I've always wanted to visit Metro North's Croton Harmon shop. Sad that I never got the chance. So many reasons why Metro North is the best MTA operated railroad. Having an open house to the public is one of those reasons. Another great video, Tim.
Great video. And thanks for explaining the difference to the clueless out there the difference between a terminal and a station. Coming up the Empire Connection , it looks like north Philly .
My uncle was an engineer for Metro-North Railroad in the 90’s and took me to Croton Harmon’s Open House. I had fun seeing the FL9 and the other locomotives they had there 😊
17:47 Very cool. I've always been intrigued railroad tracks and switches and the work done by maintenance of way. 20:53/ 21:13/ 23:52 Just gorgeous! Love them M3A! Fantastic piece of American railroading equipment. Would love for Athearn and/or Scale Trains to make a proper HO scale of an M3 in it's original blue stripe or Metro North stripe color. 24:03 love that M3 truck and those brand new wheels. 24:10 That is my favorite of the Metro North heritage paint schemes 33:06 now that is cool. I'm sure that attracks a lot of attention from kids. 34:15/ 34:46/ 35:48 Love that they inform the public on how the railroad operates and the steps taken to ensure safety. 39:24 Loving that shot of the M3 41:32 I will say, that laser train paint job is fascinating. Excellent work, Tim. You are by far my favorite railran channel!
Wonderfully crafted & documented video presentation. A perfect way for any railfan to enjoy viewing the equipment & staff of a working commuter railroad. Great use of your archived action shots to compliment the items showned at the open house. Well done, sir! Thank you for sharing with your viewers!
Really interesting video. Aside from the show, it was great to see all of the different equipment in use. I used to live where I could see the New Haven line trains pass by and always wanted to drive them. Then, I found out that a neighbor did just that and I told him that when he retired, I wanted his job.
Love ALL your videos. I love trains and I am trying to learn all I can about them. My ride experiences are limited, to CT rail to GC and Springfield, Ma. But, I am learning a lot via your videos. I also go to the model train show at the Big E grounds
I had gone to the open houses before the new shops were built, unfortunately I was running a garage sale that day, it was a different weekend in October. I’ll try next year. I live in Ossining and can get to it. I have a friend Rick Barr a track worker told me about it but I was already committed to the yard sale. They used to have an excursion up to the bear mountain bridge. There should be one in the pc logo dark green that’s the era I remember most that ran gg1 locomotives by where I lived in the Bronx. Watched plenty of trains growing up. Love your videos, I enjoy watching them , feel like I’m riding along.
Two things: Yes to painting the MU fronts grey and range, but add Dashing Dan. Second LIRR should get the Obs cars back during the summer for the "cannonball". Very nice video.
I manufactured the control panel faceplates throughout NY Metro for General Railway Signal, Safetran, Union Switch in the 80's and into the early 2000's.
Good day Tim, just upset cause I missed the Croton Harmon open house, how does one know when the next open house will be, were do you find this out, and also I missed the hoboken festival, thank you so much for the video.
This is probably one of the best videos I've ever seen on your channel! It's sad that I wasn't able to go to this event, though. I probably would have loved it! Also, please let us know if you ever manage to find Conductor Paul's photo on that number 214. I'm quite curious about what would happen if he was assigned to a diesel train.
I really didn’t look at the pictures because they were just so many of them and I was trying to get as much as I could there in the limited a lot of time that I had. I did notice a couple of employees on the 214 though.
Tim, do the GP40-2Hes have to travel all the way down the New Haven line to the interlocking with the Hudson Line (used for the New Haven Line Yankee Stadium Trains) to get up to the Harmon shop?
i like NJ Transit's idea of "if it ain't broke don't fix it." 4208 needing a new engine, they could've just retired it, but they decided to put in a new one instead, which will absolutely prolong the life of that locomotive for AT LEAST another 15 years.!!!
Tim, thanks, this was great. Really informative. Why do most MNCR P32’s smoke so badly and sound worse than GEVO’s? Except for the 211, of course, and rightfullly so, given its “heritage.” And thanks for the action videos at the end … a super bonus!!!!!!!!
