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Canada Transit Adventures

A nice two days in Montreal getting half the Metro and Riding two of AMT’s Commuter Rail Lines

My two full days in Montreal were pretty much exactly what I could have hoped for except for the weather on Saturday, rainy and grey. I spent the days and early evenings being a tourist in Montreal and getting about half of the Montreal Metro done. The late evenings I spent hanging out in the […]

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Transit Adventures

Up to Montreal enjoying Ocean View after seeing TSA Screening all Baggage Boarding in Albany

The day of my main Adirondack trip on Train #69 going the entire distance from NYP to MTL arrives. I leave the house a little after 7:15 and I am on a crowded morning rush hour A train at 7:25. I get off at Penn Station at 7:55 and have to stand in line behind […]

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Transit Adventures

To Philly and into Delaware finishing the Wilmington Line

Yesterday, I realize I’ve gotten all my work done for the week and with my boss away I might as well go on a trip somewhere. It becomes a toss up between DC and Montreal. When I find out low bucket (non-14 days in advance) Amtrak fares the short way to DC are now over […]

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Amtrak Metro-North

The 3 New Havens: West, Union and State

I think the title describes all of this update, finally completing most of the Shore Line East Route and another major NEC Station: New Haven-State St–(38 Photos) New Haven–(104 New Photos) West Haven–(69 Photos) Enjoy!

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NYC Subway Transit Adventures

A Quick Trip to Ardsley-on-Hudson and Dobbs Ferry, Getting the Lake Shore with PV

Today, a nice sunny fall day after a productive morning and early afternoon working I just had to get out of the house and go up the Hudson Line. The main thing I want to photograph was the Lake Shore Limited, something I’ve done countless of times but this time I was quite curious. The […]

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Amtrak Metro-North

Update: Every Stop on Shore Line East: Branford to New London

This is one of the larger updates I’ve written recently since it covers 7 stations with 100s of photographs. Here are all 7 intermediate stops from Branford east that is every stop on Shore Line East outside of New Haven: New London–(113 Photos) Old Saybrook–(55 Photos) Westbrook–(46 Photos) Clinton–(40 Photos)–including Beach Grove Passing Madison–(40 Photos) […]

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Amtrak

Hartford, Berlin, Meriden, Wallingford are here, Completing the intermediate stops of the Inland Route and Amtrak’s Shuttle

This update is pretty much the station’s I visited on my last trip on Wednesday with Hartford coming straight out of the archive from a visit in March I had never quite written. Hartford is a station I definitely need to revisit. Hartford, CT–(48 Photos) Berlin, CT–(43 Photos) Meriden, CT–(53 Photos) Wallingford, CT–(30 Photos) Enjoy!

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Transit Adventures

Visiting West Haven and an AGR Points Run on the Vermonter and Shuttle as far as Berlin

When I headed up to New Haven last August for my Long Day Wending my Way to Rhode Island trip the conductor on the local train from Fordham to Stamford didn’t punch my ticket so in Stamford I bought a new ticket from Stamford to New Haven for $6.75 and decided to save my full […]

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Chicago

Glenview and La Grange in Metra Territory

This is a bit of an unusual update but one I’m making to try and get all the Amtrak stations I can on the website. It is 3 stations in Metra territory, the Chicago Commuter Rail system that I’ve also written a rudimentary home page for: Glenview–(24 Photos) La Grange Road–(60 Photos) Stone Avenue–(51 Photos) […]

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Amtrak

Amsterdam (Station Closed) and Utica-Union Station

I’m still figuring out how I want to write up the Adirondack Scenic Railway for the website, so until then I have made the pages for the new Amtrak Stations I visited; Amsterdam, NY–(45 Photos) Utica, NY–(130 Photos) Enjoy!