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Amtrak Rockies Region Transit Adventures

A Roomette’s Good Night’s Sleep Through Nevada from Salt Lake City to Truckee to Snowless Squaw Valley

Introduction: The original plan when me and my Dad planned this segment of the trip back in November was to ski Alta for two days and then ski Squaw Valley for two days, take an Amtrak Roomette to Truckee and then ski Squaw Valley for two days. These two ski areas are both included on […]

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NYC Subway Transit Adventures

The Late A Local at 2:40am to the Empty Yellow S Lefferts Blvd Shuttle to the Packed Q10 Bus to JFK Airport for a 6:00am Flight

Introduction: I start graduate school in two weeks. I am spending my last two weeks before it starts going on a trip out west that is partially a mid-winter ski trip and ending with some sun in Arizona. Don’t worry there will be plenty of train rides including finding the ex-NJT ComArrows Amtrak California has […]

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California

Update: Santa Clara and San Jose

The reason I haven’t gotten any updates out lately is the fact I’m working on a couple grandiose projects for the website. One of which is finally getting Caltrain up on the web, a project I started a few months ago, stopped and am now, finally, coming back to hammer it out and finish. This […]

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Boston Transit Adventures

A Saturday Afternoon on the Slightly Infrequent MBTA Subway Lines to Revisit Some Stations

This past weekend I was in Boston for the third straight year mainly for what is turning into an annual pre-Christmas visit by car from New York with my family to see extended family. This year though I found myself with Saturday afternoon completely free because my parents each had a different old friend they […]

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Metro-North

New Hamburg and Beacon Stations

The busy holiday season has gotten up to me and I’ve been very poor about making updates this December. I finally have a small one. Last month I headed up to Beacon to visit the DIA Beacon and now I’ve finally found time to upload the the two new Metro-North Stations I visited: New Hamburg–(71 […]

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Amtrak

The Charleston Train Station Still With Separate But Equal Waiting Rooms

I’ve finally gotten my three posts from my Spontaneous, Quick Trip to Charleston Trip. The main new Amtrak station I got a photo essay of I had a chance to write the Charleston Amtrak Station–(51 Photos) with the two distinctive mirror image waiting rooms in such a seemingly modern station that I found a quite powerful example […]

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Metro-North Transit Adventures

My Photos: Metro-North’s First Fatal Derailment at Spuyten Duyvil

I haven’t updated this blog over the past couple days because I have been trying to decide the best way to react and whether to post the photos I’ve taken of the derailment that happened last  Sunday Morning. I’ve decided to since it seems like a topic that my website should cover (although I’m not […]

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New Jersey

Photo Essays Starting down the Gladstone Branch

This update is the first of a couple of the stations I’ve been photographing and visiting along the Gladstone Branch: Berkeley Heights–(35 Photos) Murray Hill–(40 Photos) New Providence–(21 Photos)-in the dark, on the revisit list Enjoy!

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New Jersey

Update: Morristown and the Aqua Train

I rarely right single station updates but this is all I had a chance to finish this evening, it is a namesake for a Line and quite historic and beautiful (although I think if I had to choose a favorite on this line it would be Madsion, purely based on the stations, not on the […]

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Metro-North

The Hudson River Dobbs Ferry and Ardsley Stations

Almost exactly a month ago I went on my first trip up the Hudson Line in a few years. This simple update of the two stations I’ve been meaning to upload this for the past month, and just never got around to it; this evening, as I’m working on more impressive updates, I present these […]