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Total Confusion on the Phone with Amtrak and at Penn Station – Meeting my Grandmother on two hour late Train #280 that got a second section only a half-hour late ALB-NYP

This morning there was a derailment of a CSX grain train that delayed Empire Service Train #280 in Utica for over an hour and then it finally arrived in Amsterdam after passing through the derailment site 2 hours and 24 minutes late. I wasn’t riding the train but was picking up my elderly grandmother (who […]

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A Day Trip to Get More of the Raritan Valley Line

Well today I took my first Railfan Trip of 2013, exploring more of the Raritan Valley Line and I now have photo essays of every station between Bridgewater and Newark. What made today more ridiculous for me (and a sign of NJ Transit’s strange fares where it can be cheeper to make a stopover) is […]