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| Clock Labs - City Transit Guides | * | Did you ever get lost in the
New York Subway system? Spending hours
hunting down an elusive subway map? Were you ever late at a business meeting
because you took the wrong line? Were you ever late at a party because your
usual line was stopped for repairs and you didn't know the other ways very
well? PocketMetro 2.1 is an application that runs on any Java-capable handset. It knows about each line and each station in the network and it can compute the shortest travel between two subway or light rail stations, instantaneously. Works on cell phones and Blackberry. Also Avaialble for: Berlin London Paris Screen shots of a trip from Pelham Bay Park to 242 van Courtlandt Park |
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| Everything NY | * | Everything NYC.com: your only stop for the finest NYC related products. Many items are Subway related. | ||||
| Train Tee Shirts | From EZ Merchandise a huge selection of unique and hot gifts. |
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| New York on Tap | Get your subway travel direction to
many bars in New York! This map combines Google's API with OnNYTurf's beautiful hand drawn subway map to present a database of over 1,600 New York City bars. |
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| Scale Products | * | From the Union Pacific Railroad to Disney World and Six Flags, to dozens of mom and pop businesses and everything in between, if you have a need for signals, locomotives, props, obstacles, exhibits or displays, please take a look at some of our past and current projects | ||||
| Headlight Large, 27" tall by 14" wide x 10" deep and features a 5000 hour bulb. They sell for $295.00 plus Shipping Please be sure to mention the JoeKorNer when ordering. |
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| ABRACADATA | Model railroad design and operation | |||||
| Brooklyn Pix | Brooklyn Collectibles (www.brooklynpix.com) has offered high-quality photographic views of Brooklyn and New York City neighborhoods to the public since 1980. The archives boast thousands of images of theatres, high schools, Coney Island, Ebbets Field, trolleys, railroads and subways, stores, and regular street scenes. Pictures are mostly from the 1890 to 1965 era. | |||||
| Kalmbach Publishing Co. | Trains Magazine Publisher | |||||
| Dave Keller's LIRR Book |
Photos in the book
include Pennsy-leased K4s “Pacific” class #5406 as she pulls Sunday-only train #4229 from Yaphank, G5s #25 is pulling westbound train #4227 from Central Islip State Hospital The pair of “Budd cars” is in “Scoot” service, laying up on the north siding at Patchogue |
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| Dave's Trains | Specializing in Postwar (1945 - 1969) Lionel Trains | |||||
| MS Train Simulator | Home page to MSTS with links to help forums. | |||||
| NY Subway.com | This New York Subway site is not affiliated with the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) of New York or any other government body, transit agency, provider or aiffiliate of the New York Subway system. However, it contains maps, news and information about the NYC Subway system. Recently added are directions to all three NY Area Airports. | |||||
| World Subway Map | Transit
Maps of the World , by Mark Ovenden is
available from
Amazon Books.From the Amazon page: Transit Maps of the World is the first and only comprehensive collection of historic and current maps of every rapid-transit system on earth. Using glorious, colorful graphics, Mark Ovenden traces the history of mass transit-including rare and historic maps, diagrams, and photographs, some available for the first time since their original publication. Transit Maps is the graphic designer’s new bible, the transport enthusiast’s dream collection, and a coffee-table essential for everyone who’s ever traveled in a city. |
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| Train-Sim.Com | This site is intended to serve as a
central meeting place for the train-sim community Each forum has links to files you can download, message forums, information like FAQs and more. See Fred Fred Barbieri's NYSubway Sim. |
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| TrainSimmer.com. | The Web's number one Train Simulation site | |||||
| Railfan & Railroad | R&R magazine on line edition from Carstens Publications. My favorite since issue #1 in 1974! | |||||
| Time is Ticking | TTC face Watches. | |||||
| Trains on Tracks | Model railroad shop in Chelmsford, MA specializing in O/O27 and G scales. | |||||
 Lionel Trains |
The Lionel corporation of our childhood. This includes Quicktime files of some of their historic models. | |||||
The Restaurant by George Becker |
"The Restaurant" is a narrative of life in the North Bronx during the 1940's , as viewed by the author. It centers around a restaurant that was owned and operated by his dad at the Woodlawn Subway Station. It also has a lot to say about the neighborhood near the Mosholu Parkway Subway station, where he and his family lived, and a has a few words about the Yankee Stadium. So, whether you are getting this book for yourself or as a gift for someone else, we will be taking a ride on the IRT over Jerome Avenue to a time and place where boys had to wear knickers, and were told that when they grew up they could wear long pants, a place where street games and chalked up streets were the norm. | |||||
Here is a selection of train stories excerpted from:
