Today, almost all of the original rotary converters have been replaced, but one has been kept for historic reasons, seen in the photo at the top of this article. In the book Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America, writer Sam Roberts offers that Grand Central could have been a target but as I Ride the Harlem Line documents, neither the reports from MI5 or first-hand accounts by the spy ring’s own members mention it. While there were spies in America focused on destroying infrastructure, there is no contemporary evidence as of yet that Grand Central, or the M42 basement specifically, was a target. The railroads started to merge when profits fell after WWII, but it was not until 1983 that the MTA took control of the railroads rebranding them once again, this time with the name Metro-North. The rail lines in use now can trace their roots to three separate train systems that were in operation at the turn of the 20th century: The New York Central Railroad, the New York and Harlem Railroad, and the New Haven and Hartford Railroad. The current iteration of the Metro-North Railroad is the result of hundreds of years of transit history in New York. Under the operation of the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), Metro-North carries close to 300,000 riders a week and 87,000,000 riders a year along its 787 miles of track, making it the third busiest commuter railroad in North America behind the Long Island Railroad and New Jersey Transit. With 5 separate lines and 124 stations throughout New York City, the Hudson Valley, and Connecticut, the Metro-North Commuter Railroad is responsible for bringing tens of thousands of commuters to and from the Big Apple everyday.
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