Metro-North

Harmon Shop & Yard Earn The MTA Chairman’s Safety Award

6 days ago the Metro-North issued a press release to announce the recipient of the 2007 MTA Chairman’s Group Achievement In Safety Award. Here is the full release courtesy of the MTA: The 450 men and women who work in the Maintenance of Equipment Department at the Harmon Shop & Yard and in Poughkeepsie have […]


Metro-North Increases Seating Capacity On Port Jervis Line

Last Monday, the MTA’s Metro-North issued a press release to announce an increase in seating capacity on multiple Port Jervis line trains. Here is the full press release with details courtesy of the MTA: MTA Metro-North Railroad is adding cars to six Port Jervis Line trains, three in the AM peak and three in the […]


Metro-North Sets Ridership Record

Metro-North train about to pass through Melrose station; Resized photo courtesy of Eye On Transit 12 days ago the MTA released a press release about the Metro-North setting a ridership record in 2007. The record was set due to ridership exceeding 80 million customers for the first time in the railroad’s 25 year history. Here […]


Some People Never Learn……

So it is time to go on a tear & catch up with all the transit news from the last few weeks. Lets start with the accident that briefly shut down service on the New Canaan Branch on New Year’s Eve. A Metro-North train clipped a van at a crossing shortly after 9 a.m. Here […]


Metro-North Finalizes A Collective Bargaining Agreement

In the last piece of Metro-North news for Tuesday December 11th, the MTA announced that the Metro-North has finalized a collective bargaining agreement with the Association Of Commuter Railroad Employees Division 166. Here is the full press release courtesy of the MTA: Metro-North has reached agreement with the last of its 19 bargaining units, the […]