Recent content by Joe from PA

Lived in Phila during college, and now live in the suburbs. I am now 82, and rode on some old ones.

We did the run from Wawa, once. There is really nothing to see on the new span but trees. No "Oh look, there is this and that".

I live a 8 minute walk from our house to the Moylan/Rose Valley train station. Then the SEPTA train takes us to Philadelphia AMTRAK 30th Street Station in 35 minutes. Since we are old farts, the trip is free. From 30th street we could also get a train to the airport. We have a beach cottage in...

We just turn our suitcase over to a redcap, and hand him/her $5. They take us up to the lounge on the elevator. 20 min. before the train arrives, he comes up with our luggage, then takes us down on the elevator to the platform, and takes it to our roomettes.

Every trip, especially one with connections, is a "crap shoot". Here are a few of mine: Going to Phoenix from Philadelphia with a stopover in New Orleans. As usual, the Crescent arrived 2 hours late (9pm) in NO. Taxi to hotel, great time sight-seeing next day, overnight at hotel. Message from...

The "tall red box" was removed for the shooting of "The Miracle Worker" staring Ann Bancroft in 1961.

Most of my train riding as a kid was on the Lackawanna going to high school every day from Peapack-Gladstone to Bernardsville NJ. Never did a over-nighter on a train until I was 72 (Phila to Ft. Lauderdale, FL on the Silver Star).

I have traveled the NYC to Boston round-trip about 20 times. By all means, sit in the left side going to Boston. You will see MUCH more of the city skyline, Sunnyside Yard, Queens neighborhoods, approach curve to the Hell Gate Bridge, and towns along the way. OR, you could sit on the other side...

In NYC, just get a Red Cap to take your bags and you onto the train (tip $5. per bag). In NYC, that will also get you onto the train first, before the mobs are able to get downstairs to the platform. In Philadelphia, you will be helped by other passengers in getting your bags off of the overhead...

Hi, I live pretty close to you. I'm a 8 minute walk to the Moylan/Rose Valley local SEPTA train station.

The only production car that was "chopped" at the factory for a lower look. A lower windshield, custom doors, and real wire wheels made this car a real "looker". I was a 11 year-old car nut when these came out. A wealthy woman in our town owned a metallic grey one.

Lucky for my wife and I, our favorite train trip is the one we take a few times a year to visit our daughter's family near Boston. The Philadelphia to NYC section is OK, but the best part is leaving NYC and seeing the famous NYC skyline, then the "sunny side yards", then the neighborhoods of...

I tip because I'm glad I never had a job where I had to deal many times a day with the "public". For looks alone, not even a word, I would have been fired.

Facts of life: The roomette and the "bedroom" are both bunk beds (upper and lower). My wife and I are 80 and 82, so forget the climbing up and down like a monkey. One "Bedroom" often costs twice the price of two roomettes. I'm a early to bed/early to rise person. My wife is the opposite. We have...

We make 2 trips to Boston from Philadelphia each year. On the way up, we can change seats in NYC, since almost everyone gets off. The NYC mob is kept upstairs until the departing passengers are upstairs. Leaving the second Boston stop, we wait up front, since the train has loaded from the rear...