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Long Island Rail Road

Upload: Two unusual LIRR stops in Brooklyn

Well I just had to take a break from classwork and my social life this weekend so I spent a little bit of time making this relatively brief update to the the LIRR Atlantic Branch’s Brooklyn end that goes down to the Atlantic Terminal (that will be the next update when I have time for […]

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Long Island Rail Road

Upload: LIRR’s Most Obscure Electric Branch-The West Hempstead! – 120 photos!

In this update I present the five single track (although the West Hempstead terminal has two) stations of the electrified West Hempstead Branch. In June 2010 it even lost all Weekend service due to the budget cuts. Each station is almost identical with a short four car platform (one even barely fits between to grade […]

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Long Island Rail Road

Upload: the Atlantic Branch Beyond Jamaica

In this upload I present 3 stations in eastern Queens along the Atlantic Branch (its old name, although its part of the Far Rockaway Branch on timetables) from my walk two weeks ago: Locust Manor–(Page Rebuilt with 15 new photos) Laurelton–(33 photos) Rosedale–(40 photos) Enjoy!

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Long Island Rail Road NYC Subway

Upload: A subway and LIRR stop in Jamaica and St. Albans

Well I’ve had a little bit of time to work on some new pages during the past couple of days (after next Monday I’ll have to take at least a months break from the website unfortunately when my class resumes that’s the most difficult in my major). First are two on the Long Island Rail […]

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Long Island Rail Road

Upload: New Hyde Park and Merillon Avenue

Well this evening I had a little more time to work on my latest website obsession, two more on the L.I.R.R. on the Main Line, after the Hempstead Branch’s split and before Mineola, both of these stations are at street level with New Hyde Park providing some excellent grade crossings that provide great locations for […]

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Long Island Rail Road

The Entire LIRR Hempstead Branch! – (247 photos!)

Well I decided to take a bit of a break from writing my thesis and upload some of my continuos LIRR on the same branch stations I photographed when I was at home, you can read about my adventures to photograph these stations in this upload on January 4 and 5. These station pages are […]

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NYC Subway

Upload: Additions to IND Subway Stations around Jamaica and on Queens Blvd

Well here are 4 additional uploads to stations on the IND in Queens including one that final has a page up to my current standards: Woodhaven Blvd, Jamaica-Van Wyck(12 photos), Sutphin Blvd-Archer Avenue-L.I.R.R.-JFK Airport(22 photos and a full station description), Queens Plaza(6 photos added)

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Transit Adventures

Back to C Springs via Mass Transit on the Extreme Cheap – 5 Buses ($15.50 total), and a Plane

Well greetings from Cold Colorado Springs, I doubt there will be too many website updates for the next few months I have so many other things like my thesis to really make headway on, and have at least one brutal block. The entire journey today has made felt a bit bittersweet since it could be […]

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Transit Adventures

The final day of my two week unlimited – Finishing Up the Grand Concourse Line, and a Questioning Stop

Well, today (as of an hour and a half ago) marked the expiration of the last two weekly unlimited ride MetroCard I’ll ever be able to buy. Unfortunately after my too late night last night I had a relatively mellow day and didn’t leave until two in the afternoon which gave me extremely limited hours […]

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Transit Adventures

Yesterday: Photo Essaying the Jerome Avenue el and Concourse Subway

Yesterday I set off to make the Bronx Section a bit more up to my new standards by photo essaying almost the entire Jerome Avenue el and Concourse Subway Lines. Two lines that are ridiculously close together. All the southern stations are an easy walk from each other The Concourse Subway was definitely built in […]