Yesterday was a day of staying inside and taking a few walks to assess the Hurricane coming down. Living in Washington Heights, across from the tallest natural point in Manhattan meant that except for the lights flickering once nothing happened. Yesterday morning I did walk down to the subway entrance at 190th Street and the […]
Category: Transit Adventures
These posts are simply my day to day adventures as I photograph every rail station on the New York City Subway
Well the subway closed in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy for just the second time in history after Hurricane Irene last year that the subway’s have been fully closed. It still isn’t raining yet close to midnight. I did go downtown today to meet some friends on the upper east side, heading downtown to 59th Street […]
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A NEC NYP-NWK-MET Points Run
I had to add another points run to my southbound Adirondack ticket and decided doing a NYP-NWK-MET trip in New Jersey. It would also give me the chance to visit Edison, the only stop on the NEC other than Hamilton (that I’m saving for when I finally go to Philadelphia via West Trenton). I knew […]
I return to the station shortly before six and find the caretaker is just coming back to open the station waiting room. I hear him calling Julie (on an old flip phone) for the status of both Directions Ethan Allen Expresses (the northbound is due at 7:10pm) this evening. He tells us their both on […]
This morning started way too early, around 2:00am someone came into the hostel room and switched the light on. This totally woke me up and I spent the rest of the night tossing and turning not getting a full nights sleep. I went downstairs to the hostels underground kitchen around 6:30 (the hostel doesn’t have […]
At 7:10 I left the house (5 minutes earlier than normal, but I didn’t know how long the customs formalities would take). The A train arrived before I had a chance to walk the length of the platform and at 7:35 I was getting off at Penn Station. I went straight to the Amtrak concourse, […]
On Tuesday night I realized that the Yankees chances of making it to Game 6 of the ALCS were looking quite slim and in time for the I love NY 15% or my NARP 10% discounts, I decided it was time for my alternate and train oriented trip for the weekend. The plan, Ocean View, […]
Well, I got busy last week and over the weekends and didn’t quite have a chance to upload anything new. I do go on a few railfanning trips though: Last Monday I stared on the M60 Bus to the 6 train up to Pelham Bay Park for a day on Bee-Line Bus to all 6 […]
We return to the Windsor Locks Bus stop at 4:20, there is one other passenger waiting to board. At 4:27 our Shuttle Train #475 arrives in push-mode with an ex-Metroliner Cab Car, followed by an Amfleet-I and then the P42. Only the middle non-cab car is open with maybe 12 people on board one other […]
The main reason I wanted to make the loop trip up to Burlington is to ride the Vermonter in full. The friend I am visiting is another railfan and he decides to leave his family and ride back with me. Yesterday we went on a bit of a driving adventure to downtown Burlington so I […]