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Rockies Region Transit Adventures

A Pleasant First Class Flight to Salt Lake City to a Flight to Nowhere Above Fogged in Jackson Hole

I leave the UnitedClub at 1:10 and find out my next flight is in the F Gates. this is the new international terminal. I take the train out there to the airy modern terminal that only opened a couple of years ago. I go up to the gate agent, show him my long receipt with my reconfirmed […]

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Transit Adventures

An Easy Trip to LGA for a delayed Delta Flight to Atlanta, Making for an 19 hour day to Jackson Hole

Greetings from the UnitedClub in Atlanta where I shouldn’t be (I should be airborne for Salt Lake City) Well I’m off on another Ski Trip using a Mountain Collective Pass that will see me going to Jackson Hole, followed by Alta Snowbird, the train to Squaw Valley and then flying home from San Francisco. What […]

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Amtrak Metro-North

Bridgeport, Westport, Green’s Farms – 3 more down the New Haven Line

This is an update also mostly with pictures from October, extending the New Haven Line a couple more stops down the line, and rebuilding the most important station between Stamford and New Haven. Here are the 3 new stations: Bridgeport–(rebuilt with 54 new photos)   Green’s Farms–(52 Photos) Westport–(rebuilt with 56 Photos) Enjoy!

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Amtrak

Northampton and Greenfield Amtrak’s Two Newest Stations

Yesterday, I road the inaugural Amtrak train to stop in Northampton and Greenfield on my Last Train via Palmer, First train via the Knowlege Corridor Trip I ran off the train onto crowded platforms in Northampton and Greenfield. Today I made starter station pages. Making proper visits to the stations is on my list on my […]

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Amtrak Transit Adventures

The Inaugural Northbound Vermonter Backing out of Springfield with Company Cars and Shuttle Train #475 to Metro-North Home

I decide to bail on the Vermonter, spending the extra $22 to buy a ticket on Shuttle Train #405 in an hour to photograph the northbound train backing out. I walk through a very crowded Springfield Station–(40 Photos), and walk south down Main Street trying to get along the Connecticut River. Downtown Springfield has major problems […]

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Amtrak Transit Adventures

The Crowded First Vermonter to stop in Greenfield and Northampton down the Knowledge Corridor

I have a nice morning with my cousins including their couple of young children who all decide to drop me off at the train station. We arrive maybe 20 minutes early. An older woman immediately comes out from the new Vermont/Connecticut River Valley tourism office behind the station welcoming us to wait inside there. She […]

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Amtrak Transit Adventures

The Last Vermonter via Palmer and Amherst to Windsor, VT (4 Minutes late because of the Amherst Platform Party)

Introduction and the electric Vermonter ride north from New York-Penn Station to New Haven. The train leaves New Haven–(14 Photos), two minutes late (at its weekdays departure time) at 1:25pm and were through the open-trench of New Haven. 1:30 – Officially curve off the Northeast Corridor. 1:37 – Alnex Wallingford plant. Then the Trackside Brick oven […]

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Metro-North Transit Adventures

Riding the Rerouted Vermonter: Starting on the Last Vermonter via Plamer and Amherst – An ACS-64 pulling a cab car

Introduction: In early December Amtrak and the state of Massachusetts announced that Monday, December 29, 2014 (earlier than I thought it might be, having read January 2015 as the default date) would be the first date of service along the rerouted Vermonter route via the Knowledge Corridor via new stops in Northampton and Greenfield, with […]

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Long Island Rail Road

The East and West Ends of the LIRR Main Line

Today’s update has two parts. First I finished the last two stops on the Greenport Shuttle, mostly with photos from my late October To Rhode Island via Long Island trip Greenport–(71 Photos) Southold–(32 Photos) Today I also decided to go for a walk, deal with the tourists, and finally explore the portion of the High […]

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Amtrak Long Island Rail Road

Finishing Riding the Long Island Railroad to Rhode Island

Merry Christmas! Well, regular life got in the way of the SubwayNut this past November and December, with a far too over committed second semester of graduate school. I finally finished yesterday. I am now starting on a month off for winter break and have a bunch of stuff I’m anxious to get up on […]