I work for Metro North Railroad. Metro North took over New York Central in 1983 so since its been in operation for 30 years, we are losing ALOT of people starting this year due to retirement, thus creating Metro North to go on a hiring spree. Its definitely not a bad place to work, no matter what craft you're in. They have awesome benefits and decent pay. It took me about 9 months from application to date of hire so its not an instant hire kinda deal. Here is the link below for anything in the MTA.....
http://www.mta.info/mta/employment/
They put new jobs up all the time so if you're interested, check the site out frequently. Any questions, feel free to PM me, I'm more than happy to help anyone out.