by B.A.Botkin & Alvin F.Harlow
Bonanza Books, New York, 1953
| It was 1953, President Eisenhower was about to inaugurated and a GG-1 crashed into Washington Union Station. | |
| The Superintendent of the Erie was on a train returning to Hoboken and got tired of waiting for the westbound! | |
| Poem about Ms. Snow and her dress of White on the road of Anthracite. | |
| The story of the last train operated by Casey. | |
| This is a narrative given by an engineer who saved himself and his train by some quick thinking. | |
| These items are quotes from railroad employees who were called upon to provide testimony in railroad accidents. | |
| The Engineer's Exam | |
| Railroad Laws of an interesting kind | |
| Exchange of Priviledges | Two RR presidents negotiating free rides |
| Kate Shelly | A poem by MacKinlay Kantor. This story is true; Kate Shelley was The Iowa Heroine who crawled across the Des Moines River Bridge in 1881 to save a Chicago and North Western passenger train |
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A friend found a link about this wreck. It is acually a museum recreation of a train that crashed through the buffers at Montparnasse Station, Paris in 1895! Follow the link to rad about both the original and the museum. |
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| The Photographers Right | PDF file from a Portland, Oregon Lawyer. Some interesting points related to photographer security issues. |
| 4-6-2 Pacific, 4-6-4 Hudson, 4-8-8-4 Big Boy and more Steam engine whell arrangements and their nick names (from NMRA data sheet) |
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| Fare Evasion | How passengers and employees tried to beat the fares. This is for historic information only and is NOT meant as a how to. |
| Frozen in Grand Central Terminal | This is a prank on a "grand" scale. Over 200 people gathered at Grand Central Station in New York to pull off a 'frozen in place' act. The onlooking travelers who weren't part of the act were mystified as to what was going on. |
| And for the exact opposite | Sound of Music - Central Station Antwerp (Belguim) |
| Switching puzzle | Get two trains to pass each other on a single track line. |
| Military Specifications | One (humorous) take on why US railroads have standard gauge 4'-8.5". The Snopes Urban Legend page explanation. |
| Wayne's Trains Jokes(?) | From a friend of the JoeKorNer. |
| When the Lights go out | Two short stories about what happens on the subway when the power goes out. |
| Rocket Science | Rocket Science as it pertains to railroading. |
| Subway World Series | History of all of the Subway Series and other intra city
contests by Michael J. Rudolf |
| Menu Menu | A collection of menus going back as far as WWII. Hearty Appetite |
| The Russian Soyuz spacecraft on a TRAIN | The Soyuz TMA-13 is transported to its launchpad for the Oct. 10, 2008 flight (AFP) |
| Police chase on the track! | See this police officer is chasing a motorcycle and he crosses a railroad track and the cycle goes on the ROW and ... |
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| Rich Ahrens | The Grade Crossing | Northeast Rail Links | ||||||
| Antonio Allah | Metro Transit | The goal of METRO Transit is to provide a web space for all those interested in rapid rail and bus transit. This is the place to share ideas, proposed theories, submit entries, keep a journal and submit pictures that you can contribute into our wonderful gallery. | ||||||
| Bay Ridge Model Railroad Club | Bay Ridge | The Bay Ridge Model Railroad Club, inc. organized in 1946 is the merger of two former Model Railroad Clubs, The Brooklyn Model Railroad founded in 1932 and the Shore Haven Central founded in 1936. The Present Club was formed in 1947 and incorporated in 1955 as a non-profit organization to construct, maintain, operate and display the Central Connecting Railroad also the Central City Traction Company and to provide recreation for the members and guests in the Hobby of Model Railroading and Trolley. The club quarters of the organization are at 28 Marine Ave., Brooklyn, New York 11209 and occupies a space 30 feet x 60 feet. | ||||||
| Bob Andersen | LIRR | An interesting history of the LIRR. Early History (1834-1900) The Early Pennsylvania RR Years and Electrification Competing Railroads LIRR Firsts Searching for Abandoned ROW's Abandoned Stations And more |
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| Fred Barbieri | Go to the Train-Sim.Com site and register to download. Then find the file nysubway.zip in the File Library. Look at the Readme file to find the other files that need to be downloaded. | Fred has put together a SIM of the IRT. while it's
not an attempt to exactly model the IRT, it certainly has the flavor. You can
operated a train of R-22's or Lo-V's in each of four acivities. Train at 225th St and View from cab |
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| Fred added a second IRT layout (with a fictional
light rail line) in September 2005. Included in the load are two activities
designed by yours truly Look for the file f1_irt.zip |
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| New for 2006 Fred has done it again. This time a route that includes the 6th and 8th ave lines from Manhattan and the Bronx to Brooklyn. There is also a new IRT layout included. Look for the file f1_ind.zip | This time Fred has almost duplicated the IND between
upper Manhattan and the Bronx to lower Manhattan. In addition there is some
