How do people get accidentally hit by trains? You might ask – cause, you know, you can see them coming from a mile away. Not always. This video is an example of just how fast and quiet a train can come up on you, and how the engineer really cant do anything but blow his [...]

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Evidentally MTA just fixed an issue with the MetroCard machines where they were taking money out of people’s accounts, but not giving them cards – for two days! According to MTA, the money will reappear in your account if you were affected – riiggghhttt….. I guess the MetroCard machines work similarly to the recent fare [...]

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You would figure that, running a Metro-North blog, I would be on top of a story about the new M-8 car prototype being unveiled at Union station today, but truth be told I had NO CLUE. And as far as I can tell, not many other news organizations knew either. I looked on Governor Rell’s [...]

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Here is the video where Jodi Rell was in earshot of her rail yard project going well overbudget lonngg before she said she was aware of it:

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Lots of you know the secret of Track 61 at Grand Central, which houses the custom train car built for FDR so he could be transported beneath the city without exposing the public to the extent of his Polio disability. Today’s Matt Lauer examined the mystery of Track 61 for the Today Show: Via Trainjotting

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The Stamford Advocate reports that a replica of the new M-8 Metro-North train cars which are scheduled to go into service very slowly beginning in late 2009, is enroute via a slow boat from Japan. When it arrives, people will be able to sit in the cars, watch the doors open and close, and be [...]

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The Danbury News-Times reports a woman who was struck by a Metro-North train in Danbury at 7 PM Monday appeared to have deliberately stepped or jumped in front of the train. Amazingly, the woman survived and was rushed to Danbury Hospital, where her condition was unknown, reports the Danbury News-Times.

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