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 […]
Tag: Northeast Regional
Merry Christmas! Well, regular life got in the way of the SubwayNut this past November and December, with a far too over committed second semester of graduate school. I finally finished yesterday. I am now starting on a month off for winter break and have a bunch of stuff I’m anxious to get up on […]
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 […]
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 […]
The DC Metro is one of the only transit systems left in the US I haven’t done at all for my website. I just never quite got down to DC in its awkward position of being close enough for a long day trip but not far enough away for a real getaway. Probably the main […]
Today is the one year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy. I have my half day of work in Brooklyn before leaving around 1:30pm and decided I have to see what’s going on with the R train being supposedly. I headed over to what were once the Lawrence Street–(4 Photos) entrances and find the gates open with no […]
Monday, my first day back begins as a beautiful day. I don’t have any work commitments until Tuesday. My original plan is to perhaps visit Greystone, Glenwood or Ludlow before my YNY to NWK points run. I end up getting distracted catching up on things from this trip and don’t leave as early as I […]
I get distracted and don’t leave work until 5:10 which is in Downtown Brooklyn bear Borough Hall. My connecting my two trips segment today is on Springfield-bound Northeast Regional #148, departure time from Newark 6:10. I’m a bit worried and am really wishing I had bitten the bullet and bought a weekly MetroCard this week. […]
Introduction: This weekend I’m off to Syracuse to visit my grandmother and also ride the Adirondack Scenic Railway from Utica north to Thendara on Saturday, with intermediate SYR-UCA Amtrak fares $18 one-way and the unreliability of the busy CSX Empire Corridor these days I decided we’d just drive. We’ll I’ll do the driving I don’t […]
The main thing that spurred this Local Trains to Boston and Vermont trip was needing to take the train up and meet my parents in Windsor, Vermont where we have relatives. I’ve taken the train up to that station with the lowest ridership of any stop in the Northeast before but not in many years. […]