...I was in New York this past weekend and took a train to Poughkeepsie yesterday (when this video was recorded)... I had no idea this was a thing. We did see a bunch of railfans at Croton Harmon and my dad was curious as to why. Well, now we know heh. Train trip was a little crazy. We ended up getting switched out to a different train twice before leaving grand central and having a medical emergency at Ossining leading to our train sitting there for 15 minutes. In the end we learned 230 was leading us so we got something out of that (As far as I know, that's the only heritage unit with a Penn Central badge on it. Correct me if I'm wrong on that). I may have missed this one but there's one happening in Ivy City with Amtrak that's happening in November that I will be attending.
Well of course they do. It’s like a garage for a car; all vehicles need storage and maintenance facilities for when they need servicing and when service stops for the night
Yes. That's correct 💯 percent. The charger locomotives for metro North railroad is going to replace all the p32Ac genius. The M9AS will replace all the M3AS on the Metro North.
The M9AS for metro North to replace all the M3AS. Another thing to the Metro North railroad is also getting the chargers locomotives to replace the metro North genius and the new Haven chargers. Long Island railroad M9S is 100 percent stocked with the dubble deckers M7s M3S . I'm just letting you know.
The M9As will replace all the M3AS on the metro North. The M7AS got replaced by the former EMD M series that was the former new York central back in the 60s . In the early 70s the M series EMD was giving a paint sceem silver and blue 🔵 MTA paint sceem.
@@3985uprr Its also cool that the man helping the kid operate the door at 33:21 I know personally and he helped us get into this. I couldnt thank him more
Caught my little guy and me at around 23:30. Great video!
I was their yesterday myself. I spotted myself a couple of times in your video! Thanks for sharing!
How did folks learn of this event, I would have loved to attend but didn't know anything about it.....
I've always wanted to visit Metro North's Croton Harmon shop. Sad that I never got the chance.
So many reasons why Metro North is the best MTA operated railroad. Having an open house to the public is one of those reasons. Another great video, Tim.
Tim,
Thanks for the great tour for those of us that couldn’t be there in person.
Great video. And thanks for explaining the difference to the clueless out there the difference between a terminal and a station. Coming up the Empire Connection , it looks like north Philly .
For someone who unfortunately missed out on this, thanks so much for sharing!
i was at tarrytown the same day, rode the cdot liverry 230
When is this usually take place? Is there a page or schedule?
211 is beautiful. What a great video. I love NS NYC HU also. 105 is a nice closing catch. Thank you for sharing!!
My uncle was an engineer for Metro-North Railroad in the 90’s and took me to Croton Harmon’s Open House. I had fun seeing the FL9 and the other locomotives they had there 😊
My wife’s uncle was employed there back in the 70s. In 1976 he gave me a tour of the old shop then a cab ride in an FL9 to GCT and back. Great day!
Used to go growing up! Glad to see that they brought this back.
Fascinating event!! Changed from RDC to EMU here many years ago.
Thanks Tim😀👍👌
17:47 Very cool. I've always been intrigued railroad tracks and switches and the work done by maintenance of way.
20:53/ 21:13/ 23:52 Just gorgeous! Love them M3A! Fantastic piece of American railroading equipment. Would love for Athearn and/or Scale Trains to make a proper HO scale of an M3 in it's original blue stripe or Metro North stripe color. 24:03 love that M3 truck and those brand new wheels.
24:10 That is my favorite of the Metro North heritage paint schemes
33:06 now that is cool. I'm sure that attracks a lot of attention from kids.
34:15/ 34:46/ 35:48 Love that they inform the public on how the railroad operates and the steps taken to ensure safety.
39:24 Loving that shot of the M3
41:32 I will say, that laser train paint job is fascinating.
Excellent work, Tim. You are by far my favorite railran channel!
Wow. I’m incredibly envious of your visit to the open house. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for a most enjoyable and relaxing video! Your narration is spot-on and funny to boot!
Thank you brother Tim for this WONDERFUL tour 🫶🏾🫡. God bless you
You are very welcome
Wonderfully crafted & documented video presentation. A perfect way for any railfan to enjoy viewing the equipment & staff of a working commuter railroad. Great use of your archived action shots to compliment the items showned at the open house. Well done, sir! Thank you for sharing with your viewers!
My pleasure. I’m glad I still had those archive videos.
