I just photographed a southbound commuter train stopping at the New Hamburg station on the MNCR Hudson River line.
I was naturally expecting MNCR equipment to show up. But the cab car was Connecticut Commuter Rail, and the engine was MTA. I believe the cars may have been a mix of CCR and MNCR.
What’s up with that?
Perfectly normal. NY State owned and Connecticut State owned locomotives and trailer locomotive-hauled and pushed coaches are all in a common pool, and any can show up on any of the three MN commuter lines.
The DC-only MUs, all owened by NY State, are all on Hudson and Harlem. THe Connecticut-owned (plus a few NY-State-owned, painted to match the Connwcticut-owned) AC-DC cars run ojmly oin the N ew Haven line and its New Canaan brach.
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A similar practice also occurs west of the Hudson. MNCR contributes a number of coaches and locomotives to the NJ Transit pool based on the former Erie lines that operate into New York State.
We have had a number of posts about the Metro-North presence on the Port Jervis trains.
The question in context here is just a little different: was the train seen on the Hudson Line going to the connection via New Rochelle, or was it purely a Hudson Line train using ‘pooled’ equipment (we routinely saw the New Haven-painted FL9s in Garrison and Cold Spring when they were running)?
I have never seen a MNCR cab car on anything but a Port Jervis train, and I can’t recall seeing one of the Metro-North locomotives on anything but one. So there might be that difference…
Again, the Hudson, Harlem, nand New Haven non-MU equipment, locomotives and coaches, are in a common pool. So Connecticut equipmwnt can be seem on Hudson and Harlem trains. This pool dows not incude west-of-Hudson trains.
There is no Hudson Line connection via New Rochelle, except a round-about non-revernue poaaible equipment move.
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