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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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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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Transit Adventures

An Hour Late ES Train #284 Points Run From Yonkers Breaking Down Upon Arrival into NYP, Missing the Newark Leg (and getting the $12.13 refunded instead of waiting)

Yesterday I road 4 segments, technically only using 3 of the multi-city segments out of four that Amtrak’s website has. The reason is that the Lake Shore skips Hudson and Rhinecliff so it offers a directly ticketed connection to train 244 that I rode the 1 stop. With my remaining segment I decided to be […]

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Transit Adventures

A Stormy: SYR-UCA-(ALB)-HUD-YNY aboard 2 On Time Empire Service Trains & the Lake Shore Limited to Hudson, NY ending on The 2 hour late Adirondack due to Downed Trees and Signals

For my trip home from Syracuse, I want to make a second photo essay visit to Utica and maximize AGR point.With another weekend trip (by car) over Columbus Day Weekend, I realize a second day-trip down to Philly on Wednesday (I work Tuesday and Thursday) will be way too much for me. With the Lake […]

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Transit Adventures

To Syracuse with a stopover in Amsterdam on the Maple Leaf and Empire Service

I want to be early down to Penn Station so I can have a little bit of time in ClubAcela and I also know that the Maple Leaf is a train that boards 15-20 minutes early. I leave the house at 6:05, just miss the A train and am getting off the subway at Penn […]

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Transit Adventures

A Track Confusion Points Run on Slightly Late #148 from NWK to NYP

I get distracted and don’t leave work until 5:10 which is in Downtown Brooklyn bear Borough Hall. My connecting my two trips segment today is on Springfield-bound Northeast Regional #148, departure time from Newark 6:10. I’m a bit worried and am really wishing I had bitten the bullet and bought a weekly MetroCard this week. […]

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Transit Adventures

A Day Trip to Philly to finish the Norristown High Speed Line and a Late Keystone Points Run, nearly missing my Regional Home

Introduction: This weekend I’m off to Syracuse to visit my grandmother and also ride the Adirondack Scenic Railway from Utica north to Thendara on Saturday, with intermediate SYR-UCA Amtrak fares $18 one-way and the unreliability of the busy CSX Empire Corridor these days I decided we’d just drive. We’ll I’ll do the driving I don’t […]

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Westerly, RI and ex-Metroliner Cab Cars at Windsor, VT and Springfield, MA

Except for Shore Line East this update will bring everything on the web from my Local Trains to Boston and Windsor, VT Trip towards the end of August: Westerly, RI–(79 Photos)–a gem of a station on the NEC Springfield, MA–(20 Photos)–3 Ex-Metroliner Cab Cars Windsor-Mt. Ascutney, VT–(9 Photos)–Me and six other people actually getting off […]

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Metro-North Transit Adventures

The Underpowered New Haven Line and Amtrak at Harrison & Mamaroneck

The vast majority of the photos on my website have come from one camera, my Canon Rebel XTi Digital SLR that I bought with my high school graduation money now a little over six years ago. Recently its developed a terrible electrical problem shutting down a lot and combined with no lenses that really work. […]

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Transit Adventures

New York to Bangor via Acela First Class and Concord Coach Lines (almost the Downeaster Too except for a delay)

This trip is caused by someone needing to drive my Grandmother back from Maine, the job that was the main cause of my Downeaster to the Cape Flyer Trip a little less than a month ago. My original thoughts for the trip were to wend my way up Maine over two days spending the night […]