Tranquility Between Trains - A Hudson Line Impression
It's late October at Cold Spring Station, and an autumn evening's hush prevails.
A Metro North Poughkeepsie-bound train has discharged its passengers for this
Putnam County village and all that remains is a soupçon of diesel in the brisk autumn air.
There will be other Metro North Hudson Line trains calling here, including the next one
heading back to New York's Grand Central Terminal. But the tranquility will prevail for
perhaps half an hour until punctuated by a bright white headlight glossing the rails and the
crescendoing roar of a notched-up P32AC-DM Diesel Electric locomotive on the point of a
northbound Amtrak Empire Service train as it blasts through on its way to Albany, leaving only
the blur of lighted platform and station sign for its passengers to observe...
Amtrak's Empire Service trains use the Metro North's Hudson Line, merging onto it after
crossing the swing bridge at Spuyten Duyvil (*) on their way up the west side of Manhattan
from New York Penn, but do not call at stations such as this one.
©2023 Steve Ember
(*)
Amtrak Empire Service Train Crossing Spuyten Duyvil Bridge
Steve Ember
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