An Add-on day trip to Philly via the Keystone, doing the Fox Chase Line a Keystone points run from Downington and BoltBus back

Today I did another points run and more SEPTA stations trip to Philadelphia that I put onto my itinerary back from via Keystone Train Syracuse. It was a $10 addition. Im running late, and leave the house at 8:45. I get off the A train at Penn Station at 9:12. At 9:17 I’m entering the [...]

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A Short Day Trip to Philly for a Points Run on the Pennsylvania and Doing a Station to Staiton of the Trenton Regional Rail Line

Today it was time for another day trip and points run to Philadelphia. I did it with my one old railfan friend Robert so it was slightly less intense and adventurous than many of my trips with a very leisurely start for a day trip to Philly. We only booked it the night before so [...]

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A Day Trip to Philly to Finish the MFL and the Norresstown High Speed Line, Home via SEPTA to Levittown to Bus Route 127 to NJT to Newark to PATH, taking 3 hours and 45 minutes!

This is the fourt post (Post 1|Post 2|Post 3) about four trips over four days on a POH-YNY-NYP-NWK-PHL points run muli-city ticket I bought to ride VIA Cars on the Adirondack after Thanksgiving 2012 and to also get enough points for S+ status. After PATH took so long yesterday to get me home from Newark, [...]

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A Rainy Day on SEPTA before a Free Keystone Express Trip to Start an Adirondack Dome Car Spectacular

On Tuesday night I realized that the Yankees chances of making it to Game 6 of the ALCS were looking quite slim and in time for the I love NY 15% or my NARP 10% discounts, I decided it was time for my alternate and train oriented trip for the weekend. The plan, Ocean View, [...]

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A Broad Street Subway Day in Philly!

Today, me and my one railfan friend decided it was time to go down to Philly and together visit every station on the Broad Street Line. I am not at all a fan of buses but New York to Philly is one of the few rides I can tolerate since the bus is so much [...]

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A Philly Day Trip By Greyhound Express and Bolt Bus – Both Chestnut Hill Branches Complete

Greetings from the 8:15 Bolt Bus run to Newark on which I am the only passenger which feels strange. I decided to do something I’ve been meaning to do for the entire summer go spend the day on an independence pass in Philly, I hadn’t gone there to railfan since 2006, and now the day [...]

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