PRR Metroliner Coach /Snack Bar EMU Car

The front end of one of the few remaining Budd built Metroliner EMU's (Electric Multiple Unit). This single powered coach/ snack bar passenger car... (more)

Metroliners usually ran with 4 car sets, but holiday traffic has some trains running with 6 car sets, as seen here, minutes before arriving at Penn Station in New York City.

Southbound thru Linden, NJ

An observant couple, wearing the bell-bottom style pants of the day, is waiting on the next southbound train as a northbound Metroliner kicks up a dust storm. Car 887 was built by Budd with GE eq... (more)

Metroliner car 884 startles my cousin on the train platform with its melodious multi-chime horn. (Every Metroliner we had seen before had the standard shrill 2-chime horn.) This car was eventual... (more)

A northbound Metroliner rips by the junction with the Delmarva Secondary. Lead car no. 885 was eventually rebuilt into coach no. 44556.

A GE-equipped car, not yet repainted but rebuilt with equipment moved to the roof, is southbound at Bel Air Avenue. The Metroliners had a shrill 2-chime horn, which really got your attention. Un... (more)

A southbound set of Westinghouse-equipped unmodified Metroliners bumps across the Bel Air Avenue grade crossing at 100 mph+. The small building on the left was the local taxi stand.

The red-orange-blue nose treatment of the Metroliners was certainly eye-catching. Note the third car on this southbound train, which has been rebuilt to move equipment to the roof out of the dust... (more)

With mere inches to spare, an Amtrak Regional flies past a set of platform extenders at Princeton Junction, NJ traveling at well over 100 mph! The platform bridges were set up in 2014 to cover t... (more)

An Amtrak Metroliner speeds through Elizabeth while an eastbound NJDOT local is stopped on the other outside track.

A yard crew gives a hand signal to slow and then stop after clearing the circuit. They'll wait for a favorable signal to shove this ex-Metroliner, now Conference Club car up into the Coach Yard. ... (more)

Six days before Amtrak would take over most of the remaining intercity passenger service in the US, Penn Central southbound NYC-Washington Metroliner 109 cruises through a reverse curve north of M... (more)

The tail end of an Amtrak Metroliner car whips around the super elevated curve at Claymont, DE en route to Philadelphia, PA. Long gone are the wood ties and jointed rail as seen in Don Oltmann's ... (more)