Northampton and Greenfield Amtrak’s Two Newest Stations

Yesterday, I road the inaugural Amtrak train to stop in Northampton and Greenfield on my Last Train via Palmer, First train via the Knowlege Corridor Trip I ran off the train onto crowded platforms in Northampton and Greenfield. Today I made starter station pages. Making proper visits to the stations is on my list on my […]

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The Inaugural Northbound Vermonter Backing out of Springfield with Company Cars and Shuttle Train #475 to Metro-North Home

I decide to bail on the Vermonter, spending the extra $22 to buy a ticket on Shuttle Train #405 in an hour to photograph the northbound train backing out. I walk through a very crowded Springfield Station–(40 Photos), and walk south down Main Street trying to get along the Connecticut River. Downtown Springfield has major problems […]

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The Crowded First Vermonter to stop in Greenfield and Northampton down the Knowledge Corridor

I have a nice morning with my cousins including their couple of young children who all decide to drop me off at the train station. We arrive maybe 20 minutes early. An older woman immediately comes out from the new Vermont/Connecticut River Valley tourism office behind the station welcoming us to wait inside there. She […]

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The Last Vermonter via Palmer and Amherst to Windsor, VT (4 Minutes late because of the Amherst Platform Party)

Introduction and the electric Vermonter ride north from New York-Penn Station to New Haven. The train leaves New Haven–(14 Photos), two minutes late (at its weekdays departure time) at 1:25pm and were through the open-trench of New Haven. 1:30 – Officially curve off the Northeast Corridor. 1:37 – Alnex Wallingford plant. Then the Trackside Brick oven […]

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Riding the Rerouted Vermonter: Starting on the Last Vermonter via Plamer and Amherst – An ACS-64 pulling a cab car

Introduction: In early December Amtrak and the state of Massachusetts announced that Monday, December 29, 2014 (earlier than I thought it might be, having read January 2015 as the default date) would be the first date of service along the rerouted Vermonter route via the Knowledge Corridor via new stops in Northampton and Greenfield, with […]

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The East and West Ends of the LIRR Main Line

Today’s update has two parts. First I finished the last two stops on the Greenport Shuttle, mostly with photos from my late October To Rhode Island via Long Island trip Greenport–(71 Photos) Southold–(32 Photos) Today I also decided to go for a walk, deal with the tourists, and finally explore the portion of the High […]

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Finishing Riding the Long Island Railroad to Rhode Island

Merry Christmas! Well, regular life got in the way of the SubwayNut this past November and December, with a far too over committed second semester of graduate school. I finally finished yesterday. I am now starting on a month off for winter break and have a bunch of stuff I’m anxious to get up on […]

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A Cross-Sound Trip on LIRR, Metro-North and the Port Jeff-Bridgeport Ferry

This Trip was taken on October 8, a week ago The Reason for the Trip: I’m currently writing a paper for my History and Theory of Urban Planning class on Crossing Long Island Sound: The Never-Built Crossing. A trip I’ve been thinking about doing for a long time is the LIRR to Port Jefferson, the […]

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The Hudson Line in Putnum County: Cold Spring, Garrison and Manitou

I know I’m dashing to the opposite side of the country from yesterday’s update but this was one of those attempted updates that I started this summer and never quite finished. It’s finishing the Hudson Line north of Westchester. An area with some of the most spectacular scenery visible from train everywhere. Especially with the […]

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The VTA Light Rail Tasman West Extension to Mountain View

I’ve been working on and off for months on getting the San Jose are VTA Light Rail up on my website. The sprawling county means its one of the least successful lines in the country and one of its two branches even runs just every half-hour during weekday middays: Evelyn–(17 Photos) Whisman–(16 Photos) Middlefield–(16 Photos) […]

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