NEW YORK — Metro-North’s latest heritage locomotive, honoring predecessor New York, New Haven & Hartford, will make its operating debut on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, the commuter railroad has announced.
The locomotive will debut on train No. 1841, a 7:51 a.m. departure from Danbury, Conn., arriving at Grand Central Terminal on 9:55 a.m.
“The Heritage Series honors and educates Metro-North customers about the railroad’s rich history,” Metro-North President Catherine Rinaldi said in a press release. “We hope our customers enjoy the addition of the vintage colors of the then New Haven Railroad and that the new locomotive sparks some curiosity about the predecessor railroads that paved the way for Metro-North.”
The locomotive was announced last week [see “News photos: Latest Metro-North heritage unit …,” Trains News Wire, Feb. 21, 2025]. Its design, with colors described by Metro-North as Olive Green and Dandelion Yellow, was used on New Haven locomotives until 1954. It joins a heritage fleet launched in May 2023 with a locomotive wrapped with the original Metro-North design. Others honor Conrail, New York Central, Penn Central, and Metro-North employees.
Well done Metro-North! Naturally, this gorgeous locomotive must have fascinated the members of the New Haven Railroad Historical and Technical Association.
Dr. Güntürk Üstün
Sometimes I have wondered if some of our younger readers, or readers further afield from New England, know anything about the New Haven. Well, now they do.
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I come from a family of diehard Red Sox fans and diehard New Haven fans. I didn’t much care for the baseball team but fortunately embraced the railroad.
Grew up in Conn. Remember the New Haven very well. It always had a little bit of everything.
Remember that the former New Haven Railroad, with its proud and colorful history, was also very appreciated by Hollywood between 1936 and 2000.
Dr. Güntürk Üstün
Awesome looking unit, very simple clean looking lines on this heritage livery. Great job Metro North.
Very nice!! The color scheme is great and the lettering on the front looks really sharp.
Spectacular look for this majestic GE P32AC-DM.
Dr. Güntürk Üstün
That looks like a unit that the original New Haven people would have predicted as a “futuristic” locomotive. What a great looking locomotive!
This motor in this photo looks a lot like the old “mother of all electric freight locomotives” the GE EP-4 “Yellow Jacket” Freight Motor, that used 11,000 volt single phase A.C. overhead catenary (or 600 volt D.C. from third rail inside NYC tunnels.) They had a continuous rating of 4000 HP which made them brutes of the early 40’s to late 50’s Electric freight era… and were the cab/carbody equivalent of the fames GG1’s that came later. Nice looking unit…