| Welcome
to Metro North Railroad. This is an unofficial fan site, designed to be an informative
guide to and photo showcase of Americas second largest
railroad. We thank you for visiting. To navigate the site please
use the links above. Additionally you may use the quick links
bar at the side. To go straight to the photos, click "Lines"
above and then choose the one you want. MTA
Metro-North Railroad is the second-largest commuter line in the
United States, providing more than 240,000 customer trips each
weekday and some 71,800,000 trips per year. A subsidiary of the
MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority), Metro-North was
founded in 1983, when the MTA assumed control of Conrail
commuter operations in New York and Connecticut. Metro-North
traces its antecedents back to the New York & Harlem Railroad,
which began in 1832 as a horse-car line in lower Manhattan. It
currently has a fleet of better than 950 cars and engines, 384
route miles, and 775 miles of track.
Metro-North goes
to 119 stations distributed in seven counties in New York--Dutchess,
Putnam, Westchester, Bronx, New York (Manhattan), Rockland, and
Orange--and two counties in Connecticut--New Haven and
Fairfield. The Hudson Line extends 74 miles from Grand Central
Terminal to Poughkeepsie; the Harlem, 82 miles to Wassaic; and the New Haven,
which also has three branch lines--the New Canaan, Danbury, and
Waterbury--72 miles to New Haven. The Port Jervis Line runs 95
miles from Hoboken to Port Jervis, with 30 of those miles in New
Jersey; the Pascack Valley Line extends 31 miles from Hoboken to
Spring Valley, 25 of those miles being in New Jersey. |
