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 […]
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!
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 […]
Today I had to head up to New Haven for an important special occasion. This is the type of trip I wouldn’t have blogged about normally but with the Metro-North Crash on Friday closing off the entire New Haven Line between Westport to Bridgeport the Train-Bus-Train Transfer that we had to deal with made this […]
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 […]
After going to the Parade of Trains last Sunday, I decided to finally ride the J Shuttle that makes just 4 stops between Chambers Street and Essex Street, it wasn’t too exciting the destination signs don’t say shuttle just Nassau Street local. Here is the short strip map waiting to leave Chambers Street: It was the usual […]
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 […]
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!