NORTH WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Metro-North Railroad has completed the sixth in its series of locomotives honoring Metro-North’s 40th anniversary, this time honoring the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Dual-mode locomotive No. 222, a P32Ac-DM, sports the green-and-yellow design used on New Haven electric and diesel cab units until 1955. The engine joins previous wrapped units honoring New York Central, Penn Central, Conrail, as well as Metro-North employees. When the series began, Metro North said there would be up to five heritage locomotives [see “News photos: Metro-North introduces …,” Trains News Wire, May 16, 2023].
A Metro-North post on Facebook says the railroad decided to give the locomotive a new identity during refurbishing, and that test runs for the locomotive will begin shortly.
— Updated at 4:15 p.m. CT with additional photos and information.
It looks very good. More heritage paint schemes would be nice.
Would have been a touch of class to renumber the unit as 0222, dovetailing the NH practice for diesel and electric power while steam was still on the property. The original green units had a “0” prefix number until all of the steam locomotives–conventionally numbered–were retired.
Great point, Arthur!
It’s so good to see all the New Haven fans on this forum, sixty-six years, one month and three weeks after the railroad ceased to exist. Probably none of the Metro North workers in the photo were even born when the New Haven was absorbed into Penn Central in that infamous shotgun marriage,(I was 22 years old.)
What’s long lost to history is that the New Haven was a real railroad, in the sense of carrying freight as well as passengers. I remember the big freight yard in Providence and the smaller freight yard at Readville (Boston). I remember boxcars in Norwood sidings off the now-abandoned Wrentham branch and in Westwood off the NEC main.
Would you look at that!! You actually CAN make a P32 look awesome!!
Now do the orange w/pin stripes from the late 40’s.
The green and gold is awesome!
This is OTT Excellence!
I’m not a big fan of these new GE P-32AC-DMs (is that what their model name is?) and not as aesthetically appealing as the old Alco DL-109s or PA’s, but this is a really nice paint scheme and nice to see them honoring the heritage of the New Haven RR.
Wow! Always a fan of MNCR but this is over the top. Wish Pete was still around to see this.
I didn’t hate the McGinnis scheme, but the green and yellow with the herald was the BEST!
The original streamlined paint scheme of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad is a beautiful tribute by Metro-North Railroad. The NYNH&H Railroad should have never replaced the scheme with the abstract McGinnis paint scheme while in its cash-strapped status.
I never liked the McGinnis paint scheme applied to both New Haven and Maine Central.
I think you meant Boston and Maine, Penelope. Good post!!!!
Looks great. Again, would’ve been great if the SEPTA Heritage Units could’ve gotten some coverage from Trains 🙂
I’m not much of a fan of modern passenger train locomotives, but that sure does look snazzy! 👍
Best heritage locomotive yet! As good as all the others added together!
The New Haven had a large number of liveries, all of them awesome. I know this mostly from books and magazines. I’m old enough to have seen, but not old enough to remember, any but the last. From the photos, my favorite would have been the orange with silver pinstripes.
Wow. Is there a locomotive out there that DOESN’T look good in that scheme?