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Transit Adventures

A One-Way Getaway to Dia:Beacon and a half-hour late LOOP Bus to get New Hamburg

I’ve been scheming on how to finally get the Hudson Line up to my website and spent far to long one evening on MTA.info going through and even making a price list of intermediate fares to the stations in Putnam and Dutchess Counties. I am also a bit of an art museum lover and for […]

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Long Island Rail Road Transit Adventures

A Bad Trip on the A Train – A Half-Hour Emergency Break Delay and down the LIRR Babylon Branch to Seaford

Today’s Half-Hour Emergency Break Application Delay: I’m on way to Brooklyn to go to work. I’m sitting in the last car that has some people standing but is relatively empty. At about 10:00am just south of 34 Street I heard that awful sound of air rushing out of the breaks and us slowly stopping (not […]

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Long Island Rail Road NYC Subway Transit Adventures

Starting at the Recently Renovated Queens Village LIRR Station and to Central Islip Almost Entirely by Bus Making Most Stops Along the Way

Today I had a completely free day, an Unlimited Ride MetroCard in my wallet and a quest to get more of Long Island done. The original plan was to take the train to Syosset, take a too early train to Huntington (to get some photo time there) and finally ride out to Port Jefferson. Unfortunately […]

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New Jersey Transit Adventures

An Early Morning for the waiting rooms of Orange and Brick Church plus out to Convent Station on the Morristown Line and some more on the Gladstone Branch

The benefit of ending daylight savings time this weekend means I wake up much earlier than normal. I’m awake at 7:00 on the new time, a day without anything real on my agenda. I decide its finally time to get more of the Morristown Line and it’s waiting rooms that close ridiculously early, nearly all […]

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Transit Adventures

A Year After Sandy: the R train free in Brooklyn, the new West Concourse at WTC and a NWK-EWR-MET Final Points Run

Today is the one year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy. I have my half day of work in Brooklyn before leaving around 1:30pm and decided I have to see what’s going on with the R train being supposedly. I headed over to what were once the Lawrence Street–(4 Photos) entrances and find the gates open with no […]

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Transit Adventures

A Yonkers to Newark Points Run and Finishing the Newark City Subway

Monday, my first day back begins as a beautiful day. I don’t have any work commitments until Tuesday. My original plan is to perhaps visit Greystone, Glenwood or Ludlow before my YNY to NWK points run. I end up getting distracted catching up on things from this trip and don’t leave as early as I […]

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Home from Saint-Lambert, a nice ride on the Ocean View

For my trip home I decided to book my ticket from Saint-Lambert so I can get pictures of the dome car entering and also because I’m curious about the state of the station since I visited it a year ago just a few days before the ticket office closed and was supposedly replaced by a […]

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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 […]