The Shays express…or is it the local?

Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Chris Shays right, looks at an editorial article in a newspaper about opponent Linda McMahon shown to him by Anthony Riccio of Westbrook on a train in Madison, Conn., Wednesday, July 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

No, Christopher Shays is not joining the ranks of reverse commuters.

The prohibitive underdog in today’s Republican Senate primary did hop a train this afternoon for Grand Central Terminal, however.

The Metro-North hub strikes Shays as a target-rich environment for Wall Street types and other card carrying Republicans.

Shays boarded a train in Stamford with his wife, Betsi, for Manhattan as part of a last-ditch get-out-the-vote effort.

No word on whether drinks in the bar car will be on Shays, however.

Neil Vigdor