Today it was time for another day trip and points run to Philadelphia. I did it with my one old railfan friend Robert so it was slightly less intense and adventurous than many of my trips with a very leisurely start for a day trip to Philly. We only booked it the night before so […]
I decided it is finally time to upload some of the subway photos I’ve been taking over the past few months. On March 8, the last day before Central Avenue closed for rehabilitation I headed out on a snowy afternoon to get some photos of the Myrtle Avenue Branch including the just reopened Knickerbocker Avenue […]
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 […]
It’s an easy but not particularly nice under a highway half-mile walk to New Haven-State Street where I see Train #275 pass as I reach the pedestrian overpass that leads to the simple island platform. I head downstairs and photograph a Shore Line East Train powered by leased Amtrak P40s still in their paint scheme […]
Shuttle Train #475 arrives in Push-Mode led by the cab car on time. The two conductors open both vestiblue doors and I sit in the cab car before the red, crew only backwards flag. There like three people in normal clothes sitting behind the flag, I believe they are Amtrak employees deadheading. I sit as […]
The Vermonter comes in early at 2:36 on the track closest to the station, led by P42 #156 covered in snow in the heritage paint scheme. I ask the new engineer waiting for the train if I can get a photo of the locomotive. The answer is yes but don’t go beyond the forklift near […]
At 12:54, 2 minutes early, I photograph the short, overpowered Lake Shore Limited: two P42 Locomotives, a Baggage Car, a Viewliner Sleeper, 2 Amfleet-II coaches and an Amfleet-II Lounge car arriving. One conductor has opened the baggage car door for the one piece of checked baggage I noticed on the cart in the station, a […]
Amtrak traditionally ran one or two New York to Boston trains per day via Springfield, know as the inland route, the last regularly scheduled train (last Sunday for example, Amtrak ran a couple emergency trains via the inland route with the costal route closed due to a derailment near New Haven) ran in 2004. Today there is […]
Greetings from Boston where I made an unexpected (didn’t even go home first) trip to deliver a relatives passport so she can make her flight to India tonight! This trip began at about 10:00am this morning. I am getting off the subway in Brooklyn going to my internship this morning when I get a bunch […]
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 […]