Metro-North West Haven Station to open Aug. 18

The parking scramble officially begins this week for access to the new West Haven Station on Metro-North Railroad’s New Haven Line, in anticipation of the station’s opening for service on Aug. 18.

Grand Central’s “Grand Centennial Parade of Trains”

An impressive assembly of historic passenger railcars spanning the heyday of luxury rail travel, as well as examples of contemporary railroad technology, will be on display together for the first time at the “Grand Centennial Parade of Trains” weekend May 11-12, 2013, at New York City’s Grand Central Terminal.