free lance work through 'Brooklyn' and an IRT route with two trunk lines from
Brooklyn to the Bronx. Trains may operate on both routes and there are
connections between them. Here are a few pictures along the IND route: IND-183 and IND Tremont And a few IRT shots: IRT -1 - IRT -2 IRT -3 - IRT And my favorite: Command Center, we have a problem! The Philadelphia Experiment meets the Microsoft Train Simulator |
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| New in 2007. Fred has made some improvements to his original Subway route. It's F1TRANV2.zip on Train-Sim.Com. He added a representation of the South Ferry loop (from what he tells me, loops are difficult in MSTS). He also connected two of the dead ends (more loops), so I was able to build an activity that tours all of the lines. I set it up as a fan trip using a four car Lo-V train. All of the other trains are R-15 or R-142 trains. |
Some screen shots (these open in the same new
window: 215th Yard Fordham-2 Fordham-3 Fordham-4 Fordham-5 125th St Beverly Pelham |
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| New in 2007. Fred has designed a Third Ave el
layout that simulates the line between the Bronx and South Ferry in the steam
era. Some of the features in this layout include horse drawn wagons on the
street and steam engines pulling coaches on the el. |
Look for the file f13rdave.zip in the Train-Sim.Com library. You will also need to download a few other files for cars and engines. Read the documentation file in the download. | |||||||
| Steve Baldwin | Train Photos | This is a FLICKR page, but you do not have to register to view the photos from the 1970's. GG-1, PA-1 (diesel - not PATH), EL commuter trains and much more. | ||||||
| Kevin Barsky & Trevor Logan | New York City Transit Family | Page of NYC Transit links. | ||||||
| George Becker | The Restaurant |
"The Restaurant" is a narrative of life in the North Bronx during the 1940's , as viewed by the author. It centers around a restaurant that was owned and operated by his dad at the Woodlawn Subway Station. It also has a lot to say about the neighborhood near the Mosholu Parkway Subway station, where he and his family lived, and a has a few words about the Yankee Stadium. So, whether you are getting this book for yourself or as a gift for someone else, we will be taking a ride on the IRT over Jerome Avenue to a time and place where boys had to wear knickers, and were told that when they grew up they could wear long pants, a place where street games and chalked up streets were the norm. | ||||||
| Jon Bell | HBLR in JerseyCity | Story and photos of the HBLR Line | ||||||
| S. Berliner | Rail and hobby page | Links to many items of railfan interest. | ||||||
| James Bow | No planes, Mostly trains, and no automobiles | Filled with links to many transit and railroad sites. | ||||||
| Jan Bochman | BAHN Home Page | After more than a year of enjoying this program, the author, Jan Bochmann's web page was found. It has an English translation to the menu file. Visit, register, and download the Menu file. | ||||||
| Joe Brennan | Joseph Brennan | Abandoned stations & other interesting subway and rail subjects. | ||||||
| BEACH PNEUMATIC | by Joseph Brennan Alfred Beach's Pneumatic Subway and the beginnings of rapid transit in New York an original web publication copyright 2004 by Joseph Brennan |
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| History of Northeast Corridor | From the opening paragraphs of the document:
American railroad passenger services of the past
are usually discussed in generalized or fragmentary ways. Emphasis is often
given to the number of different routings, or to iconic name trains. I thought
it would be interesting to get down to details on some specific part of the
railroad system, and see exactly what train service was available. This has to
include the ordinary trains that furnished most of the transportation. |
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| Doug Cameron, James Lalande, Mark Lanctot |
Railfanning @ Northbay | 345 KM north of Toronto | ||||||
| See the Railfan Kit | Some things to think about before your next railfan trip. | |||||||
| Clint Chamberlin | GG1 Photo links | Links to WWW photos of PRR electric locomotives class GG1. Organized by paint job, number, railroad etc. | ||||||
| Chao-Hwa Chen | Home Page | Links to Subway Pages | ||||||
| Chicago L History | Chicago "L" | The internet's largest resource for information on Chicago's rapid transit system! | ||||||
| Chris Slaight | TransitPics.com | Photos from some recent subway trips | ||||||
| Christopher D. Coleman | GG1 Page | This site is for the virtual preservation of the standard electric locomotive of the world, the Pennsylvania Railroad's GG1 | ||||||
| Dennis Colligan | Light Rail Sacramento | Light Rail Sacramento CA Photos of Light Rail Trains and Early 1900's Vintage Historic Street at Sacramento CA This is a link to the Webshots photo system. |
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| V L Condon | Steam Engines | Archive of steam engine photos (with sound) | ||||||
| Bob Coolidge | Bob Coolidge's Trains | Here you'll find a selection of transportation photos taken over the years. I hope you enjoy viewing how things used to be and a few recent shots of things as they are. | ||||||
| Dave's Trains, Inc. | Dave's Trains | Specializing in Postwar (1945 - 1969) Lionel Trains | ||||||
| Kris Datta | SUBWAY CAR DATASHEET . Adobe PDF reader is required to view this file |
