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Ahhhh...St. Paddy's Day.  Nothing makes me prouder of me Irish heritage than puddles of green vomit, and a good ol' donnybrook on a ...

October 16th :  A guy boards my train in New Haven and when he opens his wallet, I see a yellow "Post It" note glued to his cred...

Due to the recent article in the New Haven Register, I am rerunning this post which originally appeared in March of 2006: Something shoc...

"So....Where are you going tonight?" Sometimes the question doesn't even need to be asked. Take the hoards of people dressed...

Note to self:  Sometimes I'm naive. Whenever I'm walking along the tracks, I notice copious amounts of plastic water bottles fil...

  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...