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Metro-North also provides local rail service within the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx. Metro-North is the descendant of commuter rail services dating back as early as 1832. By 1969, they had all been acquired by Penn Central. MTA acquired all three lines by 1972, but Penn Central continued to operate them under contract.
Metro-North Railroad rolling stock. The Metro-North Railroad is a commuter railroad serving northern suburbs of New York City. It principally uses a fleet of electric railcars for its services; diesel locomotives and push-pull coaches are in use as well for non-electrified portions of the system.
Number of vehicles. 2,429 commuter rail cars. 6,418 subway cars. 61 SIR cars. 5,725 buses [1] The Metropolitan Transportation Authority ( MTA) is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area of the U.S. state of New York.
MTA Names New Metro-North Railroad President - Trumbull, CT - The head of the MTA says Joseph Giuletti, most recently of the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority, takes over "at a ...
Traffic & Transit MTA Unveils New And Improved Nanuet Metro-North Station The upgrades were dedicated in memory of Orrin Getz, the former vice chair of the Metro-North Railroad.
toward Chatham. Wakefield station (also known as Wakefield–East 241st Street station) is a commuter rail station on the Metro-North Railroad 's Harlem Line, serving the Wakefield section of the Bronx, New York City. The station is located on East 241st Street and is the northernmost stop in New York City on the Harlem Line.
In 2015, 257 Metro-North Railroad employees made more than $200,000, according to payroll data recently added to the Empire Center for Public Policy’s transparency website, SeeThroughNY.net.
Retirement and replacement. The M2s, M4s, and M6s were replaced, retired, and scrapped between 2012 and December 2018 as new M8 railcars entered service. In May 2014, Metro-North retired the bar cars, with the last one departing Grand Central Station on May 9.