All aboard! Up front with a Metro-North engineer

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"All aboard! Up front with a Metro-North engineer"

Very cool article in the Journal News:

http://lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID.../704020339/1018

Running a train is every little boy's - and some girls' - dream come true, but what's it really like sitting in that snug cab as you pull into and out of stations all day long?

Your eyes flicker from the track and signals ahead of you to the control panel before you.

Is being a railroad engineer the kick you imagined when you laid out the wooden tracks yourself and pulled a set of colorful trains out of the roundhouse?

Going Places spent four hours with Kevin Mahoney, an engineer with Metro-North Railroad, to get a taste of what it's like to run a commuter train.