Pic Of The Day #2646

Posted on July 16, 2024 | 7 Comments

Nighttime freight train: Westport station (Photo/Tammy Barry)

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7 responses to “Pic Of The Day #2646”

  1. Jack Whittle | July 16, 2024 at 10:44 pm |

    It’s always a bit surreal when you see one of these go through – when all you are used to seeing are sleek Metro North commuter trains, these graffiti- filled ghost trains that only seem to run late at night are downright eerie (and really long!)

  2. Daniel Guilfoile | July 17, 2024 at 8:00 am |

    What is important is that each freight car represents a semi that is NOT on I-95. Same event occurs when you see a Cargo Freight Ship going up or down Long Island Sound. Each container on that ship, is an 18 Wheeler NOT on I-95.

  3. John Kelley | July 17, 2024 at 3:02 pm |

    I believe this train is returning to New York with empty cars that carry garbage from the city landfill sites. These cars, when unused, are parked in the Bronx off of the Hellcat bridge.

  4. John Kelley | July 17, 2024 at 5:12 pm |

    My spellcheck got me. Make that the Hellgate Bridge. If you take a train out of Penn Station enroute to New England just before sunset, you will get a beautiful view of Manhattan as you go over the bridge, with the buildings of Manhattan backed by the setting sun.

  5. John Kelley | July 17, 2024 at 5:21 pm |

    Correction 2. They are carrying garbage from New York to landfill sites in Connecticut. What freight Metro North has runs late at night so as not together into the way of passenger trains. Most freight goes up to Springfield MA and then over the Hudson River south of Albany. The Penn Central discontinued the car float service between Brooklyn and New Jersey that enabled 100+ car freight trains to pass through Westport in New Haven RR days. Traprock is also carried by rail on the ex-New Haven.