One of the twelve Budd SPV-2000s purchased by Connecticut DOT in 1980 for Amtrak New Haven-Springfield service but soon shifted to Metro North commuter assignments steps across the Naugatuck River... (more)

Metro North FL9s in two color schemes head up an inspection train southbound along the Naugatuck River at Beacon Falls, CT, on MN's Waterbury branch. The cars are MN's former Lackawanna observatio... (more)

Northbound Waterbury train 1916 crosses the Naugatuck River trestle in Ansonia during winter storm Reggie.

CDOT GP40-2H 6697 leads Metro-North deadhead train 1169 west through Stratford on an unseasonably warm Friday afternoon in February. Once the train arrives in Stamford, the crew will change ends a... (more)

CDOT BL20GH 130 heads northbound train 1924 out of Ansonia on a snowy Tuesday afternoon.

Mini-bomb trains on Metro-North's Waterbury Branch are usually led with the locomotive on the north end. Occasionally, they can be found leading south, opening up a number of photographic location... (more)

A pair of Connecticut DOT FL9s in New Haven paint pause at the South Norwalk, Conn., station.

A Waterbury Branch train rounds the curve approaching the old Naugatuck station. The original depot is no longer used by the railroad, just beyond the building a small platform was constructed for... (more)

A southbound New Canaan Shuttle makes a stop at the Springdale Employee Stop. Metro North has an "offsite" materials warehouse in Springdale with this employee stop as it's closest rail ... (more)

A northbound New Canaan Branch train crosses over Old Stamford Road in Talmadge Hill on its way to the train's last stop, New Canaan.

The first through train direct from Grand Central Terminal arrives at the end of the line in Danbury after a long work day.

Arriving for pickup in Stamford, before heading in to the Connecticut interior.

This is quite literally the end of the line for Metro-North, as Waterbury is the most distant of their stations from Grand Central Terminal, 88 miles away. This train looks much more like it belo... (more)

If you spend any time along Metro-North's New Haven line, a goodly percentage of what you'll see is this. Happily, the first of 300 brand-new M8 cars should be on the ocean as I type this, bound ... (more)