Come Fly With Me. On the morning of Friday, November 15, 2024, MTA Metro-North Railroad Train 1831 was "linked" (Danbury speak for turned around) prior to departure for Grand Central Terminal in New York, New York. This allowed for an unusual south facing locomotive, as MNCW 211 (P32AC-DM, 40th Anniversary/New York Central heritage) is seen crossing over the Harlem Line on the Woodlawn Flyover before joining it from the New Haven Line at Woodlawn Junction in the Bronx, New York. Under normal circumstances, all locomotive/coach trains to New York City will have the cab car facing the city and P32 at the end towards the outlying terminal. The New York Central heritage unit is wrapped in the classic “l(fā)ightning stripes” design, a paint scheme that was common until (and beyond) the Penn Central merger in 1968.