Compiled and summarized by Kris from information gathered from various sources. Class by class, car number by car number of every car class currently operating on the NYC Subway and those that have been deep sixed. | ||||||
| Dave | Rail Pictures | Large assortment of photos from many states and some rail properties. | ||||||
| Kenny Deluk | Glasgow, Scotland | This site is to display Ken's collection of transport
badges and related items, from Glasgow, Scotland. Although Glasgow has seen many different operators and forms of transport over the years, my main interest is in collecting items from Glasgow Corporation Tramways/Transport and it's successors, Greater Glasgow PTE, Strathclyde PTE, and Strathclyde's Buses Ltd. |
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| Lorraine B. Diehl | Penn Station | "The Late, Great Pennsylvania Station", a book by Lorraine B. Diehl, is a beautifully illustrated remembrance of the old Penn Station. | ||||||
| Doug | New South Wales Tram Roll Signs | A DISPLAY OF NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT TRAMWAYS DESTINATION ROLLS | ||||||
| Richard Einhorn | Model Railroads of Long Island | Links to Long Islanders' model railroad web pages. | ||||||
| George Elwood | Fallen Flags | Thousands of Rail and Trolley photos of system long gone. | ||||||
| Alan Flavell's | BAHN Pages | A fantastic train layout simulator. (It's in German - but there are English help files here too) | ||||||
| Flying Yankee Restoration | Flying Yankee | Vision: "To utilize this timeless symbol of American innovation and technology to reconnect ourselves, our neighbors, and our guests to the character of New England and the heritage of our railroads." The Flying Yankee Restoration Group | ||||||
| Joseph Frank | EL and TROLLEY System | In 1/4" O scale | ||||||
| H. George Friedman, Jr. | Canal St. New Orleans | When electric traction fans think of four track
street railway operation, they usually think first of Market Street in San
Francisco. But another such operation, perhaps less well known but no less
spectacular, took place on Canal Street in New Orleans. In fact, Canal had
stretches of four, five, six, and even eight track operation over portions of
its length. A study of over 500 postcards and images. |
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| David-Paul Gerber | The Station Reporter | A Site for Station Agents, CTAs. Revenue Employees and Rail fans | ||||||
| Arthur John Huneke | THE LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD | YOUR ONLINE MUSEUM OF THE LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD and GALLERY OF RAILROAD PHOTOS | ||||||
| JLG | The JLG Collection | A friend of the JoeKorNer. Miscellaneous scans of interesting items. | ||||||
| Bernard S. Greenberg | NX/UL Signal Control | Simulates an NX interlocking machine, complete with cab view train operation. | ||||||
| Rich Greene | The Richard E Green Homepage | Excellent scale track diagrams of MN, LIRR, SEPTA, and NJT | ||||||
| Heinz Hammer | Routes Page | A look at the lighter side of public transit around the world | ||||||
| Mike Harrington | Mike's Rail Photos - Mostly PCC's | Many photos of PCC and other trolleys in a number of cities. | ||||||
| Rich Hartzog | EXONUMIA Links Featuring | Comprehensive links to articles of interest to all collectors of tokens, medals, buttons, badges, ribbons and other small collectibles, including topics such as Political, World's Fair, Americana, Franklin Mint ®* and other modern mints, etc. | ||||||
| Pierce Haviland | NJ, NY & CT Railroad Page | Photos information history about NYC metro lines | ||||||
| Ed Hobbs | B&O Rule Book | Ed took the rule book and turned it into an interactive web page. This is a great way to learn how a railroad puts together those rules that govern the operation of trains. | ||||||
| Mark Kavenagh | Transit Page | Over 400 photos of rapid transit and railroad systems in over 40 cities in 7 countries on 3 continents! | ||||||
| Dave Keller | Long Island Rail Road Photos &
Recollections LIRR Book for sale. |
Over 5000 negatives covering the LIRR (steam, diesel and electric), Stations, MOW and misc., BEDT, Staten Island Rapid Transit, Hudson & Manhattan, N.Y. Westchester and Boston, New York City Street Railways, and New York City Elevated Railways. | ||||||
| B Klapouchy's | H&M History | German translated to English history of the H&M - PATH lines. | ||||||
| Steve Lynch (Three sites) |
Rahway Valley | Web site with maps and photos of the Rahway Valley line. | ||||||
| Trains Are Fun | Links to many LIRR pages | |||||||
| NY and Western | The New York & Western Railroad. Founded in 1951 as a Class 1 subsidiary bridge route for traffic linking the New England and Mid-Atlantic States, it is "The Tri-State Gateway" | |||||||
| Alex LaBianca | Alex's Web Page | Information about working and riding NYCT subways from the perspective of a Train Operator. | ||||||
| Phyllis M.LaVietes | Home Page | Home page of a former Brooklynite, with an interesting subway interest! | ||||||
| Dave Lev | Models Buzz Forums | Models Buzz Forums: Models are the real thing. | ||||||
| Christopher Livett | Transit Toronto | Web site devoted to Toronto's transportation system. | ||||||
| Iain Logan | Electric Soup | Rail related pages from Scotland | ||||||
| Mike's PCC's | Mike's PCC's | Photos and links to mostly PCC's | ||||||
| A. Richard Miller | Sunnyside | Web page devoted to Sunnyside Queens. | ||||||
| Modern Ruins | NYC Putnam Division Paulinskill Viaduct |
This page is dedicated to all the folks who've seen abandoned buildings by the roadside and thought, "I wonder who used to live there?" | ||||||
