Metro-North Harlem Line Timelapse - Grand Central to Southeast

Ride the majority of the Harlem Line in a matter of minutes. We head from Grand Central to Southeast, making local stops from White Plains and beyond. The ride took one hour and twenty minutes in realtime, but has been shortened to about six and a half minutes.

The astute observer will notice that some things might not look "quite right"... this was captured not from the cab of the train, but from the rear, and the footage reversed.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• train
• metro north
• grand central
• southeast
• harlem line
• time lapse

[3253Gman]

For a split second, I wondered why we passed a red at the end of the platform (and then several more!)... Then I realized that it must have been filmed out the back and then played in reverse... THEN I realized it was written in the full description. For just a minute I thought I was incredibly observant and/or intelligent...

Either way, VERY cool video.

[mtaHarlemLine]

@3253Gman No, you are actually observant, for noticing the backwards train - and for noticing I actually wrote that in the description :P Doing it from the back is relatively easy, but I did have an engineer flip out at me when I tried to do it from the front once.

[trainman1971]

Awesome! I did a video from the front of an M3 train from GCT to Southeast back in 2004 and one from the front of an M2 train from GCT to New Haven back in 2000. Too bad I wasn't digital yet back then....

[LIRR175]

You should make all of MNR's electric territory before the M2/M3A retires!

[WestEndExpress]

some music would be nice

[transitRus]

why is the train on the opposite track.

[cbattz]

excellent u should make more!

[gregorygrice]

Nice! How did you hold the camera up for so long?