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Wed 4 Jun 2008

New M-8 On Display at GCT

Posted by TJ under M8, Peter A. Cannito
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If you’re sitting on a Metro-North car tomorrow afternoon, and it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere, and it’s a really nice car with headrests and electrical outlets and bathrooms that, if you close your eyes, you don’t even realize they’re there, you probably got on the new demo model of the M-8 that’s on display at 2 p.m. Thurs.

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MTA Chairman Dale Hemmerdinger (that name’s a real humdinger!) and Metro-North president Peter Cannitto will be there to say a few words at track 25.

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The M-8s will be pressed into service on the New Haven line at some point next year.  

 

Fri 23 May 2008

A Peek Inside the New M8 Cars

Posted by TJ under M8, StationStops
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Our Metro-North blogger brethren StationStops has some very well-produced video taken at the New Haven Metro-North station that offers a glimpse inside the futuristic M8 cars that are slated to pop up on the New Haven Line next year.

StationStops likes the vacuum toilets, the headrests and larger windows–things us Hudson and Harlem liners take for granted–as well as outlets for charging phones and PDAs and for plugging in laptops (ah, the live-blogging capabilities!).

It’s a tidy little video that’s available in HD as well.