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Amtrak Transit Adventures

The Rebuilt Milwaukee Station Platform Area – Getting their via the South Shore Line to the Hiawatha

This past week I spent at a training for work in Milwaukee with a colleague. At my job the assumption is that we’d drive to the training but my boss was willing to let us take the train when I showed him that with the Indiana and Chicago area Toll Road Tolls and and parking […]

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Transit Adventures

An Uncomfortable Night: Coach to Rochester via sunrise in Cleveland

Well this post is only two months too late (and just before the next holiday long weekend). Over July 4th Weekend I went on a slightly insane adventure to visit my grandmother in Syracuse. The trip consisted of taking the Lake Shore Limited on Friday night to Rochester, where my parents picked me up in […]

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Transit Adventures

The Dinner Dome Train on my First Trip to Indy – Iowa Pacific Business Class on the new Hoosier State

On Friday, I found myself with a half-day off I have to take off, and yet again no real weekend plans in my new home of South Bend. I leave the house in the morning bicycling to work (normally I walk the half-hour, biking takes ten minutes, so I could get to the South Shore […]

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Transit Adventures

The South Shore Line to a walk and lake swim at Beverly Shores

This trip was taken on June 11, 2016 Last Saturday, not quite feeling a trip into Chicago yet, considering the South Shore Line is having an embargo on brining bicycles onboard due to the Chicago Blues Festival, I decided to go for an afternoon adventure to the Indiana Dunes for a walk and a swim […]

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Transit Adventures

The Lake Shore Limited to my new home in South Bend, Indiana

Hi Website and my blog readers, Greetings from my new home in South Bend, Indiana! This was never my intention to be dormant for 8 months. It just ended up this way as I had perhaps some of my busiest 8 months of my life finishing graduate school, leaving New York again to start my […]

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NYC Subway Transit Adventures

Riding the First 7 Train to 34 St-Hudson Yards to the Funicular Elevator

Today for the first time in just under 26 years (with the opening 63rd Street Extension on October 29, 1989), and basically first time in my lifetime (I was two weeks old when the 63 Street Extension Opened) a new subway line was finally extended into new territory with the opening of 7 line extension […]

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Metro-North New Jersey Transit Adventures

Labor Day to Port Jervis via Otisville, Main Line Express Trains and Hoboken

This trip occurred on Labor Day, September 7, 2015 Introduction: The goal of the website right now is “finishing things” particularly far-flung portions of our commuter rail system that in the past I’ve been too primarily cheap to venture out too. The most obvious was my Summer Sunday to the Hamptons to finish that branch […]

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Metro-North New Jersey Transit Adventures

To Spring Valley via the Hudson Line to the TZx up and the Pascack Valley Line Back

This trip was taken on September 4, 2015. It took a few days to write! Introduction: Hunter gives us all the Jewish Holidays off so this semester is starting on a big whimper and giving me time to tie up some loose ends for the website, ideally with long train rides to read on (it’s […]

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Long Island Rail Road Transit Adventures

A Sunny Summer Sunday to the Hamptons to Finish the Montauk Branch

This rather long post has taken me a few weeks to finish. The actual trip took place two weeks ago on August 16, 2015: Introduction: This summer I haven’t had much time for the website but have been trying to “finishing” things for the website. A few weeks ago curiosity got the best of me […]

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NYC Subway Transit Adventures

City Hall Loop

A week ago in the morning I was able to go on a tour of the historic City Hall Loop–(52 photos, including some from the Subway Centennial). We entered and left the station on the 6 train.    I’m presently wrapping up an internship for DCP nearby and when I went for a quick walk […]