| A. H. Morscher | Morscher's Railroad Images | Photo index that may be sorted by date, loctation, or railroad. | ||||||
| Paul Matus | The Third Rail On line | Periodical on line magazine | ||||||
| Christopher Muller | RailServe System | RailServe provides over 1,000 rail-related links, a search engine, railfan message board, chat room, and more | ||||||
| Bob Oliver (formerly of New York State) |
Links from Japan |
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| Steve Okonski | Railroad Baron Game | Based on the board game. | ||||||
| Steve Olsen | New York City Model Transit Association | Absolutely the most incredible models of NYC transit subjects I've ever seen. Worth the visit. | ||||||
| Mike Patrick | Grand Central Stories | Web pages devoted to Grand Central
Terminal. Anyone know where this moved to? |
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| Dave Pirmann |  New York Subway Resources |
Photos, BAHN layouts, History and much more. | ||||||
| Jim Poulos | BMT Lines | Great web site devoted to the BRT and BMT Lines now part of the NYC Subway System. | ||||||
| Gary Owen | SIRT South Shore Page |
In Gary's words:Whenever our family would drive through the Verrazano Bridge toll plaza, my older brother, Mike, would point out an old railroad bed that lay abandoned alongside the highway. One time during the 1980s, he and I actually followed the entire right of way (ROW). We didn’t take any photos, which we regret. In 2003, I began collecting photos of what was once known as the Staten Island Rapid Transit (S.I.R.T.). |
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| Fred Pohl | Historic
Philadelphia San Diego Light Rail Philadelphia Girard Line Tampa Trolleys SEPTA Silverliners MFSE Northeast Corridor Riverline CSX - in Florida Tampa SCL Caboose Pinellas PArk Ocala Model Trolley Meet UPRR in Las Vegas Largo Central Ride on Model RR |
Photo albums from a friend of the JoeKorNer. | ||||||
| Quinto Rapacioli's | SafeBus Page | The WWW page from the fellow who taught me all about bus operations. (Yes I know, this is a rail page, but Quinto is a good friend and he made a link to the JoeKorNer) | ||||||
| Ribbon Rail Productions | Railroad Historical Page | Clipart; more links to Museums, Clubs, Histoical Societies, Tourist Lines. | ||||||
| Rapid T. Rabbit | A Tribute to the Third Avenue El | On You Tube | ||||||
| Redbirds of the deep | The Redbirds | The New Jersey SCUBA Diving web page An interesting page of photos of the redbirds in service and in the deep. Some even show the same cars in service and as reefs. |
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| Bill Russell | Penny Bridge | New York City Metro Rail Resources | ||||||
| Dave Rutan | DLW-Sussex Branch | A memorial to the Sussex Branch of the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western Railroad December 11, 1854 - October 2, 1966 |
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| Shriver | DC Photos | Photos of the Washington DC street car system | ||||||
| Chris Slaight | TransitPics.com | Photos from some recent subway trips | ||||||
| Society of Model Engineers | SoME | The Oldest model railroad club in America | ||||||
| Leif Spångberg | Tramway Index | This is the index page many different www-documents, mainly about tramways, buses, subways, trolleybuses, light railways and railways in primarily Scandinavia and Europe. | ||||||
| Robert T. Sestero | Railroad Signals | RAILROAD SIGNALS of the U.S. aka Train Signals A comprehensive site covering American Railroad Signals. |
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| Paul Shaw | Helvetica and the New York City Subway | There is a commonly held belief that Helvetica is the signage typeface of the New York City subway system, a belief reinforced by Helvetica, Gary Hustwit’s popular 2007 documentary about the typeface. But it is not true—or rather, it is only somewhat true. Helvetica is the official typeface of the MTA today, but it was not the typeface specified by Unimark International when it created a new signage system at the end of the 1960s. | ||||||
| Michael Steinberg | Hoboken Terminal | The Unofficial NJ TRANSIT Website, serving the World Wide Web since 1994. This is where you will find technical information on one of the largest commuter railroads in the United States, New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. This is the place for photographs, rosters, historical information, a forum, links, stories, and other "railfan" information. | ||||||
| Henry J Sundermeyer | Raildata.RailFan | Good resource for data about the fallen flags of Conrail (RIP) | ||||||
| Subway Buff | The Station Reporter | A comprehensive site featuring station-by-station descriptions of subway, light rail, and commuter rail systems. | ||||||
| Train and Railroad Simulator programs | Train Simulators | Community page with links to help forums and downloads. | ||||||
| Raildriver | If you use the MSTS or any other
trian simulation program, you need RailDriver. |
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| And if you want to use Raildriver on a VISTA PC with MSTS, you need this $5.00 shareware program from Germany. | ||||||||
| Time-Consuming Productions | Semaphores | "The Internet Site Dedicated to Preserving Our Signaling Heritage" | ||||||
| Wayne Vivola | WAYNE'S TRAINS | Collectable model and toy train pages This is the Wayne's Trains Jokes folks. |
