As Trainjotting visitors know, we’re big fans of the monthly Metro-North mouthpiece Mileposts (second best alliteration you’ll see all day). We were a bit surprised to step onto the 8:16 headed for GCT today and see a copy of it, as we’d already seen the March issue, and April wasn’t due for several weeks.
Then I looked closer, and saw that it was actually Outposts–”a publication for MTA Metro-North Reverse-Peak Customers.”
Turns out it’s a quarterly publication that’s been around for like a decade, an MTA spokesperson told me. What was a publication geared towards reverse commuters doing on the Manhattan bound train, one wonders.
What was particularly interesting was that half the issue was en Espanol. To wit:
Los cambios de horario de abril le traen mas servicios expresos cuando usted mas los necesita 9y seguoro que eso es aun mejor que las flores que le traeran las lluvias.
(Sorry, our Spanish is limited to asking for two beers at American-friendly all-inclusive resorts in Mexico and the Dominican Republic.)
I assume the Spanish is for all those investment bankers making the reverse schlep to Stamford.