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Found this on facebook today from The Empire State Passengers Association.

Amtrak towed in an SLE set of M8's into Penn this evening. Image via Mariano Hernandez on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/groups/20858103850/permalink/10160805827543851/?mibextid=Nif5oz So they were checking for clearances? To be honest I'm not sure why. They were moved to Arch Street after this...

Amtrak towed in an SLE set of M8's into Penn this evening. Image via Mariano Hernandez on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2085810 ... tid=Nif5oz

"Metro-North Dual Mode Locomotive Equipment as of 6-14-22: Metro-North and Siemens have closed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) stage, and have moved to Final Design Review (FDR). Siemens has started the process of submitting FDR documents to Metro-North and they are under review." From...

Feels weird that they'll actually be starting service on it tomorrow. If I wasn't sick, I'd love to railfan along the route to catch how things go.

This program supposedly went up in smoke. But there is ample room at Patchogue to install a north platform. As is room to realign west of the station, pull that yard lead out, and double track to Y. With this work completed Patchogue would be capable of hosting a 10-12 car A & B platform. And t...

I've been scolded in the past to "butt out" on these type of threads. However, after 25+ years of reading these "What if fantasy conjure threads" doesn't it get old? It will not happen. Look at the GC East Side project major delays, and tens of others in the last 5 decades. (The...

It's a shame that there are so many varied equipment incompatibities with transit in this region. It's crazy that you say that, because the plan appears to be that Amtrak, LIRR, and MetroNorth are going to be standardizing on Siemens ALC42e chargers. All of the chargers will include battery backup....

I'll keep in touch, many of us moved away from the Northeast. Just having to raze the stations really hurt. My heart, soul, memory, and detail went into it, and hopefully a new one that I can construct will be even better. After all, I have twenty-four wooden LIRR MU cars with the magnetic connecti...

What really needs to be looked into is service from LI express to Poughkeepsie hitting the same stops Amtrak empire service does where you can stay on one train, if they are going to be talking combined operations. A diesel electric dual mode and some decent coaches to be pulled by it. Even if it's ...

Saw some new info today from NGEC. They are calling the new dual modes the ALC42e. Metronorth and LIRR variants will have third rail shoes and will be certfied for 80 in that mode. The state equipment might end up with a hybrid passenger car with a catenary pickup and battery packs for any gaps. All...

Today's fleet availability was: DE30- 24 Locomotives Owned - 11 Available DM30- 21 Locomotives Owned - 16 Available C3- 134 Cars Owned - 119 Available M3- 122 Cars Owned - 0 Available M7- 836 Cars Owned - 662 Available M9- 110 Cars Owned - 104 Available That's a crazy amount of cars not available. ...

So these are the cars that Athearn used as prototypes for their Blue Box cars. I always wondered about that.

Has anyone heard about an update for this? Have any cars been shipped off property or is this being done on the property? I am looking forward to this because I'm hoping it's succesful for Oyster Bay and possibly Port Jefferson, or even Babylon to Patchogue. This would free up the diesels for increa...

Whatever happened to the plan to upgrade the line West of Schenectady for 100mph service.