I’m finally back in New York and will slowly be finishing the trip reports of my (anti)-Epic Ski Bum Trip when I was having too good a time skiing and hanging out to update this blog, a real vacation! Thursday January 8th, 2015: I could have flown to Zimbabwe or Perth, Australia in the amount […]
Category: Transit Adventures
These posts are simply my day to day adventures as I photograph every rail station on the New York City Subway
I leave the UnitedClub at 1:10 and find out my next flight is in the F Gates. this is the new international terminal. I take the train out there to the airy modern terminal that only opened a couple of years ago. I go up to the gate agent, show him my long receipt with my reconfirmed […]
Greetings from the UnitedClub in Atlanta where I shouldn’t be (I should be airborne for Salt Lake City) Well I’m off on another Ski Trip using a Mountain Collective Pass that will see me going to Jackson Hole, followed by Alta Snowbird, the train to Squaw Valley and then flying home from San Francisco. What […]
I decide to bail on the Vermonter, spending the extra $22 to buy a ticket on Shuttle Train #405 in an hour to photograph the northbound train backing out. I walk through a very crowded Springfield Station–(40 Photos), and walk south down Main Street trying to get along the Connecticut River. Downtown Springfield has major problems […]
I have a nice morning with my cousins including their couple of young children who all decide to drop me off at the train station. We arrive maybe 20 minutes early. An older woman immediately comes out from the new Vermont/Connecticut River Valley tourism office behind the station welcoming us to wait inside there. She […]
Introduction and the electric Vermonter ride north from New York-Penn Station to New Haven. The train leaves New Haven–(14 Photos), two minutes late (at its weekdays departure time) at 1:25pm and were through the open-trench of New Haven. 1:30 – Officially curve off the Northeast Corridor. 1:37 – Alnex Wallingford plant. Then the Trackside Brick oven […]
Introduction: In early December Amtrak and the state of Massachusetts announced that Monday, December 29, 2014 (earlier than I thought it might be, having read January 2015 as the default date) would be the first date of service along the rerouted Vermonter route via the Knowledge Corridor via new stops in Northampton and Greenfield, with […]
This Trip was taken on October 8, a week ago The Reason for the Trip: I’m currently writing a paper for my History and Theory of Urban Planning class on Crossing Long Island Sound: The Never-Built Crossing. A trip I’ve been thinking about doing for a long time is the LIRR to Port Jefferson, the […]
This post is the second half of 433 Miles on 3 Coastal Trains Home From Rockland, Maine To get home the final jaunt down the coast from Boston, the 12:10pm Acela in First Class at the low-bucket $109 price is too tempting to pass up with 4 First Class upgrade coupons I might as well use […]
This post is part 1 of 2 of 433 Miles on 3 Coastal Trains Home From Rockland, Maine We leave our house at about 10:10, so I can drive the first 48 miles down Route 1 to Searsport to start my long coastal journey. As we near Searsport we we pass a railroad track and […]