Metro North named Cars

Named Metro North Cars

Daniel Case

Jaap van Dorp

and

Mary Donch

Omitted numbers have no name

MTA Owned Cars-Blue Band Red denotes cab car Blue denotes west of Hudson Car			CT DOT Owned Cars-Red Band Red denotes cab car
Number	Name	Comment	Number	Name	Comment
6101	Storm King		6201	The Connecticut Yankee
6103	Half Moon		6203	The Danbury Hatter
6105	Tear of the cloud		6205	The Nutmegger
6107	Clearwater		6207	The Coast Watcher
6109	Scenic Hudson		6209	The Charter Oak
6111	The Maria Mitchell Comet		6211	The Constitution State	C1
6113	Senesqua Flyer		6213	Candlewood Lake
6115	The Knickerbocker		6215	The Birmingham
6117	Sugar Maple		6217	Yankee Doodle
6119	Manitoga		6219	The Husking Bee	C2
6121	Ichabod Crane		6229	The Sleeping Giant	C3
6123	American Eagle		6230	J.P. Morgan	C4
6150	Eleanor Roosevelt		6232	Harriet Beecher Stowe	C5
6151	Henry Hudson		6234	Uncas	C6
6152	Poughkeepsie		6236	Cedar Hill	C7
6153	Dutchess		6238	Eli Whitney	C8
6154	Cold Spring		6240	Governor John Trumbull	C9
6155	Washington Irving		6250	Governor John N Dempsey
6156	Beacon		6251	Mountain laurel
6157	Westchester		6252	Governor Ella T Grasso
6158	New Hamburg		6253	Nathan Hale
6159	Putnam		6254	Governor Raymond E Baldwin
6160	Garrison		6255	Noah Webster
6161	Thomas Wolfe		6256	Bethel
6162	Peekskill		6257	P. T. Barnum	C10
6163	Thelonius Monk		6258	Branchville
6164	Montrose		6259	Charles Ives
6165	John Cheever		6260	Redding
6116	Crugers		6262	Wilton
6167	Raven’s Way		6264	Norwalk	C11
6168	The Mahican (Mohican?)		6266	Cannondale
6169	Thomas Cole		6268	Fairfield County
6170	Empire State		6270	Governor William O’Neil
6171	The Water Level		6272	Roger Sherman
6172	The North Star
6173	Cortlandt ? High Tor ?		6274	The Brass City
6174	Matthew Vassar		6276	The Naugatuck valley
6175	Working Class Hero		6278	Beacon falls
6176	Samuel Morse	M1	1691	Mark Twain	C12
6177	Shad Run		1693	The Yankee Clipper	C13
6178	George Clinton	M2	1695	The Connecticut River	C14
6179	Bannermans Island
6180	Robert Fulton	M3
6182	Salisbury Mills Cornwall
6184	James Fennimore Clinton
6186	Nelson Rockefeller
6188	Sojourner Truth*
6190	Commode Vanderbilt

COMMENTS

MTA Owned Cars

M1- Formerly named as Sloatsburg

M2- Kept same name
M3- Formerly named as Middletown

* Might be called Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Update appreciated.

Connecticut DOT Owned Cars

C1 – Wrecked. Waterbury Branch.

C2 – Wrecked 2007 at Devon. Ex Shore Line East Cab Car 1687. At Stamford for heavy repair July, 2008
C3 – Ex Shore Line East Cab Car 1697

C4 – Ex Shore Line East 1614

C5 – Ex Shore Line East 1616

C6 – Ex Shore Line East1640

C7 – Ex Shore Line East 1642

C8 – Ex Shore Line East 1644

C9 – Ex Shore Line East 1646

C10- Ex bar Coach

C11-ex bar Coach

C12- Shore Line East cab
C13- Shore Line East cab

C14-Shore Line East cab

Some information provided by Ed ohms, retired, formerly of Fleet Management

last revised 12/24/09

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