This was all an admiring and intriguing event to experience! 👍
Great video. All your vids are awesome have been watching for 3 months now . Look foward to them during this election season.
Thank you.
Really interesting video. Aside from the show, it was great to see all of the different equipment in use. I used to live where I could see the New Haven line trains pass by and always wanted to drive them. Then, I found out that a neighbor did just that and I told him that when he retired, I wanted his job.
Love ALL your videos. I love trains and I am trying to learn all I can about them. My ride experiences are limited, to CT rail to GC and Springfield, Ma. But, I am learning a lot via your videos. I also go to the model train show at the Big E grounds
I had gone to the open houses before the new shops were built, unfortunately I was running a garage sale that day, it was a different weekend in October. I’ll try next year. I live in Ossining and can get to it. I have a friend Rick Barr a track worker told me about it but I was already committed to the yard sale. They used to have an excursion up to the bear mountain bridge. There should be one in the pc logo dark green that’s the era I remember most that ran gg1 locomotives by where I lived in the Bronx. Watched plenty of trains growing up. Love your videos, I enjoy watching them , feel like I’m riding along.
Thanks much
Thanks for making this video Tim, I last attended a Metro North Open House about 1985. Lots of changes at Harmon.
Of course I was away when this came into my area. I hope they do it again! Looks awesome!
Your videos are ALWAYS TOP NOTCH!
Great Video, Thanks!
This was an epic video. I couldn’t attend because I had to work. I’m vicariously experiencing the tour. Job well done.
I saw the Conrail on the Hudson line today. That blue really pops.
Great video! Thanks for documenting this
Was a pleasure to meet you sir! I was the one with the Harper jersey on, go Phils!
Oh yes, it was a pleasure. Unfortunately, on Saturday night I had to listen to a bunch of met fans screaming in a New York City restaurant.
Two things: Yes to painting the MU fronts grey and range, but add Dashing Dan. Second LIRR should get the Obs cars back during the summer for the "cannonball". Very nice video.
Some beautiful landscape
I manufactured the control panel faceplates throughout NY Metro for General Railway Signal, Safetran, Union Switch in the 80's and into the early 2000's.
Wonderful video Tim! I caught myself railfanning in one of your clips!
it was great meeting you that saturday!
(also me at 36:15)
Awesome ❤
was there too! it was a great experience
Great video !
Good day Tim, just upset cause I missed the Croton Harmon open house, how does one know when the next open house will be, were do you find this out, and also I missed the hoboken festival, thank you so much for the video.
Oh my _god,_ they started doing the Open Houses again?! Dammit! I should've known!
208 just received a brand new prime mover a week or 2 before the Open House. It still has not run in service with it.
Didn’t know that
Great video
This is probably one of the best videos I've ever seen on your channel! It's sad that I wasn't able to go to this event, though. I probably would have loved it!
Also, please let us know if you ever manage to find Conductor Paul's photo on that number 214. I'm quite curious about what would happen if he was assigned to a diesel train.
I really didn’t look at the pictures because they were just so many of them and I was trying to get as much as I could there in the limited a lot of time that I had. I did notice a couple of employees on the 214 though.
That 5010 was a NJT Comet 3
It did look a little different from the other cab cars
I went to this event too, too bad we didn’t really get to see each other tho. I heard that you also got a selfie with a friend of mine
I did. It was some young man with his girlfriend.
@@3985uprr that was my mother 😂
Tim, do the GP40-2Hes have to travel all the way down the New Haven line to the interlocking with the Hudson Line (used for the New Haven Line Yankee Stadium Trains) to get up to the Harmon shop?
Yes they do.
i like NJ Transit's idea of "if it ain't broke don't fix it." 4208 needing a new engine, they could've just retired it, but they decided to put in a new one instead, which will absolutely prolong the life of that locomotive for AT LEAST another 15 years.!!!
They definitely need to repaint 203 genises to penn central in Black 🖤 and white.
Good video, like!
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I wish the MTA would do something like what Union Pacific did with the Big boy. Bring back the 20th Century Limited…
Tim, thanks, this was great. Really informative. Why do most MNCR P32’s smoke so badly and sound worse than GEVO’s? Except for the 211, of course, and rightfullly so, given its “heritage.” And thanks for the action videos at the end … a super bonus!!!!!!!!
