![]() ![]() Fare recovery, which just over two decades earlier was close to breakeven, was now running about 30 percent-and those figures were just numbers on the surface. On-time performance system-wide was a sad 80 percent, though decent considering the operating issues. Oh, the MNR ran- but barely, with old equipment lacking parts, worn infrastructure, shortages of tools, an absentee top management, and no vision or direction toward the future, neither service-wise nor functionally. 1, 1983, when this new, roughly 400 mile railroad was an unwanted appendage of Conrail and several other eastern commuter operations, all suffering from years of deferred maintenance and attention. Today, little resembles MNR’s rag-tag beginnings on Jan. Included also was legal responsibility over New York State portions of New Jersey Transit’s rail operation. Metro-North took over what had been Conrail’s commuter-dedicated division, the Metropolitan Region. ![]() Initially, the upstart MNR struggled, but in time would thrive to become the second largest commuter railroad in North America, closely following in size its sister, MTA’s Long Island Rail Road (LIRR). 1, 1983, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Metro-North Railroad (MNR) was born.
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