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Amtrak Metro-North Transit Adventures

To Westerly via SONO, Devon Transfer and Naugatuck

This Trip took place on August 1st: At this point I’ve done the entire New Haven Line and all train stations in Connecticut (except for a couple tiny stations on the Waterbury Branch, plus needing to revisit Waterbury itself) east of Norwalk. For the summer though because of construction on the Housatonic Swing Bridge closing […]

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A Cross-Sound Trip on LIRR, Metro-North and the Port Jeff-Bridgeport Ferry

This Trip was taken on October 8, a week ago The Reason for the Trip: I’m currently writing a paper for my History and Theory of Urban Planning class on Crossing Long Island Sound: The Never-Built Crossing. A trip I’ve been thinking about doing for a long time is the LIRR to Port Jefferson, the […]

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Amtrak Metro-North Transit Adventures

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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A Day-Trip on Track Work-Delayed Trains to the Danbury Railway Museum

When I was doing my research on Metro-North One-Day Getaways I discovered that the Danbury Railway Museum in the historic station and rail yard in Danbury also has a one-day getaway. I found the price from Fordham (a round-trip ticket and admission) is only $15.25, cheeper than the regular intermediate round-trip fare of $17.50 (if […]

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A Metro-North Day Trip to New Haven on 3 M8s, a Shoreliner and a Wheels and Peter Pan Bus around the Accident Site.

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 […]