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FastTracks on my branch of the A train – totally blotched — Shuttle Buses, not the M4 as advertised running

The four days this week the MTA has brought FasTracks to my little branch of the A train between 207th Street and 168th Street. The service advisory was ripped with confusion. It says (FASTRACK_mapA) to either take the 1 train or the M4 bus from 168th Street to 190th Street along Fort Washington Avenue (the […]

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New Jersey Transit Adventures

A rain shortened trip only as far as Short Hills to photograph the Duel-Mode ALP-45DPs on diesel from Hoboken to Newark and electricity beyond on the Morristown Line and Gladstone Branches

This morning I have an early morning appointment that was done before 9am. Although rain is in the forecast I decide I might as well try my next transit adventure. The goal is getting some of the rare diesel trains running on the Gladstone Branch that normally uses Arrow IIIs but are running diesels (except […]

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New Jersey Transit Adventures

A Jersey Hudson Waterfront Adventure: Hoboken Terminal’s Mess and the (Slow) Bayonne Flyer

This afternoon I deceided it was time to finally leave the neighborhood and go on a little transit adventure down the Jersey side of the Hudson River waterfront. The main excuse for the trip was to finally get more photos and more importantly my descriptions of the Pavonia-Newport (excuse me just Newport) and Hoboken PATH […]

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A Ski Bus, TRAX, UTA Local Bus, JetBlue Red Eye, Q10 and A Train Trip Home Through the Night from Alta

The trip home on a JetBlue red eye 3 buses, TRAX, and the A train, began after a nice final day of skiing Alta. I headed back to our lodge, the Peruvian, and had a quick shower before a night of overnight travel. The trip home began with me and my Dad having a icy […]

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The Two Month Old FrontRunner South including the two train stations in Provo, across a grade crossing from each other.

Today was my one full day in Salt Lake City. I spent it rail fanning the new FrontRunner South extension who’s service is luckily fully interlined with FrontRunner north. The day though was rippled with delays from waiting to meet late trains going the other direction on the numerous passing sidings. This is somewhat expected […]

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The Scenic, Early and Chatty California Zephyr from DEN to SLC — One delay from a drunkard in Grand Jct who missed the train and made it wait, lying about having a 3 year old on board

After a nice day in Denver visiting friends and only taking RTD once, the 16th Street Free Mall Ride its time to continue my trip with my day on the California Zephyr from Denver to Salt Lake City, a route I’ve only done eastbound arriving in Denver after dark. I get to the station at […]

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Stopping at Grand Central’s Centennial on my way to JFK to fly to Denver through a Soon to be Demolished Monument of Modern Aviation

Today is the Centennial of Grand Central Station. I am a distant Vanderbuilt discendent and was trying to become part of the one descendent that was honored during the main dignitaries ceremony but that fell through. I still though had to stop by Grand Central today and have lunch for 20 cents through throughback to […]

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Total Confusion on the Phone with Amtrak and at Penn Station – Meeting my Grandmother on two hour late Train #280 that got a second section only a half-hour late ALB-NYP

This morning there was a derailment of a CSX grain train that delayed Empire Service Train #280 in Utica for over an hour and then it finally arrived in Amsterdam after passing through the derailment site 2 hours and 24 minutes late. I wasn’t riding the train but was picking up my elderly grandmother (who […]

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A Day Trip to Get More of the Raritan Valley Line

Well today I took my first Railfan Trip of 2013, exploring more of the Raritan Valley Line and I now have photo essays of every station between Bridgewater and Newark. What made today more ridiculous for me (and a sign of NJ Transit’s strange fares where it can be cheeper to make a stopover) is […]

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2012 In review, A Year Riding 66 Amtrak Trains and many other Transit Systems

I’ve been wanting to make webpage updates but have managed to loose nearly all the pictures I took in 2012 to corrupt hard drive issues and I’m still figuring out the best way (and how much money I’m willing to spend) to try and get the photos back. I thought I might as well do […]