Here’s a thread for the Long Island Railroad, Metro-North, New York & Atlantic and New York City Transit Authority fans.
Have to say I love the MN Genesis engines done up in New Haven’s McGuiness scheme. LIRR’s new doulbe deckers and M7s look pretty sharp too. I miss the old GP-38s and FL-9s though.
Rumor has it that Connecticut’s M-8s will have all the various power systems to operate on Amtrak into Penn Station and east on New Haven. It has seemed odd to me that Shoreline East operates diesels under the wires. They could have leased some old AEM-7s instead of the Amtrak P40s or whatever they got. Those M-8s will be here in 2008 at the earliest, they say.
Shore Line East commenced operations before Amtrak electrified the route, which explains the diesels. They have a rather eclectic motive power roster for such a relatively small operation.
Food for thought: LIRR invented the concept of hub-and-spokes (at Jamaica) before the Wright Brothers made their first flight.
The thread should be expanded to CDOT also… those McGinnis scheme engines are not Metro North units, they are State of CT units in the equipment pool.
Still a few FL-9’s running around on the CT shuttles, and those have to be my favorite engines from my childhood. I remember my earliest railfanning on the Waterbury branch where I grew up and the various FL-9 units that would come through, with the old Bombardier cars (mostly red stripe I recall)…All I remember are the CDOT FL-9’s in their original New Haven McGinnis scheme, and whenever a MN Beachball FL-9 came on it was like a treat – something different, but still an FL-9.
Well CDOT does jointly operate Metro-North with the MTA, so why not expand the thread?
Thats is not a Rumor… The M-8s will be able to run on the North End of Amtraks NEC …
You might see M-8s between NLC and NHV in the near future Stay Tuned!!
Saw some odd equipment on a siding off the LIRR’s Ronkonkoma line just west of Bethpage. They looked like very short well cars, maybe 20’ long at the most and had a point for a trailor hitch to be conected. They each had individual knuckle coupler (as opposed to drawbars). They’ve been there for as long as I’ve ridden the LIRR.
On a side note, I also saw an oil tank painted up like a giant Coors Light can outside Wyandanch.