The first-ever Metro-North trains from New Haven through Westchester and to the Meadowlands football games went off without a hitch, although not that many sports fans were on board.

In all, 328 passengers rode the double-decker NJ Transit trains brought onto Metro-North tracks by Metro-North crews.

“It was not a full train, but it’s just the beginning,” Metro-North spokeswoman Marjorie Anders told me. “You have to start somewhere.”

More than half the riders — 197 — took the second train, the one ridden by former Jets wide receiver, who was brought in by Metro-North to pump up the publicity. It left at 10:18 a.m.

The first train, leaving at 9:17 a.m., carried 78 passengers. The last, leaving at 11:03 a.m., held 53 passengers.

Anders said the passengers were happy with the service, and told that to the various news organizations who reported on the experimental service.

“They did my job for me yesterday,” she said. “They really did.”

It was a historic moment for Metro-North, as well as NJ Transit. I didn’t ride the trains, but I stood on the platform at Larchmont at 6:25 a.m., awaiting the usual red line train, when a NJ Transit train cruised north on a central track, headed for New Haven. It was a strange sight, the double-decker cars finished in steel with a swath of blue, red and orange down the middle.

Metro-North doesn’t use double-deckers because they can’t get into Grand Central Terminal. That wasn’t an issue for the football trains, which curve off the Metro-North line onto Amtrak tracks just south of New Rochelle, to head toward Penn Station.

Anders rode the train herself, and got a look at the Amtrak line where Metro-North would someday like to run some trains for commuters. That service, if it comes to be, could include creating three new stations in the Bronx. So Anders was thrilled to see two old station buildings, abandoned, but still standing, left from a time when stations existed there.

“What I saw was fabulous,” she said. “They were there, and we want to put them back.”

The football service will run for nine more Jets and Giants games, all of them with 1 p.m. Sunday kick-offs. Find out more about the service here.