Light Rail, Heavy Rail

Above, Metro-North Poughkeepsie–bound local leaving Croton-Harmon (early 2002?). The locomotive is an FL9 which was built in the 1950s by General Motors for the New Haven Railroad. The FL9s have been retired. They’ve been replaced by Genesis-II locomotives from General Electric. At bottom , a St. Louis MetroLink train approaches Civic Center Station in April 2005. Future posts will discuss the light rail boom that is taking place across North America but is lagging in the New York Metropolitan region.