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Transit Adventures

A Round-Trip on the New Jersey Shore Beach Express for a Station-to-Station Bike Ride

The best time to plan a day photographing the southern diesel shuttle end of the North Jersey Coast Line (not including rush hour) is during a Summer weekend when the frequency of the Shuttle trains increases from roughly every other hour to hourly to  accommodate the influx of beach goers. In addition this year there […]

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Rockies Region

FrontRunner South, Provo Amtrak and all my Utah Photos from my February trip

I realize that the update everyone is excepting is of Metro-North at Grand Central Terminal. It isn’t next, I need a break from the intensity of the complex New York City Rail Terminals. These past few hot, humid days in New York with the start of summer put me in the mood to process photos […]

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New Jersey

Upload: NJT Secaucus Junction, Matawan, Hazlet, Little Falls and closed Great Notch

My trip through Secaucus on Wednesday for Senator Lautenberg’s Funeral Train inspired to finally make me write up his rail station and give my website all four of the major rail station hubs in North Jersey. So without further ado: Frank R. Lautenberg Secaucus Junction Rail Station (at Allied Junction)–(Rebuilt with 138 new photos) and a […]

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New Jersey Transit Adventures

Senator Frank R. Lautenberg’s Funeral Train At His Station

I think the title tells all about my adventure today to stop at the Frank R. Lautenberg Secaucus Junction Station to pay my respects to a great public transportation leader as he was transferred from motorcade to train at his namesake station for a very short ceremony with the New Jersey Transit Police Honor Guard, and only his […]

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Transit Adventures

A Port Jervis Line Train Ride to Tuxedo and a 50 mile Bike Ride Home via Some More Stations

Today I decided it was finally time to go and get some more rail stations on New Jersey Transit except by using my bike to get between far apart stations instead of walking like I normally do. The original plan was to go with my bike and get every station on the Morristown Line between […]

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NYC Subway

The Grand Central Subway Station is here (only with 2011 and earlier photos)

Getting the subway stations at Grand Central up to my website is something I’ve been trying to finish for quite a long time. It was one of those stations that two years ago I had mostly written but then got frustrated with trying to figure out the exact entrances to the Lexington Avenue station. This […]

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NYC Subway Superstorm Sandy

Rockaway Park to Wash. Hts.-168th St aboard the S (first passenger to enter and leave Beach 105 St) and R1-9s

I finished my last Rockaway Here We Come! (Again) post yesterday on the platform at Rockaway Park waiting for the first revenue service departure. The R1-9s ran this route in regular revenue service although they bypassed all stations from Howard Beach to Euclid Avenue. I road from Broad Channel to Euclid, taking the first two Shuttles […]

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NYC Subway Superstorm Sandy

Rockaway Here We Come! (Again)

June 28, 1956: Today, for the First Time Since Sandy: As of Noon today the subway is fully an officially back with service to every station! The MTA reopened the line in style sending out the Museum train first full of dignitaries (from the MTA and FTA, no elected officials bothered to show up) from […]

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NYC Subway

Upload: Vernon-Jackson and Hunter’s Point Avenue

I’m again finally getting to the few subway station’s I’m missing. This update is off the two underground stops on the 7 Line in Queens: Vernon Blvd-Jackson Av–(45 Photos), what is strange about this streetstair? Hunters Point Av–(38 Photos of the Station and 4 of artwork) Enjoy!

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NYC Subway

The Fully Connected Court Square Complex

Time for another meaga-complex that I hadn’t quite finished on the subway or expanded, this time its the Court Square Complex with the in subway connection finally opening from the G to the 7 train in 2007. The underground IND portion was one of the earliest station’s I had written so the discriptions throughout the […]