Metro North New Haven Line Penn Station Access

Trains Magazine Transit
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A friend sent this for general circulation, and I converted it from pdf to multiple jpgs

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# Metro-North Railroad Celebrates 40th AnniversaryRailroad Grows the Region, Enhances Safety, Service and Infrastructure
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Did they mean “access to Grand Central for New Haven Line customers”? It would come as a shock to me to think that traffic across the Hell Gate Bridge hasn’t been going into NYP all these years – many years, in fact, prior to 1983…

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AFAIK MetroNorth has only served GCT, and never Penn Station since its 1983 startup. In passenger service, only Amtrak used the Hell Gate route.

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New Haven and Penn Cental periods, only trains to-and-from Boston plus one from Montreal, from-or-to (mostly) Washingto, Philadcelphia,or Pittsburgh used that bridge. Alkl NY-area suburban trains and all other trains having the City as Terminal used GCT.

But PC did revise New Haven prasctice by having a much higher percent of Boston service through to Washington, with GG1s to ande from New Haven.