Northbound Train - Southbound Ship
Nine minutes after shooting train number 31 I lensed this one, number 32 out of 54 trains I ultimately photographed in the span of 4 hr 45 min here at Dobbs Ferry.
Metro North train 4761, a Friday only 5:36 PM out of Grand Central Terminal that makes no stops until Greystone then all stops until its scheduled arrival at Croton-Harmon 59 minutes after departing the city. The train consists of a six car set of old Budd built M3As of which 142 were built for Metro North in 1984-85 as part of the second to last cars ever produced in the company's famed Red Lion plant in Philadelphia
This is MP 20.5 as measured from Grand Central Terminal on modern day Metro North's Hudson Line, the four track former New York Central water level route which traces its history here back to 1849. In 1913 the NYC installed third rail electrification through here as far as Harmon, 33 miles north, a system that remains to this day.
Today this route is astonishingly busy with over 150 MNCW trains passing this point on weekdays with electric MUs operating as far as Croton-Harmon and diesel powered trains to Poughkeepsie, 73 miles north. In addition another 22 Amtrak trains pass to and from points as far flung as Burlington, VT, Montreal and Toronto in Canada, and Chicago. Lastly rounding out the parade is a nightly CSXT road freight between Selkirk Yard near Albany and Oak Point Yard in the Bronx.
A dozen miles down river can be seen the George Washington Bridge and less than twenty miles away are the high rises of Midtown Manhattan. At right steaming down river is a big freighter, the Bam Despina a Marshall Islands flagged vessel built by China Shipbuilding in 2009. It's a dry bulk carrier 592 ft long with a beam of nearly 98 1/2 ft and a summer deadweight capacity 35,727 US tons.
Village of Dobbs Ferry
Town of Greenburgh, New York
Friday June 20, 2025
Northbound Train - Southbound Ship
Nine minutes after shooting train number 31 I lensed this one, number 32 out of 54 trains I ultimately photographed in the span of 4 hr 45 min here at Dobbs Ferry.
Metro North train 4761, a Friday only 5:36 PM out of Grand Central Terminal that makes no stops until Greystone then all stops until its scheduled arrival at Croton-Harmon 59 minutes after departing the city. The train consists of a six car set of old Budd built M3As of which 142 were built for Metro North in 1984-85 as part of the second to last cars ever produced in the company's famed Red Lion plant in Philadelphia
This is MP 20.5 as measured from Grand Central Terminal on modern day Metro North's Hudson Line, the four track former New York Central water level route which traces its history here back to 1849. In 1913 the NYC installed third rail electrification through here as far as Harmon, 33 miles north, a system that remains to this day.
Today this route is astonishingly busy with over 150 MNCW trains passing this point on weekdays with electric MUs operating as far as Croton-Harmon and diesel powered trains to Poughkeepsie, 73 miles north. In addition another 22 Amtrak trains pass to and from points as far flung as Burlington, VT, Montreal and Toronto in Canada, and Chicago. Lastly rounding out the parade is a nightly CSXT road freight between Selkirk Yard near Albany and Oak Point Yard in the Bronx.
A dozen miles down river can be seen the George Washington Bridge and less than twenty miles away are the high rises of Midtown Manhattan. At right steaming down river is a big freighter, the Bam Despina a Marshall Islands flagged vessel built by China Shipbuilding in 2009. It's a dry bulk carrier 592 ft long with a beam of nearly 98 1/2 ft and a summer deadweight capacity 35,727 US tons.
Village of Dobbs Ferry
Town of Greenburgh, New York
Friday June 20, 2025