This past Sunday, Sept 25, I was at the Metro North station at Stratford Ct waiting for my train to New York City. At 7:50 AM an Eastbound New Jersey Transit train came thru the station, headed towards New Haven. The consist included an NJT ALP-46 locomotive and six standard (non-powered) NJT coaches. Wish I had gotten a photo, but it caught me by surprise. Was this a fan trip, a lease of equipment to Metro North, or a train that missed the turnoff into Sunnyside Yard? Does anyone know the reason for this movement?
NJT visits Metro North
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Springfield Pete
, Sep 28 2016 12:07 PM
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Posted 28 September 2016 - 12:07 PM
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Posted 28 September 2016 - 12:12 PM
Pete, during football season at MetLife Stadium, there are Sunday through trains operated with NJT equipment to carry Metro North passengers on the New Haven Line directly to Secaucus (where they transfer to other trains to the stadium). At New York Penn Station this is a regularly scheduled NJT Northeast Corridor or North Jersey Coast Line trip, so these trains then continue to Trenton or Long Branch. Same happens after a game -- a train that had originated in Long Branch or Trenton continues beyond New York carrying football fans who board at Secaucus as far as New Haven.
So what you saw in Stamford in the early morning heading for New Haven was the NJT equipment deadheading to New Haven to begin its "revenue" run from there.
So what you saw in Stamford in the early morning heading for New Haven was the NJT equipment deadheading to New Haven to begin its "revenue" run from there.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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