Those P32’s are wearing out.
@@3985uprr Yet those LIRR EMDs soldier on!
We miss the Rs3s new York central Putnam railroad diesels.
Those trucks that you saw was for the M7AS and the M8 trucks
hi Tim nice shop facility shop @ croton Harmon you know one day I would like to pay a visit for myself as well.
So pissed I missed this, I didn't know they were still doing this! How can someone sign up for future open houses?
Keep track of mta website
Will they have another open house, or open to the public?
...I was in New York this past weekend and took a train to Poughkeepsie yesterday (when this video was recorded)... I had no idea this was a thing. We did see a bunch of railfans at Croton Harmon and my dad was curious as to why. Well, now we know heh. Train trip was a little crazy. We ended up getting switched out to a different train twice before leaving grand central and having a medical emergency at Ossining leading to our train sitting there for 15 minutes. In the end we learned 230 was leading us so we got something out of that (As far as I know, that's the only heritage unit with a Penn Central badge on it. Correct me if I'm wrong on that).
I may have missed this one but there's one happening in Ivy City with Amtrak that's happening in November that I will be attending.
That Ivy city event sounds interesting
26:45 that’s interesting because a little over a month ago I made a concept drawing of that
My favorite part was when the train entered the station
Here we go again!!!!!😀😀😀
Damn i was in sleepy hollow yesterday didn't knew was open house, where to find about this
I first found out about it on the MTA website and you had to reserve a slot
@@3985uprr once a year usually?
@@3985uprr usually happens once a year?
Nice
We literally almost ran into each other. I was the guy wearing the NH FL9 shirt at the 27:00 mark.
You just have been there in a different session. I went to the noon to 1:25 block
230
How did this get disseminated? I would have loved to attend this but wasn't aware it was happening...
Question for you RRHG; which one of heritage locomotives is the strongest? 🤔
11:20 Why does 6176 look inconceivably cleaner than the others?
looks like it just came out.
That was him and I didn’t recognize him 😭. I just saw myself
Nice video
I just saw an ad of the Pokémon game called Legend Of The Unicorn during the video 😃😃
I was at the 2:00 session
They have a shop of trains i never see that before
Well of course they do. It’s like a garage for a car; all vehicles need storage and maintenance facilities for when they need servicing and when service stops for the night
M9As MNR 2029-30 is when they're expecting them if I heard correctly?
Yes. That's correct 💯 percent. The charger locomotives for metro North railroad is going to replace all the p32Ac genius. The M9AS will replace all the M3AS on the Metro North.
@@leecornwell5632 will the Comet cars be replaced to? If so what cars?
So all MN get the cars ending in As?
The M9AS for metro North to replace all the M3AS. Another thing to the Metro North railroad is also getting the chargers locomotives to replace the metro North genius and the new Haven chargers. Long Island railroad M9S is 100 percent stocked with the dubble deckers M7s M3S . I'm just letting you know.
The M9As will replace all the M3AS on the metro North. The M7AS got replaced by the former EMD M series that was the former new York central back in the 60s . In the early 70s the M series EMD was giving a paint sceem silver and blue 🔵 MTA paint sceem.
Just like the Connecticut had the M2s M4s M6s . The M8S had to replace all the M4S M6s M2s
Why the MTA long island rail road train has sd70ace horn?
They’ve had them for a number of years
At least the Game series tie 1-1
Go Phillies 😊
8:34 what time did that train depart. I caught the one that left at 10 10
I forget the exact time, but it was between one and 145
@@3985uprr ah ok
When were you here? I enjoyed this myself
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@@3985uprr Nowhere close. I was part of the 9 AM session. I still did have a great time though
@@3985uprr Its also cool that the man helping the kid operate the door at 33:21 I know personally and he helped us get into this. I couldnt thank him more
I was there I saw Neil fieldmen what time did you go to the event I was there around 12
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@@3985uprr oh cool I saw Neil at the 12 event
Did you see a Charger in there lol.
Not yet
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great video Dave!! Wish I could have been there
Tim is my name
lol i see myself at 7:00
this is where the lirr fails railfans lirr needs to do this phillies in 5 yanks vs phillies world series