Electric Lights on Park Avenue. The Metro-North Railroad electric Holiday Lights Train has just emerged from the Park Avenue Tunnel portal, beginning its run up to North White Plains a... (more)

Holiday Lights Train with Kawasaki M8s stopping at the Philipse Manor station.

Electric Holidays. For the 2025 holiday season, Metro-North Railroad is operating two Holiday Lights trains, building off the success of their first such train last year. As was the ca... (more)

MTA Metro-North Railroad Holiday Lights Trains For 2025-2026 Season! Saturday, November 29, 2025, was the second day that MTA Metro-North Railroad operated an 8-car set of M8s decorated wit... (more)

Golden Gantry. Metro-North Railroad (MNR) M8 no. 9709 is the lead unit on non-revenue train 2012, seen approaching Harlem-125th Street Station on its way to Grand Central from Highbrid... (more)

New Haven Cars Near The Harlem River On The Hudson Line. As does happen occasionally, on the evening of Monday, October 6, 2025, MTA Metro-North Railroad M8s covered a run on the Hudson Lin... (more)

Kawasaki M8 decorated with holiday lights next to Metro-North's LaserTrain which is used to clean rails of leaf residue in the fall. Both were on display at Metro-North's open house at the New Hav... (more)

Night Flying Over The Flyover. A train of Kawasaki-built MTA Metro-North Railroad M8s traveling on the New Haven Line crosses the Harlem Line on the Woodlawn Flyover in the Bronx, New York,... (more)

A pair of inbound trains race each other to New York City's Grand Central Terminal early in the morning. On the left, on Track 1, is Connecticut Department of Transportation train 3505, a New Hav... (more)

Pans Down at the Portal. Operating on third rail power on this former New York Central trackage, Metro-North Railroad M8 car 9230 is the lead unit on New Haven Line train 1362 to Old Gr... (more)

At 7:15, just after sunrise following a snowfall the previous evening, Connecticut DOT train 6506 rolls into the Metro-North Harlem-125th Street Station on its way from Manhattan's Grand Central T... (more)

Metro-North's Holiday Lights Train, has just made its last stop at Harrison, on the New York City to Harrison express train.

New Year Lights. Metro-North Railroad's "Holiday Lights" train is seen stopped at Mount Vernon East Station, operating as train 6341 to Grand Central. For the 2024 holiday sea... (more)

Jingle All the Way. Metro-North Railroad's "Holiday Lights" train is seen stopped at Stamford Station, operating as train 6550 to New Haven. For the 2024 holiday season, M8 no... (more)

Rainbow Lights For All Of The Holidays. The day after Thanksgiving, MTA Metro-North Railroad released an 8-car set of M8s (9260 and 9248 bracketing) decorated with lights and a special holi... (more)