This update is finishing the rest of the concrete elevated stations of the Babylon Branch that feel like a modern elevated subway line. I haven’t gotten out to Babylon itself yet, I’m hoping to on my next trip out to the island so here are the final 5 stations: Lindenhurst–(44 Photos) Copiague–(39 Photos) Amityville–(51 Photos) […]
Category: Long Island Rail Road
Today’s Half-Hour Emergency Break Application Delay: I’m on way to Brooklyn to go to work. I’m sitting in the last car that has some people standing but is relatively empty. At about 10:00am just south of 34 Street I heard that awful sound of air rushing out of the breaks and us slowly stopping (not […]
Today I had a completely free day, an Unlimited Ride MetroCard in my wallet and a quest to get more of Long Island done. The original plan was to take the train to Syosset, take a too early train to Huntington (to get some photo time there) and finally ride out to Port Jefferson. Unfortunately […]
On Friday I took a trip that was primarily by Nice Bus (took one short LIRR ride back from Lindenhurst) that I just didn’t get around to blog about out to Nassau and the edge of Suffolk County to finally finish getting the station’s all elevated on concrete guideways (except for one) Babylon Branch. In […]
When I photographed the section for the LIRR’s West Hempstead Branch I got off at the first stop, Westwood and walked/took buses to the rest of the stations on the branch. I’ve kept meaning to actually ride the West Hempstead Branch (it, the Greenport Branch beyond Mattituck, and the Port Jefferson Branch between Port Jeff […]
The Long Beach Branch is the only LIRR Branch that leaves Long Island (except for entering Manhattan Island into Penn Station), in this update I’ve made the pages for its four (one shared with the Babylon Branch) northern stations that are on Long Island proper. All of these updates are a day out to the […]
This is a farely tiny update on my Rockaway Ferry Trip two weeks ago I visited the final two stations on the LIRR Far Rockaway Branch I needed more current photos of (both I visited years ago). Here they are with my full text descriptions: Far Rockaway Inwood–(44 Photos) Enjoy!
I spent the morning debating with myself about going out for the fourth straight day but decided with the subway restored on the 4,5,6 (and other lines sounding like they might start operations during the day) I would head downtown again. Here was my subway map. My unlimited was gathering dust and losing value in […]
This is the second post (Post 1) in a three part series documenting my Adventures on mostly the free LIRR and Metro-North Railroads after Governor Cuomo declared a transit emergency after Superstorm Sandy I take the now Port Washington-bound (yesterday when I rode a train to Woodside on the line was only going as far […]
This is the first post in a three part series documenting my Adventures on mostly the free LIRR and Metro-North Railroads after Governor Cuomo declared a transit emergency after Superstorm Sandy This is the best way to describe today: Metro-North Fares Not Paid (since the system is free due to the transit emergency): $46.75 Long […]