Well greetings from Washington Heights where me and my parents returned from a week at our house in Maine last night, with a side trip to Grand Manan, New Brunswick, the ferry to it, only form of public transportation I’ve ridden in the past week with our car in the car hold beneath. Driving back […]
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 today I had to run an errand downtown on William Street that gave me a chance to use (and photograph ) the first new improved entrance to open as part of the Fulton Street Transit Center with a nice big plaque. I then wondered the area a bit getting station entrance photos so I […]
Today I had access to an Unlimited and swiped it 15 times basically getting more of Midtown Done. The day started in disappointment: I was planning to take the M98 downtown since my most important destination was the Upper East Side but I got to the stop one minute after the schedule claimed the last […]
Well after my mid-trip Lake Shore post on Friday the delays got worse due to a freight train ahead of us with a defect and we got to Utica an hour late before a stop outside of the platforms in Albany when the train was divided with the cars in darkness before pulling into the […]
Greetings from the Lounge Car of the for once On Time Lake Shore Limited! Well over the course of my three days I got quite a bit of the CTA done, getting the entire Pink, Brown, and Loop photographed along with the southern half of the Red and Green Lines, and the Skokie Swift, the […]
This post I just realized I never actually uploaded (from my iPhone typed on my bluetooth keyboard). About 5 minutes late at 7:34 the lights of a locomotive much to my surprise with Superliners. The Consist of Train #382, The Carl Sandburg: P40 Locomotive #86 Superliner Coach #34080 Diner-Lite Conversion Dining Car #37000-just used for […]
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Greetings from Kewanee, IL
After adding Boston in full last Tuesday night I was off Wednesday morning to fly on Frontier Airlines to Des Moines, Iowa to ride the second half RAGRAI to Davenport before I biked the rest of the way with sattlebags to here: where I am waiting for the Carl Sandburg (equipped with a bike rack […]
I need to begin this post by saying that Metro-North needs to add more Sunday Service, trains just once an hour on each section of the New Haven Line (A local runs GCT-Stamford connecting to a non-stop express from GCT to Stamford that than runs local to New Haven) these trains were really crowded, I […]
Yesterday I returned from a quick 3-day visit to my grandmother in Syracuse. I thought of taking Megabus at least one way but the train was only $10 more so I took my familiar route up the Hudson and across to Syracuse. I did though for the first time discover (how did I not know […]
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3 Days in Boston
Greetings from MegaBus as I return from 3 days for the website in Boston where I photographed every station on the Red, Green, and Blue Lines and every underground green line station plus the ‘E’ Heath Street Branch. Had I not also been using this trip to stay and eat dinner both nights with relatives […]