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MTA transferred the station to Metro-North in 1983. On September 25, 2013, a main feeder cable that provides electricity to an 8-mile (13 km) long segment of the New Haven Line failed, causing electric train service over the line to halt.
Two possible locations have been determined for a Metro-North station in the future. One proposed location is on Pocono Road across from the Brookfield Municipal Center, and the other is on Whisconier Road on the property of the Brookfield Craft Center (which utilizes the old station building as an art gallery). [ 2 ]
Written by Lanning Taliaferro and Michael Woyton. In 2015, 257 Metro-North Railroad employees made more than $200,000, according to payroll data recently added to the Empire Center for Public ...
In mid-2012, the MTA issued a joint procurement request for the LIRR and Metro-North for a total of up to 676 M9 railcars, set for delivery between 2016 and 2020. [9] On September 18, 2013, Kawasaki Heavy Industries was awarded a nearly $1.8 billion contract for the order, comprising a base order of 92 cars for the LIRR (costing $355 million) with options for an additional 584 cars (304 for ...
Ludlow station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line, located in the Ludlow Park neighborhood of Yonkers, New York. As of August 2006, daily commuter ridership was 250 and there are 33 parking spaces.
The electrification system continued to be controlled as a portion of the ex-New Haven system until the 1987 conversion to 60 Hz operation. When the New Haven main line was converted by Metro-North to 60 Hz operation, the Amtrak Hell Gate line was also converted, but as an isolated system powered from the Van Nest substation.
The history of the Los Angeles Metro Rail and Busway system begins in the early 1970s, when the traffic-choked region began planning a rapid transit system. The first dedicated busway opened along I-10 in 1973, and the region's first light rail line, the Blue Line (now the A Line) opened in 1990.
Shoreliners are a class of locomotive-hauled rail car used by the Metro-North Railroad.They are similar to the Comet coaches used by New Jersey Transit.Ownership of the fleet is split between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and the Connecticut Department of Transportation, as part of the latter's operating agreement with the MTA.