Have made a few changes to our Wed 12/16 trip to Roosevelt Island. Have cut out the LIRR to Port Washington. Instead…Lv Binghamton before 6AM…probably to Lake Hopatcong for 1074’s 8:42 departure arriving Dover 8:55AM. Then #6628 lv 9:06AM Ar NYP 10:25AM where we’ll meet Steve and Ken at the LIRR. If nice weather, we’ll walk a long block east to Herald Sq. and get the F train to Roosevelt Ave.; if too cold, we’ll take a 1,2 or 3 to 42ndSt, then an N, R or Q to 34st then get the F train. Pastrami sandwiches seem the order for lunch; if nice, from M&D Deli and eat outside, if not so nice there is one place right at the F stop another not far away. After lunching, we’ll Tram to 59ths St and Lexington Ave for the 6 train to City Hall Station loop then to 14th St and the N or Q train to Astoria and back to Queens Plaza for the 7 train to Flushing then to GCT at 42nd St to see the MTA Museum Annex Christmas train layout. From there…we’ll judge the time and see what else we can do trying to get the 7 to it’s new West Side Terminal and walk to NYP from there. Full car out of Binghamton at the moment, another driver want to step in and see how many others want to go (riders share gas with drivers) from Binghamton or along the Rt81-380-80 corridor. Anyone else can of course join us anywhere enroute just please let me know in advance where and when. PM here, at ridewithmehenry@hotmail.com or check FB group RIDEWITHMEHENRY. You pay your fares and food…no extra charges.
Henry, how’d it go? Did you ride the 7 to the new station near the High Line?
Mike
After each trip I file a report on several FB pages and to my emailing list. Here is what I sent out today:
Fluidity is something a railfan learns in face of uncertainty and fast changing conditions. Such is the case that opened the train riding portion of Wed Dec 16th RIDEWITHMEHENRY venture. AIn a Vegas recording Sammy Davis, Jr. once announced at the beginning of a set, “the program scheduled to be cancelled at this time will now be heard”. Oh, yeah, we got out of Binghamton in great shape and arrived at Netcong station, parked, and boarded train 1074 on time and at Dover got mid train seats aboard train 6628 which departed on time toward New York’s Penn Station. That’s where we were headed, our tickets said that. And Ken Schumacher. would be waiting for us there. But as we were leaving Chatham station the murmur through the car was, “we’re being diverted to Hoboken for some reason”. Ok…been there done that. Call Ken let him know. But also caution him that whatever the problem the situation might clear up and we just might be going to NYP after all so I would call him back when leaving Newark. But it was Ken who got back to me at Secaucus to tell us that there was a disabled Amtrak train and our train was now carded to go to Hoboken for sure and that he was going to grab the next Hoboken bound train; at Hoboken we’d remap out our day’s schedule. And as we left Newark the announcement was we were on our way to Hoboken. And as we encountered the interlocking at Kearney we were being switched to the Corridor and were actually on our way to NYP…a little late, but on our way. A quick call to Ken who had just boarded a Hoboken bound train; but