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| Kevin Walsh | Forgotten NYC | Great web site containing photos of long gone scenes from New York City. | ||||||
| Rod's Rail Pages | Rodsrailpage | Photos from Rod Williams of Melbourne, Australia |
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Sites (suggest a link)
| AAPRCO | The American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners Our mission is to promote the operation, ownership, and enjoyment of the Private Passenger Railcar. |
| About Train | A Valuable Train Information Resource and Directory. |
| Alaska Railroad | You'll know from the very moment you climb aboard the Alaska Railroad you're riding on the best train in the world. |
| AMTRAK | USA National Passenger Trains |
| Portal Bridge | Project information about replacing the Portal Bridge between Newark and New York on the NEC. |
| Friends of AMTRAK FOA Yahoo Group |
Friends of Amtrak, by Craig S. O'Connell, is an internet advocacy effort supporting continued funding for Amtrak by providing information on legislation and Amtrak operations. Friends of Amtrak has been working on behalf of Amtrak since 1995. |
| AAR | Association of American Railroads |
| Austrailian Railroads New South Wales Railway Country Link Country lines Cityrail Sydney city and inter-urban lines Olympic Games train services |
Links suggested by Ian Brady of Waverton, Sydney, NSW in honor of the 2000 Olympics. |
| Baltimore MTA | Maryland Mass Transit Administration - Baltimore and MARC service |
| Bombardier Transport | Subway and light rail equipment manufacturer |
| Burlington Northern/Santa Fe | |
| Canadian National | |
| CONRAIL | |
| Flying Scottsman | This is the official home on the web of Flying Scotsman Railways. History and currnet status of this famous British engine. |
| The Luxury Trains | Train tours of India |
| MARC | Washington DC - Maryland Commuter lines |
| Middletown & Hummelstown Railroad | Scenic Train Rides on the Middletown & Hummelstown Railroad. This road is also a freight RR. |
| New Jersey Transit ARC Tunnel |
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| Corporate Page S. Berliner III Webmaster Bill Russell Webmaster |
The New York & Atlantic Links |
| Norfolk - Southern | |
| Palaces on Wheels | Travel in India on a really first class train |
| Railroad.net Homepage | Links to many railroad related web resources. |
| Reading & Northern | Formerly the Reading, Blue Mountain and Northern. A real RAILFAN friendly line. Check out the Train Watching page. |
| Train Travel Rail Enthusiasts |
Recreation Resources Directories of liesure time activities. |
| Safe Driving Video | Some great steam clips used to show good driving habbits - produced in 1935 by Chevrolet ! |
| Shohola Township, Pike County, Pa. | Shohola,the Lenni Lenape native American word for "Place of
Peace", shares the name of a Township, Creek and Village on the Delaware
River. This is a web page with the history of this town on the old Erie Railroad. Follow the links for some interesting reading. |
| US DOT | United States Department of Transportation |
| Union Pacific | Great photos of the lines and equipment |
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| American Public Transportation Association | APTA | |||||
| Friends of AMTRAK FOA Yahoo Group |
Friends of Amtrak, by Craig S. O'Connell, is an internet advocacy effort supporting continued funding for Amtrak by providing information on legislation and Amtrak operations. Friends of Amtrak has been working on behalf of Amtrak since 1995. | |||||
| Atlanta | MARTA - Photos Not allowed | |||||
| Bay Area Rapid Transit | BART | |||||
| Baltimore | Baltimore MTA | |||||
| 100th Anniversary NYCT construction | Engineering News Record Engineers Are Digging Deep To Rebuild New York’s Subways New York City’s subway turns 100 with $2-billion program to improve functionality and aesthetics (4/12/2004 Issue) By Aileen Cho |
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| Subway and light rail equipment manufacturer | Bombardier Transport | |||||
| Boston | MBTA Animation of Boston Green line beyond Lechmere. Point to a station and see the plan, click on a station and see an animation at the platform level. |
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| The darker side of Boston Editied by Mark Richards | Bad Transit | |||||
| Chicago Transit Authority | CTA | |||||
| From the CTA Blue + Green = Pink Using the reactivated Paulina Connection, some 54th/Cermak trains will be routed via Lake to the Loop. |
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| Chicago MetroRail | MetroRail | |||||
| Cleveland, Ohio | Regional Transit Authority | |||||
| Dallas, TX | DART Main Page DART Green Line construction |
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| Denver | Denver RTD | |||||
| Electirc Railway Journal - circa 1930 | The Electric Railway Journal is available as PDF scans of various issues from the 1930's. I quickly found articles about the design of the IND R-1 cars in the June 1931 issue. | |||||
| Federal Transit Administration. US Dot department responsible for transit issues | US FTA | |||||
| Los Angeles | LA-MTA | |||||
| Miami, Fla | Metro Dade Transit | |||||
| Multi-City Guide. (suggested by Donald White) |
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| New Jersey Transit | NJTransit Full web site information and links Interactive Secaucus Transfer !00th Anniversary of Hoboken Terminal (PDF File) Portal Bridge - Project information about replacing the Portal Bridge between Newark and New York on the NEC.
