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New Jersey

Upload: Short Hills, Millburn and Maplewood

This quick update I finished processing while on the train back from Syracuse, its the final three stops on the shared Gladstone Branch/Morristown Line that I visited last February: Maplewood–(79 Photos) Millburn–(43 Photos), the one non-historic stop on the entire line Short Hills–(33 Photos), the station house is a ticket office by day and restaurant […]

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Amtrak Transit Adventures

Springfield is Here! plus a points run on early #236 from Yonkers down to Penn Station

Greetings from the ClubAcela in Penn Station where I’ve arrived after completing a YNY-NYP points run on the first Empire Service Train of the day to stop at Yonkers #236 to set up my day-trip to Philadelphia tomorrow and enjoy a second breakfast before a noon time appointment in midtown. First I’ve rebuilt, and added […]

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New Jersey Transit Adventures

Starting the stations of the North Jersey Coast Line: the Amboys to Hazlet to an AGR Points run home on a Regional and Keystone, beginning my To SYR via SPG trip

On Friday I’m making one of my regular trips to Syracuse to visit my grandmother. This time though I’m going a very unusual route via Springfield to finally ride the Lake Shore Limited through the Berkshires. I was able to plan this trip two weeks in advance to get the Northeast Regional 25% discount which […]

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New Jersey

Upload: The Historic Six Lackawanna Stations in ‘The Oranges’ with over 300 photos

One of the most impressive grade separated in the 1910s 3 track railroads I know of is the ex-Lackawanna Main Line. This line still carries New Jersey Transit’s second busiest to the Northeast Corridor Morris & Essex Lines that consist of the Morristown Line and Gladstone branch away from Newark west. This update includes the […]

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NYC Subway

Upload: Riding the 2012 R1-9 Shoppers Special Nostalgia Train

As I continue to try and get my recent NYC Subway Photos up and on my website, here is another set I shot this past December 9, 2012. For the past few years the MTA has rolled out the R1-9s in revenue service during December between Thanksgiving and Christmas. This past year was no exception. […]

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Boston

Upload: Worcester Union Station, a hidden gem plus dumpy Newtownville and West Newton

Well I finally finished my upload from my quick trip to Boston (Springfield I’m holding since I will have a two hour layover there in less than two weeks) and lets start with the three new stations, first with the gem: Worcester-Union Station – (106 Photos!) West Newton – (33 Photos) Newtonville – (29 Photos) I also made […]

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New Jersey

The Northern Montclair Line Electrified in 2002

Today’s Update is a continuation of yesterdays. It is of the station’s in northern Montclair (including two very nice historic station houses) that were originally on the Erie Railraod’s Greenwood Lake Line. They were electrified with the opening of the Montclair Connection in 2002: Montclair State University–(35 photos) Montclair Heights–(20 photos) Mountain Avenue–(20 photos) Upper […]

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New Jersey

The Morris & Essex Lines Montclair Branch

Thought I would give this post a slightly confusing title for a decent reason. These 4 stations are the only stations still in operation (well Bay Street replaced the original Montclair Terminal in 1981 that still exists but your webmaster didn’t know about on his last trip there and needs to return) on the Montclair […]

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New Jersey

Newark Broad Street and more photos of the Light Rail Extension

In this update I’ve finally gotten the other rail station in Newark, Newark-Broad Street Station up on the web: Lackawanna’s Broad Street Train Station–(98 Photos)     I also rebuilt my section for the new (2006) downtown Newark Light Rail Extension, built to connect Newark’s two train stations with quite a lot of new photos: Broad […]

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New Jersey

The Relaunched Hudson-Bergen Light Rail is Here!

As part of writing PATH and Hoboken I realized it was time to finally make the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail section up to my current standards and finally upload all my Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Photos that were in the acrive. Each station now also has a full detailed description and history when interesting. New Homepage with […]