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Amtrak California

Upload: Sacramento Valley Station is Finally Here (Before and After the New Platforms)!

This station I honestly had basically finished a year ago, as I go through my photos finishing to write my (anti-) Epic Ski Trip Report I realized I hadn’t actually quite finished the photo labeling or uploaded the actual section up to the website. It’s quite massive and contains two sections: The first is the station […]

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Amtrak Metro-North

Bridgeport, Westport, Green’s Farms – 3 more down the New Haven Line

This is an update also mostly with pictures from October, extending the New Haven Line a couple more stops down the line, and rebuilding the most important station between Stamford and New Haven. Here are the 3 new stations: Bridgeport–(rebuilt with 54 new photos)   Green’s Farms–(52 Photos) Westport–(rebuilt with 56 Photos) Enjoy!

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Amtrak

Northampton and Greenfield Amtrak’s Two Newest Stations

Yesterday, I road the inaugural Amtrak train to stop in Northampton and Greenfield on my Last Train via Palmer, First train via the Knowlege Corridor Trip I ran off the train onto crowded platforms in Northampton and Greenfield. Today I made starter station pages. Making proper visits to the stations is on my list on my […]

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Amtrak Transit Adventures

The Inaugural Northbound Vermonter Backing out of Springfield with Company Cars and Shuttle Train #475 to Metro-North Home

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 […]

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Amtrak Transit Adventures

The Crowded First Vermonter to stop in Greenfield and Northampton down the Knowledge Corridor

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 […]

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Amtrak Transit Adventures

The Last Vermonter via Palmer and Amherst to Windsor, VT (4 Minutes late because of the Amherst Platform Party)

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 […]

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Amtrak Long Island Rail Road

Finishing Riding the Long Island Railroad to Rhode Island

Merry Christmas! Well, regular life got in the way of the SubwayNut this past November and December, with a far too over committed second semester of graduate school. I finally finished yesterday. I am now starting on a month off for winter break and have a bunch of stuff I’m anxious to get up on […]

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Amtrak

The Final 3 Peidmont Stops Down to Charlotte

I think the title says everything, the Piedmont can join the ranks of the Hiawatha, Amtrak Cascades, Capital Corridor, and San Joaquin with every station photographed and on the web: Salisbury, NC–(72 Photos) Kannapolis, NC–(46 Photos) Charlotte, NC–(60 Photos) Enjoy!

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Amtrak

Burlington and the Piedmond Triad NC Amtrak Stations

I’ve been working on the website quite a bit lately, just haven’t had anything substantial to update. Here are the next three stations in North Carolina from my Amtrak trip there in July. Burlington, NC–(65 Photos) Greensboro, NC–(86 Photos) High Point, NC–(72 Photos) Enjoy! There should be more soon.

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Amtrak Boston Transit Adventures

The Needham MBTA Commuter Rail Line to Acela Express First Class – The Final 231 miles in 3 hours 35 minutes

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 […]