Greenwich Time reports that MTA has been searching Ebay for critical electrical parts for its M4 trains as part of a rehabilitation program similar to the one which boosted reliability of the aging M2 trains, which will begin to be replaced by the new M8 trains late next year.
The parts in question are massive [...]

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Metro-North Schedule changes take effect this Sunday April 6.
We figured since we have a static Metro-North Schedule like the ones on the little station-specific leaflets at GCT, that we would do like MTA and wait until Monday to do the schedule change to avoid confusion.
Check the MTA Schedule form for next’s weeks schedule changes or [...]

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The new Yankee Stadium Metro-North stop to go online in 2009 is posing some logistical challenges to scheduling, reports LoHud.com’s ‘Going Places’:
Left: Say hello to your new seatmates on the way home from work. They appreciate you making the extra slow loop-stop so they can share your hour-long ride home.
“The station, which will become [...]

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In Canton, Mass tuesday afternoon a CSX Freight car loaded with lumber rolled off a side track onto a main line for 2 miles, colliding with a stopped MBTA Commuter train with over 300 passengers on board.

Dozens of passengers were sent to local hospitals, most with minor injuries, none life-threatening.
The commuter train was stopped by [...]

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photo: WNBC
An LIRR commuter train derailed at Jamaica Station in Jamaica, Queens, after striking another train this morning at 10AM, suspending Eastbound service until 10:56 AM.
The 9:35AM from Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn due in Hempstead left the tracks after hitting the 9:34 from Penn Station to Huntington.
There were 150 people on each train. LIRR Spokeswoman Susan [...]

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Train pictures are usually more of a rail enthusiast thing - and although that isn’t the focus of our blog, I certainly don’t mind serving up a train photo or two for our crossover readers.
(Warning - as some of these links which follow are to unmoderated Usenet content, some may be Not Safe For Work [...]

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Not surprisingly, New Haven MetroNorth commuters are least satisfied with their train conditions - by a large margin - compared to their Harlem and Hudson counterparts.
New Haven riders gave their cars a 72% in the 2007 satisfaction survey, an improvement over the 68% of 2006.
However, Harlem and Hudson riders give their trains 98% and [...]

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