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New Jersey NYC Subway Transit Adventures

Finally Finishing NJT North Riding out to Hackettstown via the Montclair-Boonton Line out Morristown Line back aboard Metro-North Comet Vs

I’m determined to finally get out to Hackettstown, the one part of NJT Rail I haven’t ridden except for the Atlantic City Line that will have to be a much larger adventure of a trip another time. I decide to ask Robbie my friend that I visited in Rhode Island and went on the Shore […]

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NYC Subway Transit Adventures

The R32 Brightliners on the J and too many J trains and two few Z trains during Skip-Stops

Every summer for the past few years the R32 ‘Brightliners’ by far the oldest cars nearly 50 years old that normally dwell on the C have been switched onto the A train so they can give their not all that good air conditioners a rest on the outdoor portions of the A train. This summer […]

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Long Island Rail Road NYC Subway Transit Adventures

Riding the LIRR from West Hempstead to Long Beach via A,F Subway and N6 and N33 Buses – Plus the S Relaying at Howard Beach

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 […]

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Metro-North NYC Subway Transit Adventures

No Hudson Line at GCT and the C Train Using R46s and R160s

Today I stopped at Grand Central to get a few photos of the lack of Hudson Line service. As I was getting off the subway I walked by every entrance into Grand Central and it wasn’t clear where you were supposed to flash your Metro-North ticket for the Subway Cross-Honoring to 242 Street. It turned […]

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NYC Subway

The SMEE Museum Train of Many Colors in All Star Game Special Service on the 7 plus C, F, J and R Weekend Trackwork

On Thursday the MTA put the notice up on their website that on Sunday, in honor of the Sunday All Star Game Festivities (The Futures Game) that the SMEE Museum Train, also known as the Train of Many Colors will make 3 round trips beginning at 1:00pm from Times Square to Flushing running Express towards […]

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NYC Subway

The Grand Central Subway Station is here (only with 2011 and earlier photos)

Getting the subway stations at Grand Central up to my website is something I’ve been trying to finish for quite a long time. It was one of those stations that two years ago I had mostly written but then got frustrated with trying to figure out the exact entrances to the Lexington Avenue station. This […]

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NYC Subway Superstorm Sandy

Rockaway Park to Wash. Hts.-168th St aboard the S (first passenger to enter and leave Beach 105 St) and R1-9s

I finished my last Rockaway Here We Come! (Again) post yesterday on the platform at Rockaway Park waiting for the first revenue service departure. The R1-9s ran this route in regular revenue service although they bypassed all stations from Howard Beach to Euclid Avenue. I road from Broad Channel to Euclid, taking the first two Shuttles […]

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NYC Subway Superstorm Sandy

Rockaway Here We Come! (Again)

June 28, 1956: Today, for the First Time Since Sandy: As of Noon today the subway is fully an officially back with service to every station! The MTA reopened the line in style sending out the Museum train first full of dignitaries (from the MTA and FTA, no elected officials bothered to show up) from […]

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NYC Subway

Upload: Vernon-Jackson and Hunter’s Point Avenue

I’m again finally getting to the few subway station’s I’m missing. This update is off the two underground stops on the 7 Line in Queens: Vernon Blvd-Jackson Av–(45 Photos), what is strange about this streetstair? Hunters Point Av–(38 Photos of the Station and 4 of artwork) Enjoy!

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NYC Subway

The Fully Connected Court Square Complex

Time for another meaga-complex that I hadn’t quite finished on the subway or expanded, this time its the Court Square Complex with the in subway connection finally opening from the G to the 7 train in 2007. The underground IND portion was one of the earliest station’s I had written so the discriptions throughout the […]