Employee Holiday Train On The Hudson. MTA Metro-North Railroad MNCW 214 (MNR "Employee Appreciation"/40th Anniversary) and MNCW 211 (New York Central Heritage/40th Anniversary) are bracketing the 2024 Employee Holiday Train, as seen on Thursday, December 12, 2024. This year, three New York Central cars on loan from the United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey. On the afternoon of Tuesday, December 3, 2024, the train traveled from Grand Central Terminal to Poughkeepsie on the Hudson Line, stopping at Croton Harmon and High Bridge along the way. The train is seen passing through the Garrison, New York area along the Hudson River.
North/West to South/East:
MNCW 214 (MNR "Employee Appreciation"/40th Anniversary)
Metro-North MN1 (Ex-Lackawanna [Phoebe Snow])
Metro-North MN3 (ex-New York Central coach)
URHS New York Central cars:
NYC 43 (URHX 800411, tavern/lounge)
Swift Stream (URHX 800460, slper/lounge)
Hickory Creek (URHX 800733, slper/lounge/obs)
MNCW 211 (New York Central Heritage/40th Anniversary)
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)
