Today I had to head up to New Haven for an important special occasion. This is the type of trip I wouldn’t have blogged about normally but with the Metro-North Crash on Friday closing off the entire New Haven Line between Westport to Bridgeport the Train-Bus-Train Transfer that we had to deal with made this […]
Year: 2013
The Long Beach Branch is the only LIRR Branch that leaves Long Island (except for entering Manhattan Island into Penn Station), in this update I’ve made the pages for its four (one shared with the Babylon Branch) northern stations that are on Long Island proper. All of these updates are a day out to the […]
After going to the Parade of Trains last Sunday, I decided to finally ride the J Shuttle that makes just 4 stops between Chambers Street and Essex Street, it wasn’t too exciting the destination signs don’t say shuttle just Nassau Street local. Here is the short strip map waiting to leave Chambers Street: It was the usual […]
I’ve actually made 3 trips to Smith-9th Street since it reopened to photograph the great job the MTA did with the station. On my first trip I was in Downtown Brooklyn and made a point of taking a slow B57 bus from Downtown Brooklyn to Smith 9th Streets, the reasons were two-fold I thought the […]
I finally got two more on the New Jersey side written (fun fact: ), both have historic station houses, one is untouched with low-level platforms, the other had a new island platform built and a modern overpass in 2009: Perth Amboy–(109 Photos) South Amboy–(136 Photos)–with its old and new platforms Enjoy!
Today I attended (along with an estimated 40,000 other people, five times more than Metro-North expected, Didn’t Realize Trains are that popular!) Grand Central’s parade-of-trains. Yesterday I was in the area already had luckily made a round-trip on the Nostalgia SMEE Shuttle train yesterday (on track 1 using R15 #6239, R12 #5760, and R33WF #9306) […]
This is a farely tiny update on my Rockaway Ferry Trip two weeks ago I visited the final two stations on the LIRR Far Rockaway Branch I needed more current photos of (both I visited years ago). Here they are with my full text descriptions: Far Rockaway Inwood–(44 Photos) Enjoy!
For a number of weekends in February and March trackwork on the Lenox Avenue Line and the refurbishment of 149 Street-Grand Concourse made the 2 train operate in two sections: A Northern Section operated between 3 Avenue-149 Street and Wakefield-241 Street For the first 4 weekends the southern section terminated at 96 Street and reversed […]
It’s that time again, for me to start cleaning out my subway photos that I’ve taken from the past few months (a few are of the R train post-Sandy) and finally upload them to my website. This includes some photos of the R train outside (albeit out of service) and show how far spread my […]
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The last two A train stops in Inwood
Going off of yesterday’s update today I’ve finished the last two A train stops in Inwood: Inwood-207TH St–(25 photos of the station, and 76 of the artwork including most of the quotes about Inwood and the end of the A train) Dyckman St-200TH St–(54 Photos) Enjoy!