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The Inaugural Northbound Vermonter Backing out of Springfield with Company Cars and Shuttle Train #475 to Metro-North Home

I decide to bail on the Vermonter, spending the extra $22 to buy a ticket on Shuttle Train #405 in an hour to photograph the northbound train backing out. I walk through a very crowded Springfield Station–(40 Photos), and walk south down Main Street trying to get along the Connecticut River. Downtown Springfield has major problems […]

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“Up the River” – A Weekend Day Trip, 3 Buses all the way to Peekskill (Mile 41) to Finish the Hudson Line (including Manitou!)

Introduction: I still have a couple days left on 30 day Unlimited I’ve purchased for a summer course I’m taking. Afterwards I have enough travel planned that I won’t buy a 30 day one and 7 day cards I have a harder time justifying. Anyway, it was time for a trip to try and finish […]

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Local Trains home from Kingston, RI (making 35 out of 38 stops)

Me and my friend go out for a nice breakfast at a restaurant near the Kingston Station called the Station House Restaurant, a perfectly good breakfast place. We then headed over to the Kingston Station–(71 Photos) nice and early a little before 10:00am so I can get my full photo essay. The first thing we notice […]

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Up to Westerly via Mystic

I have a good friend who weekends nearly every weekend at the beaches in Rhode Island. I’ve been trying to finish the Amtrak stations on the Northeast Corridor between Philly and Boston, with just Mystic and Kingston remaining (I got off at Kingston with this same friend but in the dark). Consulting the timetables, I […]

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A One-Way Getaway to Dia:Beacon and a half-hour late LOOP Bus to get New Hamburg

I’ve been scheming on how to finally get the Hudson Line up to my website and spent far to long one evening on MTA.info going through and even making a price list of intermediate fares to the stations in Putnam and Dutchess Counties. I am also a bit of an art museum lover and for […]

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Visiting West Haven and an AGR Points Run on the Vermonter and Shuttle as far as Berlin

When I headed up to New Haven last August for my Long Day Wending my Way to Rhode Island trip the conductor on the local train from Fordham to Stamford didn’t punch my ticket so in Stamford I bought a new ticket from Stamford to New Haven for $6.75 and decided to save my full […]

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Driving from Windsor, VT to Windsor Locks, CT for the Amtrak Shuttle to Metro-North (beating the connecting, late Northeast Regional into NY)

I wasn’t planning on my Local Trains to Boston and Vermont trip ending with another train journey simply driving back to New York City my parents like most of my trips up to Vermont, but my mother decided to take the car for another day and visit freinds in Southeastern Connecticut. She originally suggested driving […]

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Walking to Fordham to a 10 minute late Metro-North train to just a 6 minute layover to New Rochelle for Northeast Regional Train #176

Greetings from New Haven, Connecticut Where I wait for Shuttle Train #470 to leave at its scheduled departure time of 10:30, starting my actual day of traveling after two days of points runs to begin a three train day on a Northeast Regional, Shuttle to Springfield and the Lake Shore Limited to Syracuse I go […]

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Metro-North all the way to New Haven State Street on an Express to Fordham, packed in Stamford — back from Boston via the Inland Route, stopping at Union Stations (Part 5)

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 […]

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Stopping at Grand Central’s Centennial on my way to JFK to fly to Denver through a Soon to be Demolished Monument of Modern Aviation

Today is the Centennial of Grand Central Station. I am a distant Vanderbuilt discendent and was trying to become part of the one descendent that was honored during the main dignitaries ceremony but that fell through. I still though had to stop by Grand Central today and have lunch for 20 cents through throughback to […]