#Metro North Railroad

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

Trains? >:3

TRAINS :D

[mtaartsdesign]

Frances Gallardo‘s “Line to Line,” located at the 14th Avenue Bridge over the Metro-North Railroad tracks in Mount Vernon is inspired by the history of Mount Vernon (nicknamed “City of Homes”). The work depicts an abstract collage of maps based on the blueprints of the city’s original planning, grid structure of city land plots and the satellite view, overlaid with intricate lace pattern, to reinvent the idea of homes and a person’s daily route through Mount Vernon. The lines in the artwork connect elements of the city and the lines of the train tracks below the bridge.

Candida Alvarez’s “B is for Birds in the Bronx,” located at Bronx Park East station (2,5) presents a series of faceted glass windscreen panels inspired by the birds that populate the Bronx. While they aren’t always noticed, birds are present in our urban environment, filling the air with song and the sky with flight. The artist, Candida Alvarez makes the birds prominent through her use of scale and composition, placing the birds in the foreground but almost treating the birds as negative space.

Both Frances Gallardo and Candida Alvarez are featured in “no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria” now on view at the Whitney Museum through April, 2023. “Through painting, video, installation, performance, poetry, and newly commissioned works created for the show, the exhibition looks at the five years since Hurricane Maria to highlight urgent and resonant concerns in Puerto Rico.”- @whitneymuseum

Photos: Jason Mandella, Jeffrey Sturges

[paullev]

23-minute radio play, followed by 18 interview with the writer of the original short story, It's Real Life

[aryburn-trains]

One of the oldest operating cab units in the United States, Metro North F10 413 is about to reach the end of the line just out of shot. Wassaic, NY May 7, 2006

[guerrerense]

Shopped F40 por Erie Limited Por Flickr: A Metro-North "West of Hudson" F40PH rests inside NJ Transit's Meadowlands Maintenance Complex. MNCW 4907 F40PH-3C

[gorrus]

[metro-north-official]

[bigpussysopranos]

idk why but this comment on an ig reel just completely changed my perspective like wow yeah things are different

[erik-powery-for-america]

Baltimore real estate is on the rise with #Governor #Wes #Moore building new a new railroad which will be our version of the Long Island Rail Road or Metro-North.

[the-literal-kj]

SHOW THE WAY

Chapters 1-3

Written for the 2024 Good Omens Theatre Reverse Bang, with concept & stunning art by the incomparable @illustrious-slimeman!

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Good Omens fanfiction. 5k/25k words. Currently Rated M. Read it on A03.

SUMMARY: There was a point in Crowley’s life when he wouldn’t have been caught dead aboard the Metro-North Railroad commuter train bound for the hell that was Connecticut. And yet, here he was. Far enough from New York City so his reputation doesn't precede him and at his latest gig as a lighting tech, he meets stuffy, rules-following, interim-director Aziraphale.

But is there room enough in Greenwich for two drama queens?

CW: Pranks, practical jokes, quite extraordinary amounts of cussing! More tags to come.

Thank you to my betas @hakunahistata, @gaiaseyes451, @angie-words, @ines2925, & @secretlywingedphantom and to the @goodomensafterdark and @whickberstreetwriters communities for all their support!!

Excerpt:

“Bring up the house lights, if you would?” The radio crackled as he removed his thumb from the button, ending the transmission out to the Crew channel. A message that Crowley, way up as he was, still should have received. An order– no, a request from the Director. Perhaps the light jockey hadn’t heard him. Shielding his eyes with a hand, Aziraphale repeated himself. “Lights down, please? House lights up?”  A spotlight punched him directly in the smallest ribs, landing like an airhorn hits an eardrum. Aziraphale could see the barest glint of light off of Crowley’s ridiculous sunglasses shifting up in the booth. He knew he was listening, knew he had heard.  And yet the spotlight was getting brighter.

Read the rest on A03!

💚 kj

[amtrak-official]

New York is a better city than the Netherlands, a whole 25 more rail stations in just the New York Subway. We aren't even counting PATH, NJ Transit, LIRR, Metro North and the Staten Island Railroad

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

[flying-potato2]

Trainposting time (one of these Pictures is mine can you guess which?)

its the red one from metro-north railroad taken from the track 4 platform. the image has the graininess that phone cameras tend to produce

[railwayhistorical]

Night into Dawn—Bloomington, Illinois

Bloomington was a haven for EMD F-units back in the mid- to late-1970s. I ventured over there from Indiana several times to shoot the "covered wagons" of the Gulf Mobile & Ohio, sometimes in the dark. The GM&O was part of the Illinois Central Gulf by that time, but engines weren't painted quickly after the merger took place in 1972, which was fabulous for railroad enthusiasts. [I believe two of the F3s did make it into the orange and white scheme of the ICG.]

We begin this little sequence of images with a view of number 810B: it's an F3 built in 1947. This unit would be upgraded to pull commuters for citizens of Boston, as MBTA 1111. [In the end, a few of these charismatic F-units went to Boston, a few others to Metro North, but I believe others were scrapped within a couple of years from the time of these photos being made.]

Despite the lure of the Fs, I was also attracted to this wonderful SD40, a so-called Redbird. This one was built in September of 1966. Lastly, number 811b is an EMD F7 built in 1949.

I love the beginnings of daylight in the eastern sky in these latter two images. Three photographs by Richard Koenig; taken at dawn on November 21st 1976.

[aryburn-trains]

METRO-NORTH--8232 lv Irvington OB

Hudson Line local. October 31 '88. © 2014 Peter Ehrlich

[mtaartsdesign]

New artwork has arrived in Grand Central Madison’s Cultural Corridor! In her newly commissioned five-screen digital artwork, Eirini Linardaki depicts the vitality of New York City and its verdant surroundings in “Diaphanous Pareidolia.” The artist’s self-described “digital animation journey” uses scanned images of multi-patterned and multi-colored textiles sourced from around the globe to reflect the “multicultural tapestry” of the city, constructing vibrant and imaginative worlds through which subway and rail lines traverse. The central screen depicts Grand Central Terminal from its construction to its present status as a bustling underground transit hub, bookended by depictions of Metro-North and Long Island Railroad trains transporting passengers to and from the city. The collages offer panoramic views of the East River and the dynamic landscape of Long Island City, as well as the serene beauty of upstate New York.

The work is presented by MTA Arts & Design with technical support from ANC Sports.

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