Tuesday Tour of the New Haven Line: Westport
Postcard view of the station, labeled as Saugatuck. This card was postmarked 1915. Today’s stop on our ongoing tour of the New Haven Line is Westport, a lovely station with a miniature identity crisis....
Monthly Archive: November 2011
Happy Thanksgiving, and a Grand Central photo of the day
It is that time again… Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you are having a great holiday, and as much fun as the folks in our utterly random photo of the day… Five rodeo stars arrive...
Chatting with the “Conductor to the Stars”
Last week I had the pleasure of hanging out with one of Metro-North’s coolest conductors – Bobby McDonough, author of the blog Derailed. On the way to South Norwalk, and then back to Grand...
Tuesday Tour of the New Haven Line: Talmadge Hill
Welcome to Talmadge Hill – the station just south of New Canaan on that eponymous branch of the New Haven Line. Although New Canaan station is quite charming, the remainder of the stations on...
The first week…
If you haven’t realized by now, I tend to shy away from discussing the various political issues surrounding the MTA. I like to stick around in the history zone, and talk more about art...
Riding the Harlem Line in the fall…
Riding the Harlem Line in the fall… it is sort of like this (in case you missed it on twitter last night): In fact my ride home last night was quite a lot like...