DERAILED

  The Waterbury Line has been shut down for the past couple of months and instead of trains; Metro North has been running Connecticut ...

Yes folks, we encountered a "Blue Moon" at the end of August (meaning the second full moon of the month...which is very rare.  It ...

I had to wake up a really drunk guy yesterday to get his fare. His ticket said he was going to Bridgeport, so I told him to stay awake or he...

This video should be shown as part of conductor training at Metro North.  Conductor John (my 2nd cousin) shows an abundance of patience an...

Last week, my nephew Ryan (also a conductor) was walking down the pedestrian ramp to the lower level in Grand Central when he ran across a f...

Emily, author of the " I ride the Harlem Line " blog has recently been branching out (literally) and visiting, and photographing t...

I was recently contacted by a writer for Milford Living Magazine, asking me to write my ruminations on Milford Station, and how things have ...

I worked the last train of 2010 BY MYSELF!!! In their infinite wisdom, Metro North’s planning department somehow forgot to assign me assist...

Today the New Haven Register used a snippet of a story I told here a few years ago: http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2010/11/25/life/d...

This is worse than the time I dented my wife's newly purchased RAV4. Fresh off the boat from Japan, some hooligan has already "t...

Glad to see that my Hudson Line brethren got to sample the hooliganism that's standard on the New Haven Line.

Bill, my assistant conductor and I are standing at the block in Grand Central loading our train and answering questions of the passing hoard...

We're driving my older daughter to Newport, RI to tour Salve Regina University, and about to cross the bridge into Newport when I launch...

This is the scene that unfolded in front of my wife and I, as we returned home from my "return to work" physical following double-...

I spend a lot of time bashing the ne'er do wells who ride my trains, so today I want to praise Pvt. Luis Feliciano, Army-82nd Airborne. ...

08/29: An agitated man meets my train in Waterbury and asks what the fare is to Bridgeport. I tell him that it’s only $2.25 and he looks rel...

News came yesterday of the death of bestselling author Dominick Dunne. He was of 83. Mr. Dunne had been an occasional passenger on my train,...

If you happened to be listening to the railroad radio channel at 8PM on 08/13/09, this is what you would have heard: Train 1107: Metro North...

This whole Henry Louis Gates/Officer James Crowley controversy has got me thinking about two incidents that happened to me several years bac...