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 […]
Year: 2011
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]