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Civic Group Plans Next Chapter for Hawthorne Station Building

Mount Pleasant Today is preparing a commuter survey about what the fine people of Hawthorne would like to see go into the decripit, but hopefully not decripit for long, old station house that will be vacated by Mount Pleasant Taxi … Continue reading

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Possible Demise of Princeton’s ‘Dinky’

The tiny “Dinky” train that links Princeton University and Princeton Junction may be replaced by a bus line, reports the NY Times. The Dinky, a one-car train that makes the four-minute trip several times a day, has been in existence … Continue reading

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New Delhi Subway Better Than Yours

The subway system in New Delhi, India is the envy of the world, reports the NY Times. The system is called the Delhi Metro–not to be confused with the Metro Deli out in Brooklyn–and is freakishly on-time and clean, a … Continue reading

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Tales From the Rails

* On the 5:27 heading out of Gotham last night. Cattycorner to me in a six-seater is a traveler–woman of about 50, kinky brown Mrs. Roper-From-Three’s-Company hair, green t-shirt with an elephant and ‘Spirit of India’ on the front, ugly … Continue reading

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JerseyJim: ‘Caboose’ Catches Fire

More delays last night on New Jersey Transit, as a fire broke out in Berkeley Heights, stranding passengers to the east, traveling on the Gladstone Line.   I had just arrived home from the 5:17 train, when my brother called, … Continue reading

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PLANEJOTTING REDUX: Delta Debacle Continues

As we noted in these cyber-pages almost two months ago, the TJ clan was stuck in Atlanta after our Delta flight home from a Dominican vacation hit major storms and was re-routed. It certainly wasn’t Delta’s fault–the weather was way … Continue reading

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Maybury: Makeover Continues at Hawthorne Station

Town Supervisor Joan Maybury did get back to me late yesterday after my phone call last week, and said the town would get right on the fallen bike rack; she didn’t realize the thing was flatter than a drunk at … Continue reading

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Saugatucker: Getting ‘Stewed’ in the Bar Car

On the 7:05 New Haven train Friday, sitting next to a skinny Stamford student with a gleaming new iPad and white headphones drinking a Bud.  Next to him, sitting alone, is a fat 35-year-old guy in a painted-on red and … Continue reading

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An Open Letter To:

The M1 bus. I take you, M1 bus, every once in a while, when the mankind morass assembled at the 4-5-6 train escalators in Grand Central seems too foreboding, or these tired legs just don’t have the requisite spring to … Continue reading

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THE TRAINJOTTING READER: The Given Day

We shared an earlier passage of Dennis Lehane’s The Given Day a few months back–which also had Babe Ruth drinking heavily on a train. It’s a big ol’ 700-pager, but it’s interesting. Lehane of course does those Boston-based crime novels that … Continue reading

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