Was taking the train from Poughkeepsie to Baltimore this morning and caught this Metro North loco.
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Welcome to the forum, marctrain1!
Lovely, isn’t she. If I could have imagined a 21st-Century engine with lightning stripe… it wouldn’t have been as good as this. Same for the interpretation of the classic New Haven scheme on engine 222!
There are also some Herbert Matter-style NH Heritage engines that are great. I don’t think I will ever get tired of the Genesis carbody or sound.
If anyone wants to see all six of the newer paint schemes, they are in here:
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Welcome to the Forums! Great catch! I love getting down to the station at Poughkeepsie or going up on the Walkway to watch trains in and out.
Speaking of Heritage — isn’t that the Lackawanna’s Phoebe Snow Budd tavern observation car there?
Here she is across the river in Hoboken:
Lackawanna_Tavern by Edmund, on Flickr
Built in 1949 they went to the Long Island for a while and I guess Metro North adopted them from there. Sure would like to see an HO model of them. She looks good at 76!
The last time I was at Harmon, these were common:
rr873 by George Hamlin, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
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I loved those P2s. The black E8s were great, too… but you wouldn’t believe the white smokescreen they’d throw when starting. The FL9s by and large were actually worse in the early Seventies, to the point I misunderstood how you started a train with 567s…
It sure is the car off the Phoebe Snow! They use it as an employee special, inspection train, and officer special car nowadays!
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I thought I recognized that ‘Brooklyn’ accent! I recall coming across one of Retired Railfan Horn Guy’s videos he shot in Cleveland. He kept commenting on how light it was at 8:30 pm and you guys in the western end of the time zone got it so lucky! I thought it was humorous. I do like his vids, though.
I almost, sort of, got to ride the car but it was eleven cars back and I was too lazy to go back there! I was on a Long Island express out to Montauk and the Tavern Obs was on the tail end and I was at the head end 
Fun Stuff. I do like that shade of green on the New Haven MNR 222.
Cheers, Ed
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