Charging into Daylight.
Metro-North Railroad (MNR) P32AC-DM no. 229 leads a Poughkeepsie-bound Hudson Line train out of the Park Avenue Tunnel, entering muted daylight due to wildfire smoke in the air. The locomotive is owned by the Connecticut Department of Transportation, and sports a paint scheme in the McGinnis style of the New Haven Railroad. The New Haven formerly ran in to Grand Central Terminal, so this same scene played out daily over many years, with EP-2's, EP-3's, EP-5's, and FL-9's bearing McGinnis colors.
With three lines radiating north out of Grand Central Terminal plus service to Port Jervis on the former Erie, Metro North covers a wide swatch of New York's northern suburbs with varying terrains.
