Rush Hour Storm Shut Down: Metro North RR: May 15, 2018
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Channel: John Horvath · 2018 · Travel & Events
Afternoon of Tuesday, May 15, 2018. Sunny day leaving my host's White Plains home. Dark arriving Valhalla, New York, train station. Up the track a swirling mass of low black clouds too thick to see the lightning thundering around. Filmed a few trains. Restored B&O Caboose parked by the station. Stream running under the station. Last train through the station, the train I used as my subject, pulled into Valhalla heading Upstate. Stayed at the station several minutes. Eventually a station and on board announcement they were going to the next stop, Chappaqua, New York, and terminating the run there. Trees on the tracks. Shot vegetation debris blowing across platform. Adventurous, wiper challenged, drive home. Called my host Bill. He was stranded at Grand Central Terminal. All Metro North trains, all lines, cancelled because of the storm. Standing room only in Grand Central. Bill overheard and joined two others outside the station calling Uber for a ride to his station. Uber charges based on demand. This fare was over $300. Whilst treking Uber the Hudson line re opened. I could have picked him up at the Tarrytown Station. Weather created filming adventure very different from my aim. Filming of Metro North usual hum of evening week day rush hour at the Valhalla hamlet train station. Bill got home at 8:30 pm.
