Just a quick travelogue for a weekend trip to NY
May 5, Amtrak 170 from BAL-NYP
Nothing out of the ordinary for a early morning train ride up the corridor to NYP. The train generally ran on time and we pulled into NY at 8:16, about 6 minutes late. According to my GPS receiver: average speed 71 MPH, max speed 124 MPH. The train seemed to be nearly full and folks were, not surprisingly, mainly interested in reading the paper, making phone calls or catching some extra Z's.
Granted, this trip was a general run of the mill trip that I have made several times in the past. That is, I certainly did not expect to see anything that I had not seen before. However, at one point I was gazing out the window and thought I saw an old rusted out GG-1 locomotive. I don't remember where we were when I saw this since, like many others, I caught a few Z's here and there.
I decided to be a 100% tourist and take double decker bus tours of dowtown Manhattan, Brooklyn and uptown Manhattan. The weather was perfect for riding around on the open top deck of the bus. I then traveled to Suffern, by way of New Jersey Transit, to attend the Northeast Astronomy Forum.
May 6, Amtrak 167 NYP-BAL
After another wonderful day at the astronomy show, I traveled back to NYC via New Jersey Transit. I ventured around Times Square for a while, grabbed some dinner and then headed back to Penn Station.
167's ride was pretty uneventfull, as expected. The train ran on time, or perhaps slightly ahead of schedule. Average/max speed was 70/123 MPH.
Deimos
May 5, Amtrak 170 from BAL-NYP
Nothing out of the ordinary for a early morning train ride up the corridor to NYP. The train generally ran on time and we pulled into NY at 8:16, about 6 minutes late. According to my GPS receiver: average speed 71 MPH, max speed 124 MPH. The train seemed to be nearly full and folks were, not surprisingly, mainly interested in reading the paper, making phone calls or catching some extra Z's.
Granted, this trip was a general run of the mill trip that I have made several times in the past. That is, I certainly did not expect to see anything that I had not seen before. However, at one point I was gazing out the window and thought I saw an old rusted out GG-1 locomotive. I don't remember where we were when I saw this since, like many others, I caught a few Z's here and there.
I decided to be a 100% tourist and take double decker bus tours of dowtown Manhattan, Brooklyn and uptown Manhattan. The weather was perfect for riding around on the open top deck of the bus. I then traveled to Suffern, by way of New Jersey Transit, to attend the Northeast Astronomy Forum.
May 6, Amtrak 167 NYP-BAL
After another wonderful day at the astronomy show, I traveled back to NYC via New Jersey Transit. I ventured around Times Square for a while, grabbed some dinner and then headed back to Penn Station.
167's ride was pretty uneventfull, as expected. The train ran on time, or perhaps slightly ahead of schedule. Average/max speed was 70/123 MPH.
Deimos