I have recently spotted a Metro-North Rail Locomotive (#4905) in Fort Worth TX and a New England Central Rail Locomotive in Dallas (#3859). I believe these are both owned by the State of New York Transportation Authority. I am wondering why these would be here, included with a UP freight train.
New England Central is owned by Rail America. Metro North Commuter RR is a unit of NYMTA.
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Rail America routinely shifts power among its various shortlines, so New England Central power is probably being re-assigned to another property. I’m unaware of any Metro-North power by that number.
The Metro North unit may have been a GP40PH or a variation thereof sold to some one in the southwest, like Trinity Rail. A bunch of NJT and MN units went west to NRE, but were marked NEX (?) back in November and may have found homes.
Metro North Commuter Railroad is part of the Tri-State Transportation Pact (N.Y.,N.J., CT) to serve New York City (MTA, ConnDOT, LIRR, NJT). Trains run east of the Hudson River into New York from New Haven, Waterbury, Danbury, Brewster , Poughkeepsie, etc. Untill last year, a good number of trains were pulled by the X New Haven FL9s, some in Metro North colors some in New Haven colors. During the rebuilds, the ones paid for by the State of Connecticut, were required to be painted in the “as delivered” New Haven colors. They have been retired, sold?
Anything moving into the city from CT has to be able to run under electric power to GCT.
Metro North 4905 is a unit just Rebuilt at NRE its one of the NJT pool locomotives that Metro North has for west of Hudson services on Port Jervis line and Pascack valley line.
All 10 unrebuilt units will be rebuilt and renumbered from 41** series to 4900 > 4914 this renumbering includes the 4 already rebuilt F40’s and 4 just purchased F40’s from NJT.
see: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=155278
And no the Connecticut painted units are not sold or retired there are 6 FL9m’s and 4 P32acdm’s still in service with the CDOT McGinnis scheme.