Every summer for the past few years the R32 ‘Brightliners’ by far the oldest cars nearly 50 years old that normally dwell on the C have been switched onto the A train so they can give their not all that good air conditioners a rest on the outdoor portions of the A train. This summer […]
Category: Transit Adventures
These posts are simply my day to day adventures as I photograph every rail station on the New York City Subway
When I photographed the section for the LIRR’s West Hempstead Branch I got off at the first stop, Westwood and walked/took buses to the rest of the stations on the branch. I’ve kept meaning to actually ride the West Hempstead Branch (it, the Greenport Branch beyond Mattituck, and the Port Jefferson Branch between Port Jeff […]
Today I stopped at Grand Central to get a few photos of the lack of Hudson Line service. As I was getting off the subway I walked by every entrance into Grand Central and it wasn’t clear where you were supposed to flash your Metro-North ticket for the Subway Cross-Honoring to 242 Street. It turned […]
This heat wave made me want to get out of my non-Air Conditioned Apartment to spend an afternoon-evening riding the last stretch of New Jersey Transit’s Northern divisions that I still haven’t been on the Montclair-Boonton Line out to Hackettstown. I also decided it was time to visit a few more stations on the diesel […]
After getting off the Pennsylvanian at Elizabethtown its time to continue my points/run the Keystone (connecting to an Amtrak Regional) photo stop. I start by spending the next 20ish minutes getting photos of the modern platforms and historic station house that make up the Elizabeth Station. The restored depot with a stone building has been […]
When I booked this months ago I decided to turn my final day of this trip into a quafecta points run to get more Keystone corridor stations of Elizabethtown, Mount Joy, and Lancaster plus a quick layover for an extra 100 points in Philly. I should also add that the Capital to Pennsylvanian Route is […]
I go back to the Chicago Metropolitan Lounge at 5:10, flash my Select+ Card and my train ticket. The agent tells me that I should go to the main waiting room at around 5:30 for regular coach boarding. I pick my backpack up from the red cap and hear an announcement for lounge boarding for […]
The State Supported Illinois Trains (Illinois Zephyr/Carl Sandburg, Illini/Saluki, and Lincoln Service) offer quite cheap and back tickets to and from Chicago especially when they are at low buckets. On previous trips to Chicago I had never really taken advantage of them (using them more to actually go places). These trips can only really be […]
I have one major goal for the website during my evening visiting old family friends in Milwaukee. The goal is to visit the Milwaukee Airport. Had the Empire Builder been less than an hour late yesterday my plan was to buy a $7.50 for an extra 100 AGR points and the ten minute ride to […]
I’m not going to fully blog about my time in the Twin Cities. The main purpose of the visit was seeing old friends. I did manage to ride Northstar on Sunday one stop from Target Field, Minneapolis to Fridley. This trip was after I attended a Minnesota Twins game and was a New York City […]