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NYC Subway

Upload: The Last 3 Stations of the Upper East Side

In this update I finish what I started in my update two days ago using photos I took yesterday. The last 3 stations of the Lexington Avenue Line north of 59 Street, these ‘easy’ stations served by a single line that take a lot less time to make than complexes: 103 Street–(12 photos of the […]

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Transit Adventures

An Unlimited Ride Day Mostly in Midtown Finishing Up More of Those Photo Essays

Today I had access to an Unlimited and swiped it 15 times basically getting more of Midtown Done. The day started in disappointment: I was planning to take the M98 downtown since my most important destination was the Upper East Side but I got to the stop one minute after the schedule claimed the last […]

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NYC Subway

Upload: Some of the Upper Lexington Avenue Line

Generally I don’t like making updates of sections that become discontinuous but as I was midway through this one and realized that the 3 missing stops I really need to revisit which I will due tomorrow. So here is half of the Upper Lexington Avenue Line that will soon be connected with the Queens section […]

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NYC Subway

Upload: the Columbus Circle Station Complex with over 125 photos (and 72 St/CPW))

Well I think the title says all that is in this update: I’ve spent basically a day working on 59 Street, a transfer complex that I have photographed every nook and cranny of (just in June, but some photos from the archive of the stop under reconstruction) and am quite proud to finally be presenting […]

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Amtrak Transit Adventures

A Slightly Late End to my Lake Shore Adventure, and Upload: the 3 Amtrak Stations From My Trip

Well after my mid-trip Lake Shore post on Friday the delays got worse due to a freight train ahead of us with a defect and we got to Utica an hour late before a stop outside of the platforms in Albany when the train was divided with the cars in darkness before pulling into the […]

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Transit Adventures

Greetings From the On-Time Lake Shore Limited and Making Progress on the CTA

Greetings from the Lounge Car of the for once On Time Lake Shore Limited! Well over the course of my three days I got quite a bit of the CTA done, getting the entire Pink, Brown, and Loop photographed along with the southern half of the Red and Green Lines, and the Skokie Swift, the […]

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Transit Adventures

Me and My Bike on the Carl Sandburg

This post I just realized I never actually uploaded (from my iPhone typed on my bluetooth keyboard). About 5 minutes late at 7:34 the lights of a locomotive much to my surprise with Superliners. The Consist of Train #382, The Carl Sandburg: P40 Locomotive #86 Superliner Coach #34080 Diner-Lite Conversion Dining Car #37000-just used for […]

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Boston Transit Adventures

Greetings from Kewanee, IL

After adding Boston in full last Tuesday night I was off Wednesday morning to fly on Frontier Airlines to Des Moines, Iowa to ride the second half RAGRAI to Davenport before I biked the rest of the way with sattlebags to here: where I am waiting for the Carl Sandburg (equipped with a bike rack […]

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Boston

Upload: The Rest of the Red Line, Some Old and Some New Stations

In this update I present the rest of the red lines route as it goes over the Charles River on one of the most scenic short stretches of the T (Charles/MGH) to a just beneath the surface subway through Caimbridge that opened in 1912, to the second newest section of subway in Boston, the 3 […]

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Boston

Upload: The Quadfecta of Transfer Stations Beneath Downtown Boston

Well Boston is finally almost fully here and done, in this update I present 4 stations over 7 pages of the Square formed by the 4 Boston Subway Lines beneath downtown Boston and are the busiest stations on the system: Downtown Crossing (Red line)–(7 photos) Downtown Crossing (Orange Line)–(15 photos) State (Orange Line)–(26 photos) State […]