This Trip was taken on October 8, a week ago The Reason for the Trip: I’m currently writing a paper for my History and Theory of Urban Planning class on Crossing Long Island Sound: The Never-Built Crossing. A trip I’ve been thinking about doing for a long time is the LIRR to Port Jefferson, the […]
Author: Jeremiah Cox
I know I’m dashing to the opposite side of the country from yesterday’s update but this was one of those attempted updates that I started this summer and never quite finished. It’s finishing the Hudson Line north of Westchester. An area with some of the most spectacular scenery visible from train everywhere. Especially with the […]
I’ve been working on and off for months on getting the San Jose are VTA Light Rail up on my website. The sprawling county means its one of the least successful lines in the country and one of its two branches even runs just every half-hour during weekday middays: Evelyn–(17 Photos) Whisman–(16 Photos) Middlefield–(16 Photos) […]
I’ve finally written up the last 3 stations to Gladstone on the Gladstone Branch that I took on this March 2013 Weekend Trip when the line was using Dual-Mode Locomotives because the catenary into Hoboken was still being repaired: Gladstone–(36 Photos) Peapack–(70 Photos) Far Hills–(45 Photos) Enjoy!
This summer I got out to the last two stops I was missing on the NJT Gladstone Branch. I didn’t get around to writing a full post about the day (a simple Hoboken to Morris Plains, and doubling back to these final two stations on the Gladstone Branch): Bernardsville–(49 Photos) Basking Ridge–(42 Photos) Enjoy!
I think the title says everything, the Piedmont can join the ranks of the Hiawatha, Amtrak Cascades, Capital Corridor, and San Joaquin with every station photographed and on the web: Salisbury, NC–(72 Photos) Kannapolis, NC–(46 Photos) Charlotte, NC–(60 Photos) Enjoy!
I’ve been working on the website quite a bit lately, just haven’t had anything substantial to update. Here are the next three stations in North Carolina from my Amtrak trip there in July. Burlington, NC–(65 Photos) Greensboro, NC–(86 Photos) High Point, NC–(72 Photos) Enjoy! There should be more soon.
This post is the second half of 433 Miles on 3 Coastal Trains Home From Rockland, Maine To get home the final jaunt down the coast from Boston, the 12:10pm Acela in First Class at the low-bucket $109 price is too tempting to pass up with 4 First Class upgrade coupons I might as well use […]
This post is part 1 of 2 of 433 Miles on 3 Coastal Trains Home From Rockland, Maine We leave our house at about 10:10, so I can drive the first 48 miles down Route 1 to Searsport to start my long coastal journey. As we near Searsport we we pass a railroad track and […]
Greetings from my extended family’s house in Downeast Maine, on the mainland near Acadia National Park. I’m here because I drove my Brooklyn grandmother up from New York and we stopped to visit my Great Uncle in Manchester by the Sea–(43 Photos) where I did a photo essay of the commuter rail station. Yes I […]