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| New York City | MTA Web Site | |||||
| The New York Stop | A Valuable New York Information Resource and Directory. | |||||
| Guide on how to get to the New York Area Airports from New York City | NYSubway.com directions to all three NY Area Airports. | |||||
| Address to address guide to riding the NYC Subway system. Two different sites. | Hop Stop Works in IE and Netscape 7+ |
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| Norfolk, Va Tide Light Rail Simulation | The Tide light rail will extend 7.4 miles on an east to west alignment from the East Virginia Medical Center through downtown Norfolk, continuing along the Norfolk Southern right-of-way, adjacent to I-264, to Newtown Road. Eleven stations will be constructed along the route with four park and ride locations that provide access to major areas such as Norfolk State University, Tidewater Community College (Norfolk Campus), Harbor Park, City Hall, MacArthur Center, and the Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. Service is set to begin in 2010. | |||||
| PATCO - Lindenwold Line | PATCO | |||||
| Philadelphia, Pa | SEPTA 100 Years of the Market Street Elevated Line from the Philadelphia Inquirer |
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| Pittsburgh, Pa | PATransit | |||||
| PATH (NY-NJ) | PATH | |||||
| Portland TriMet | Tri Met web page Max Green line |
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| St Louis | MetroLink | |||||
| New Mexico Railrunner - Albuquerque | New Mexico Railrunner The commuter line through Albuquerque, New Mexico Rails through the Fire! |
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| Shoreline East - New Haven to New London | SL EAST | |||||
| Roosevelt Island Tramway | RI Tramway | |||||
| San Diego, Ca | North County Transit District, NCTD including the Sprinter | |||||
| San Francisco, Ca | Cable Cars MUNI |
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| Real time track - car status of the Muni Subway under Market St. Watch the trains move between Church and Embarcadero. |
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 Mobilizing the Region |
Tri-State Transportation Campaign
News and opinion from the Tri-State Transportation Campaign. Updated daily, Monday-Friday. The MTA Fuels the Upstate Economy, TooThe Argument for the Ravitch Plan to aid the MTA finances |
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| Watch the Acronym! | Is it the South Lake Union Trolley or Streetcar? | |||||
| Toronto Canada | TTC | |||||
| Traffic and Transportation Start Page Links to both Transit and traffic information |
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| Washington, DC | WMATA |
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| Air Horns | This page provides information on North American diesel locomotive air horns. We have attempted to provide detailed and accurate information regarding the many different types of diesel locomotive air horns that have been used in North America. |
| Difficult to find, but a nice operation. | BaltimoreStreetcar Museum |
| Brooklyn City Streetcar Company, Inc | The Spirit of Brooklyn Rides the
Trolley Brooklyn: trolleys crisscrossing its streets; the Dodgers, heroes of the working class; Coney Island, America’s Playground; the bustling piers, home of one of the greatest commercial empires in the world; a unique accent recognized far and wide. Not just a place; a universal state of mind. |
| Conecticut Electric Railway Association | CERA Online |
| Electric Railroaders' Association | ERA |
| Essex Steam Train Essex Ct. |
The Essex Steam Train and Riverboat ride is a fun-filled trip for
adults and children of all ages! Two coal-fired locomotives available to pull our collection of lovingly restored railroad cars. |
| H&M Jersey City Powerhouse | This is a preservation group looking for support for rebuilding this facility. Joe Korman and the JoeKorNer are NOT making recommendation either way, just posting the link. |
| Inland Empire Railway Historical Society | Inland Empire Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society at Spokane, Washington |
| Lehigh Valley RR Links | LV Web Sites (arranged in order of estimated usefulness to LV modelers) |
| Illinois Railway Museum | The Illinois Railway Museum, as you see it today, is the result of decades of effort by a dynamic group of dedicated volunteers. All of the buildings, track, locomotives and cars were assembled here at Union on what was once farmland. Our main line trackage was laid on the vacant right-of-way of the Elgin & Belvidere Electric railway. Why would rational adults freely contribute so much of their time and treasure to creating this repository of railroad history? |
| Middletown & Hummelstown Railroad | Scenic Train Rides on the Middletown & Hummelstown Railroad. This road is also a freight RR. |
| MRIA | Model Railroad Industry Association |
| National Capital Trolley Museum | DC Transit and predecessors |
| NMRA | National Model Railroad Association |
| New York Postcards | A USGenWeb Archives Web Site |
| Pennsylvania RR | Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical Society |
| Flying the Subway Express | Modern Mechanix artcile from 1937 about the 'NEW' IND subway. |
| Railroad Museum of Long Island | The boiler from engine LIRR steam engine #39 is now at the Strasburg RR backshop undergoing refurbishment.This is a link to the Lancaster OnLine video. |
| Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania | The Museum was officially opened in 1975, and has steadily grown in its collections of historic equipment and railroad materials, in its public programs, and in its prestige as a world-class museum of railroad history. |
