West Haven

  • Amtrak 137 Catches the Glint at West Haven.

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    Brian Solomon’s Tracking the Light is a Daily Blog discussing Railway Photography. Another set from the old school: On January 29, 2016 at West Haven, Connecticut, I exposed a series of Fujichrome color slides of Amtrak train 137 (Boston to Washington)…

  • Westward Shore Line East at West Haven—Nice Light but too Much to Caption!

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    I used to say that with Conrail operations you needed a score-card to figure out what was going on, and by the time you figured out there was too much information to put on a slide mount. It hasn’t become…

  • Take a Spin on Metro-North; West Haven to Grand Central Terminal.

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    On Thursday December 10, 2015, my father and I traveled on Metro-North to Grand Central Terminal. West Haven, Connecticut is a modern station with long high-level platforms that opened just a few years ago. Grand Central remains as impressive as…

  • I Thought I Saw A Ghost Train at Metro-North’s West Haven Station.

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    Sometime last summer, I read a press release proclaiming something to effect that Metro-North’s New Haven Line electric service was now completely operated with the new Kawasaki M8 multiple units, and that all of old Metropolitan cars had been withdrawn….

  • West Haven, Amtrak Acela Express

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    On January 10, 2015, it was a roasting 15 degrees F when I exposed an image burst with my Canon EOS 7D of the passing Acela Express train 2251 (Boston-Washington DC). West Haven is a relatively new station on Metro-North. It…