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[Nexis4Jersey]

Wow I haven't posted since early September 2024 ...well here's every commuter rail train photo i've taken since.

Long Island Railroad


Forest Hills Station in the Early Evening










Douglaston Station on the Port Washington Branch





Hollis Station







Kew Gardens







Woodside





Montauk Branch Viaduct in Richmond Hill



Penn Station New York









Atlantic Terminal

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New Jersey Transit

Harrison



Westwood





New York Penn Station

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Metro North

Hudson Line

Spuyten Duyvil station











Philpse Manor Station









Croton Yard









Peekskill Station

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Metro North - Harlem Line

Grand Central











Harlem-125th Street





Harlem - Main Line in Mount Vernon



Crestwood Station







Tuckahoe

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Metro North - New Haven Line

New Rochelle











Harrison







Rye





Port Chester











Stamford





Norwalk



Danbury Branch & SoNo Tower Museum














Fairfield Metro -> renamed : Fairfield - Black Rock



New Haven

[Crawford]

Great pics!

Hope you continue to share your photos of the regional rail network. Love to see all the destinations.

[Busy Bee]

Thanks for posting these!

[ColDayMan]

Yeah, this was great! Thanks.

[Nexis4Jersey]

Long Island Railroad New Concourse

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Penn Station Access Route

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Signals at Summit





Gladstone Branch #481 entering the Bernardsville Interlocking





The Gladstone Branch at Basking Ridge Station in Bernard's Township,New Jersey

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Watchung Avenue Station

The Elevated Historic Watchung Avenue Station , constructed in 1904 by the New York & Greenwood Lake Railway







The Walnut Street Station Building constructed in 1953 on the then Boonton Branch.



The Former Lackawanna Terminal in Downtown Montclair , constructed in 1913 by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad and used by trains until 1981 when it was abandoned and replaced with the nearby Bay Street Station



Brick Church Station









The Westbound Short Hills station building constructed in 1907 by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad



Gladstone Branch #0419 departing Summit Station



The Wall Track at Summit Station leading into the Summit Yard just east of the station.



Secaucus Junction



The Blue & Green seats of the Metro North M3A Railcar in the Park Avenue Tunnel.

[Crawford]

New Haven Union Station is undergoing a $402 million expansion, which will include a new European-style glass headhouse and expanded platforms. This is in addition to the $120 million expansion at New Haven State Street Station.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/402-million-upgrade-havens-train-214611501.html

Stamford Station, which is the busiest suburban station in North America, is also moving forward with a major expansion.

And Hartford Union Station will be completely replaced with a major new station, but this is further down the line.

[Nexis4Jersey]

The Platform Extensions are a welcome, but the rest seems unneeded for New Haven. Stamford and Hartford need a complete rebuild but i'm not sure about moving the platform in Hartford as the curves can be straightened with the 84 rebuild.

[mrnyc]

making the new rails to trails park in newark safe —


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[White Pine]

What do people here on SSP think about the world cup fares? I get that there are financial and political issues involving FIFA, but the urban planner in me hurts to think about the whole story that parking was practically banned to get people to use transit, only for transit to bump up it's price to 150$ once they had a near monopoly. I get that it wasn't nj transits decision to limit parking and the economic model gives NJ the shaft, but still...

[FromSD]

Originally Posted by Nexis4Jersey

The Platform Extensions are a welcome, but the rest seems unneeded for New Haven. Stamford and Hartford need a complete rebuild but i'm not sure about moving the platform in Hartford as the curves can be straightened with the 84 rebuild.

I remember what passed for a New Haven railroad station before they finished renovating the existing station in the mid '80s. The temporary station was a tribute to plywood and plexiglass. It made the Amshacks look like palaces in comparison. The remodeled station we have now was a revelation. So I also wonder about the need to spend $400 million on enhancements to an already splendid facility. And the State Street station is barely a mile away. Does it really need to be that high a priority?

Better to spend that money on the track infrastructure itself. Isn't the stretch between New Haven and NYC the slowest on the entire Northeast Corridor? As someone in the linked article said, people want to get where they're going in half the time. A fancy rail station canopy doesn't help make that happen.

[Crawford]

CT is doing both. They're speeding up times on the New Haven-NYC corridor, and they're rebuilding stations. Both are necessary.

[Nexis4Jersey]

Originally Posted by Crawford

CT is doing both. They're speeding up times on the New Haven-NYC corridor, and they're rebuilding stations. Both are necessary.

No funding has been allocated for speeding up the New Haven Line , the original goal was to shave off 30mins, but that hasn't been talked about in years.

[Nexis4Jersey]

Originally Posted by FromSD

I remember what passed for a New Haven railroad station before they finished renovating the existing station in the mid '80s. The temporary station was a tribute to plywood and plexiglass. It made the Amshacks look like palaces in comparison. The remodeled station we have now was a revelation. So I also wonder about the need to spend $400 million on enhancements to an already splendid facility. And the State Street station is barely a mile away. Does it really need to be that high a priority?

Better to spend that money on the track infrastructure itself. Isn't the stretch between New Haven and NYC the slowest on the entire Northeast Corridor? As someone in the linked article said, people want to get where they're going in half the time. A fancy rail station canopy doesn't help make that happen.

State Street needs to be redone , it was put together in pieces. Both platforms can only support 3 car trains...the platforms aren't directly connected to each other nor is the Wooster Square neighborhood.