Well today about four minutes before noon I (on a tip from the MTA’s website) was at Grand Central waiting for this, with quite a few other people (and members of the press, I am slightly annoyed at not having my website identified): It was this train: Running in this Service: I got on to […]
Category: Transit Adventures
These posts are simply my day to day adventures as I photograph every rail station on the New York City Subway
Today, me and my one railfan friend decided it was time to go down to Philly and together visit every station on the Broad Street Line. I am not at all a fan of buses but New York to Philly is one of the few rides I can tolerate since the bus is so much […]
Well I haven’t made an update for a few days because I was in Vermont again visiting my family there and today on the way back drove via the Windsor (VT), Bellows Falls, Brattleboro, and Amherst Vermonter Stations, all with their station houses open since I was just ahead of the Vermonter which I ended […]
The rest of my trip earlier today on Train #280 was largely uneventful. I get so annoyed with a woman on her cell phone that by Rome I change to some other empty seats. We stopped for the usual freight traffic on the busy CSX Water Level route, loosing a bit of time so we […]
Greetings from Empire Service Train #280 where I am making a final no stopovers trip back to New York City (making any would have required a call to an Amtrak agent because only 3 can be made online), I am also now in the mood just to get back to New York. The train arrived […]
107 miles scheduled in almost five hours (average speed 22 mph) is the Maple Leaf I took today from Toronto to Downtown Buffalo. In reality the slowness is because of the boarder crossing and fact the VIA and Amtrak crews switch entirely including all of the food (and menus in the café car). It took […]
Greetings from a Starbucks in Toronto where I didn’t go because I was particularly hungry or thirsty (a final full VIA breakfast hit the spot) but needed to go to get wifi and more importantly find a youth hostel to stay in for at least tonight. Had I been in a US city I wouldn’t […]
Greetings from the Panorama Lounge (where I am enjoying another cup of VIA’s one herbal peppermint tea and another cookie) in wonderfully historic 100 year old Union Station Winnipeg where we finally arrived at 9:00, and I just went for a cold half-hour walk in 3 degree (F weather) through the darkened downtown to stretch […]
Well today I had an excellent day skiing Marmot Basin. I woke up at 7:30 and found someone who was driving there and was decent enough to let me ride along. This meant I got there at 8:30 and quickly rented myself some terrible overpriced rental skis from the resort (simple heads that felt a […]
Greetings from the HI Jasper Wilderness hostel that much to my surprise has Wi-Fi although the sign says extremely limited bandwidth (no videos, no Skype, I’ll be courteous and not update the website). I arrived here today shortly before 4:00pm Mountain Time after a ride that felt way to short and was exactly what I […]