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A Day Trip to Get More of the Raritan Valley Line

Well today I took my first Railfan Trip of 2013, exploring more of the Raritan Valley Line and I now have photo essays of every station between Bridgewater and Newark. What made today more ridiculous for me (and a sign of NJ Transit’s strange fares where it can be cheeper to make a stopover) is […]

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A Day Trip to Philly to Finish the MFL and the Norresstown High Speed Line, Home via SEPTA to Levittown to Bus Route 127 to NJT to Newark to PATH, taking 3 hours and 45 minutes!

This is the fourt post (Post 1|Post 2|Post 3) about four trips over four days on a POH-YNY-NYP-NWK-PHL points run muli-city ticket I bought to ride VIA Cars on the Adirondack after Thanksgiving 2012 and to also get enough points for S+ status. After PATH took so long yesterday to get me home from Newark, […]

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A Day Trip on MegaBus to Philadelphia for a Keystone Service Points Run, Visiting a Friend, and the RiverLINE to New Jersey Transit to PATH back

The purpose of this quick day trip to Philly is to both see a friend who lives in South Jersey and also get a quafecta of 400 AGR S+ qualifying points by riding the Keystone Service for just $16 total (would have been $13 off-peak: Saturday or Monday through Thursday) on the last day of […]

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A Rainy Day on SEPTA before a Free Keystone Express Trip to Start an Adirondack Dome Car Spectacular

On Tuesday night I realized that the Yankees chances of making it to Game 6 of the ALCS were looking quite slim and in time for the I love NY 15% or my NARP 10% discounts, I decided it was time for my alternate and train oriented trip for the weekend. The plan, Ocean View, […]

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NJT to Linden then Metropark, Amtrak to a Free Stopover at Newark Airport (Upload) to Fully Photograph the AirTrain Monorail!

Today I took a little adventure to finally photograph the Newark Airport Monorail fully, because of a free connection I discovered in Amtrak’s reservation system. Tomorrow I’m taking the Maple Leaf to the Adirondack to the ferry to Burlington to visit some friends who are renting a house near St. Albans (don’t worry I’m taking […]

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A Day of Walking in Jersey and visiting 7 more stations, finishing the Bergen County Line from Allendale South

Well today I went on another New Jersey adventure to keep adding to my collection of stations and am now almost complete with the Bergen County Line except for the Ramseys! Taking the bus into Jersey from the GWB Bus terminal is my go to when I am in the mood for some station photography […]

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A Long Montclair Walk: Getting 5 of its open stations (and one recently closed)

Montclair-Boonton Line

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A 3 Day Weekend East… – Part 2

Monday June 14, 2010: Well after having a nice 48 hours at Mohunk, it was time to take my trip home, back to Colorado Springs. I first had a nice final morning and Lunch at Mohunk, and immediately after left for the hour drive (42 mile) south down the Thruway to Harriman–(32 Photos) where I […]

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A 3 Day Weekend East for a Family Reunion at the Mohunk Mountain House by FREX, MallRIDE, SkyRide, DIA Subway, Continental Airlines, Olympia Trails, Metro-North Hudson & Port Jervis Lines, NJT’s Northeast Corridor, AirTrain Newark, and the Colorado Springs Shuttle – Part 1

The rediculous title of this post is of the rediculous number of modes of transit I took during this weekend trip, the only modes ridden twice and backtracking was the round-trip flights on Continental Airlines and the Denver Airport Subway. Well as soon as I had settled into Colorado I had to fly back east […]