A third set of Connecticut’s next-generation rail cars entered service Tuesday.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, state Department of Transportation and Metro-North Railroad officials were on hand for the morning commute as the new batch of M-8 rail cars was put into service, bringing to 130 the number of train runs operating with the new cars each week.
A total of 26 new M-8s have now been accepted from Kawasaki Rail Car, Inc., and put into service on the New Haven Line.
They are deployed in three train sets — two eight-car train sets and one six-car train set with four spare cars for routine maintenance.Â
