CONRAIL’S CAST-OFF COMMUTERS: 1 30 YEARS OF METRO-NORTH
ABOVE LEFT: A train of New York Central ACMU’s (air conditioned, multiple unit) cars passes a former New Haven FL9, both decorated in modern Metro-North colors at 125th Street Station in June 1989. LOU GERARD PHOTO ABOVE RIGHT: A difference of decades illustrates the evo- lution of the Metro-North locomotive roster at Danbury, Connecticut. FL9 2016 (built in 1957) meets successor P32 228 (built in 1998), while F10 410 (built in 1946, rebuilt 1979) compares notes with P32 206 (built in 1995). PHOTOS BY OTTO M. VONDRAK
four year restoration began on the Park Avenue Viaduct in 1995. The viaduct is a vital elevated structure than runs from the mouth of the tunnel at 96th Street all the way up to the Harlem Riv- er lift bridge at 135th Street.
NEW YORK POUGHKEEPSIE CT. NEW YORK CITY New Hamburg to Binghamton
Otisville Tunnel
PORT JERSVIS LINE Otisville Middletown PORT JERVIS Middletown/Town of Walkill
Cornwall/Salisbury Mills Campbell Hall
Goshen
Main Line abandoned 1984
Monroe Beacon
Moodna Viaduct
Graham Line service began April 1983
Harriman
AMTK- Amtrak CNYK- Central New York Railroad CR- Conrail CSX- CSX Transportation DLW- Delaware, Lackawanna & Western ERIE- Erie Railroad HRRC- Housatonic Railroad LI- MTA Long Island Rail Road NAUG- Naugatuck Railroad NS- Norfolk Southern NYC- New York Central NH- New York, New Haven & Hartford MN- MTA Metro-North Railroad NJT- NJ Transit PAR- Pan Am Railways PRR- Pennsylvania Railroad PW- Providence & Worcester SLE- Shore Line East
Tuxedo Sloatsburg Suffern
SPRING VALLEY Nanuet
Breakneck Tunnel
Cold Spring Garrison Manitou
Peekskill Cortlandt
Croton-Harmon Ossining Tarrytown Pearl River
PASCACK VALLEY LINE
Yonkers Riverdale
Meadowlands Secaucus Jct.
to Washington, DC Stadium
Spuyten Duyvil Met Life
Shop
N. White Plains White Plains
Scarsdale Mt. Vernon W. Woodlawn
Harlem-125th Street Fordham
HOBOKEN PENN STA.
New Rochelle High Bridge Yard
Yankees-153rdStreet
GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL to Montauk and Greenport
Port Chester Mamaroneck Metro-North Railroad
Map illustration by Otto M. Vondrak ©2013 Carstens Publications, Inc. Not an official map. Not all routes and stations shown.
Greenwich Stamford Shop
Harmon Shop
Dykemans Southeast
Brewster Croton Falls No PassengerService
Goldens Bridge Katonah
Mt. Kisco Chappaqua Pleasantville NEW CANAAN Merritt 7 So. Norwalk Cannondale Wilton Hopewell Jct. BEACON LINE No PassengerService
Harlem Valley-Wingdale Appalachian Trail
Pawling Patterson
to Pittsfield New Milford to Plainville HUDSON LINE
New substations were built along the Hudson and Harlem Lines to improve electric service along those routes in the 1980s. Systems were also beefed up to handle longer, more frequent trains. When Metro-North took over in 1983,
to Albany
Extension to Wassaic Opened 2000
Dover Plains HARLEM LINE
the New Haven Line was still largely dependent on the ancient 1906 Cos Cob power plant to energize the overhead wire from New Haven to Woodlawn. The railroad switched over to a com- mercial power supply in 1988 allowing
to Chatham WASSAIC Ten Mile River Torrington
WATERBURY Shop DANBURY Bethel Seymour Redding Branchville NEW HAVEN LINE Bridgeport
Fairfield Metro Devon
Fairfield 0 5 10 MILES Milford
Electrified Lines Non-Electrified Lines
15 20 S Ansonia
Derby-Shelton State St.
Shop NEW HAVEN
West Haven (To open 2013)
(NH) LE/PW to Boston Newtown Naugatuck Beacon Falls to Springfield
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AMTK/CSX (NYC)
NEW YORK CONNECTICUT
NAUG (NH)
PAR (NH)
MN/NS (NYSW) (ERIE)
MN/NS (ERIE)
AMTK (NYC) Park Ave.
MN/PW (NH)
MN (NYC)
NJT (ERIE)
(ERIE)
Hudson
River
CR (NYC)
MN/PW (NH)
(NS)
MN/PAR (NH)
CNYK
MN/CR (ERIE)
NEW YORK NEW JERSEY
NJT (ERIE)
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NJT (DLW)
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