by Miles Taylor | Dec 12, 2018 | Miles on SEPTA
SEPTA is retiring its oldest kind of Regional Rail locomotive, but they gave it one last ride two weekends ago. A free express trip from Paoli to Suburban and back was run for the general public two weekends ago, and it was a lot of fun (save for some rabid railfans,...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 11, 2018 | Miles on SEPTA
I filmed this back in September and finally got around to finishing the editing. As it turns out, getting to upstate New York is not easy to do on a...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 9, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Does anyone else get annoyed at the way the MBTA releases its schedule changes now? “Please find your route at www.mbta.com/schedules/bus and check the December 23 schedule for specific changes.” I get that this is more intuitive for people who only care...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 4, 2018 | Miles on SEPTA
Trolley stations tend to be samey, so I’m combining these two into one post. This is the part of SEPTA where the El runs express in the center two tracks and the trolleys make these two local stops on the outer tracks, leading anyone passing through to think...
by Miles Taylor | Nov 28, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
A few years ago, I would’ve vehemently insisted on taking the NB 4 to its weekday rush hour-only terminus at “Industrial Park”, a full four miles past the regular terminus. Alas, Sam and I did our SRTA trip on a Saturday, so we couldn’t do an...
