I’ve actually made 3 trips to Smith-9th Street since it reopened to photograph the great job the MTA did with the station. On my first trip I was in Downtown Brooklyn and made a point of taking a slow B57 bus from Downtown Brooklyn to Smith 9th Streets, the reasons were two-fold I thought the […]
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I finally got two more on the New Jersey side written (fun fact: ), both have historic station houses, one is untouched with low-level platforms, the other had a new island platform built and a modern overpass in 2009: Perth Amboy–(109 Photos) South Amboy–(136 Photos)–with its old and new platforms Enjoy!
Today I attended (along with an estimated 40,000 other people, five times more than Metro-North expected, Didn’t Realize Trains are that popular!) Grand Central’s parade-of-trains. Yesterday I was in the area already had luckily made a round-trip on the Nostalgia SMEE Shuttle train yesterday (on track 1 using R15 #6239, R12 #5760, and R33WF #9306) […]
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!
For a number of weekends in February and March trackwork on the Lenox Avenue Line and the refurbishment of 149 Street-Grand Concourse made the 2 train operate in two sections: A Northern Section operated between 3 Avenue-149 Street and Wakefield-241 Street For the first 4 weekends the southern section terminated at 96 Street and reversed […]
It’s that time again, for me to start cleaning out my subway photos that I’ve taken from the past few months (a few are of the R train post-Sandy) and finally upload them to my website. This includes some photos of the R train outside (albeit out of service) and show how far spread my […]
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The last two A train stops in Inwood
Going off of yesterday’s update today I’ve finished the last two A train stops in Inwood: Inwood-207TH St–(25 photos of the station, and 76 of the artwork including most of the quotes about Inwood and the end of the A train) Dyckman St-200TH St–(54 Photos) Enjoy!
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Take the A Train to the Heights!
The hardest stops to upload have been those in my very backyard on the A train in the heights, and here they are. Two are unique stops with elevators or ramps (your choice) to reach the platforms. These stops being my home stations have a range of photos from my ten years taking pictures on […]
Yes, Smith-9th Street reopened today and I do plan to visit it soon but felt no reason to trundle down to Brooklyn today since I already go down there twice a week (I was there yesterday) so that updated photo essay will have to wait for next week. Instead I spent quite a lot of […]
I am bad at keeping up with current NYC Transit events even if I’ve visited them. This update is all encompassing with all the photos I took of the South Ferry Stations and closure and reopening situation: Rector Street–(33 Photos) right after Superstorm Sandy the South Ferry-bound platform became an exit platform and the MTA […]