My first and probably only ride on an M3!!!

Hey guys! So this is my first ever ride on an LIRR M3, and it was probably also the only one I would take since they are retiring soon. Please enjoy this 25 minute journey because this took me a while to do :) Tags: #m3 #lirr #firstride #train #nyc #transit #newyork ‪@BrandonTheTransitExplorer‬ ‪@AlfLikesTransportYT‬ ‪@lock_mcfc‬ ‪@3amRexOfficial‬ ‪@JumboBoxGames‬ The M1 and M3 are two similar series of electric multiple unit rail cars built by the Budd Company for the Long Island Railroad, the Metro-North Railroad, and Metro-North's predecessors, Penn Central and Conrail.[4] Originally branded by Budd as Metropolitans, the cars are more popularly known under their model names, M1 (late 1960s/early 1970s cars) and M3 (mid-1980s cars). The Metro-North cars were branded under the M1A and M3A series. M3s had updated mechanical elements such as the use of General Steel GSI 70 trucks and a few other small differences. Traction motor cooling was added to the M3 at the cost of added weight which was compensated for by the use of more powerful 160 horsepower (120 kW) GE 1261 motors. Even with the extra power this created different acceleration and braking rates from the M1. While LIRR chose to mix M1s and M3s in the same consist, Metro-North chose not to and would always run with uniform trainsets. 174 M3s 9771-9944, with 9891 and 9892 renumbered to 9945 and 9946 after the Long Island Rail Road massacre (12/07/1993 the Merillon Avenue station in Garden City), were produced for the LIRR between 1984 and 1986 with 142 M3As (8000-8141) produced for Metro North, arriving between 1984 and early 1985.