| Roster of Preserved North American Electric Railway Cars | This roster contains over 2,000 preserved historic electric railway cars which operated on North American electric railways. Each roster entry contains known information about the car's configuration, equipment and ownership history. Brief histories are available for some cars, as well as photos. |
| The San Diego Model Railroad Museum | The mission of the San Diego Model Railroad Museum is to preserve the heritage of railroading through a series of miniature representations of California railroads; research and preserve the history of model railroading; and educate the public in the many different aspects of railroading. |
| Shore Line Trolley Museum Formerly the Branford Trolley Museum. |
BERA |
| Seashore Trolley Museum Kennebunkport, Maine. |
Seashore |
| Society of Model Engineers | The Oldest model railroad club in America |
| Steamtown National Historic Site Scranton, Pa |
Steamtown |
| Strasburg Railroad | America's oldest short-line railroad, where you'll ride authentically restored passenger cars pulled by a huge, coal-burning steam locomotive. |
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| BAHN That great simulation program from Germany. Version 3.84 is current - some of the JoeKorNer files require it Version 3.81 or 3.83 is required for most of the NYC subway and rail layouts Bahn 3.84 was released July 2007, however, many of my layouts will not run directly, because of the way multi-level track crossings are handled. See notes for each zip set. |
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| Chicago
L's Requires BAHN 3.84 This will also work on BAHN 3.85 |
Four layouts of the Chicago L system
including: 1940 - Before the subways opened 1950 - State St ans part of Dearborn subways opened 1975 - Dan Ryan median opened and through rout with Lake via the Loop 2007 - O'Hare, Midway and Pink lines open. Lake-Southside and Howard-Dan Ryan trhrough routed |
| Philadelphia
Rail Systems Requires BAHN 3.83 or 3.84 |
Philadelphia has it all - Subway,
elevated, light rail, PCC trolley, high speed interurban, heavy rail. This
simulation shows it all: Broad St Subway Market Frankford Regional Rail Subway Surface light rail Girard Ave PCC cars Media and Sharon Hill Norristown High Speed NJT Atlantic City service There are two layouts in the zip file, one is for version 3.83 and the other is 3.84 Additional changes in the 3.84 version include ACELA trains and weekend service. |
| Hudson Bergen
Light Rail Requires BAHN 3.83 or later |
A series of layouts that document the
major expansions of this northern New Jersey system.. . . . . . . . hblr-history.txt
is a file describing the layouts.
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| BMT System Requires BAHN 3.84 This version uses version 3.84 of BAHN. Use the zip file below for BAHN 3.83 compatible layouts. Among other things, BAHN 3.84 allows more accurate multilevel track layouts. You can see it immediately at the load location Stillwell Ave for the el in Coney Island. Use CTL-Page Up or CTL-Page Down to see the levels. This will also work on BAHN 3.85 |
21 layouts in one zip file! - Updated 8/30/2008 The files for 1997 to 2005 have been corrected with the F train local in Brooklyn. (5/31/2004) The 2004 and 2005 files have a more accurate alignments for the Canarsie Line at Atlantic Ave (6/5/2004) Franklin shuttle corrected in 2001 - 2005 Layouts (6/6/2004) Stillwell Ave tracks 1 & 2 corrected for 2004 & 2005 layouts (6/11/2004) 1970 (first Chrystie St service) layout with NX (2 trains) added Some signal systems were corrected. Winter and summer operations at Stillwell Ave have been shown by splitting the 1950 layout into two files 1950w and 1950s (July 2008)
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| BMT
System Requires BAHN 3.83 |
15 layouts in one zip file! - The files for 1997 to 2005 have been corrected with the F train local in Brooklyn. (5/31/2004) The 2004 and 2005 files have a more accurate alignments for the Canarsie Line at Atlantic Ave (6/5/2004) Franklin shuttle corrected in 2001 - 2005 Layouts (6/6/2004) Stillwell Ave tracks 1 & 2 corrected for 2004 & 2005 layouts (6/11/2004) 1970 (first Chrystie St service) layout with NX (2 trains) added
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| Brooklyn Trackless Trolley | System included, St. Johns, Bergen St, Lorimer, Tompkins, Flushing, and Graham. Coaches operated between 1948 to 1960 |
| NY City
- Railroads Most older versions of this layout require BAHN 3.83. The main file runs on version 3.84. An new version repersenting 2008 service has been added. The latest will also work on BAHN 3.85 |
5/31/2009 - Cosmetic improvements at many
locations. Added MN Yankee Stadium station w/NH & Harlem trains stopping
there. 5/19/2009 - Changed the LIRR and MNCR trains to M-7 cars. 5/16/2009 - Added NJT Meadowlands Sports Station, Hoboken shuttle and, New Haven special. 4/29/2009 - Corrected track and stations on LIRR Oyster Bay Line and Ronkonkama Station. Changed the LIRRH train from Ronkonokama to Hicksville Shuttle to thru train Mon-Fri days and added two more consists. 3/20/2008 -Renamed a few more NJT routes to make them more obvious. Made the Raritan Valley trains wrongrail into track 5 Newark over night. Moved Grove Street and NCS extension to a more geographically correct place. Sent some NJT trains to Sunnyside yard in the mid day periods. 3/3/2008 - Extended the New Haven line east to New London. Converted the AMTRAK NEC trains to ACELA equipment. Weekday KEYSTONE service with original Metroliner cars and electric locomotives were added. Curves were added to some of the New Jersey Transit lines for more realism. Additional corrections were made in the Meadowlands area for NJT trains. The Montclair-Boonton line was converted to weekdays only. The Spring Valley line had weekend service added. Both of these reflect 2008 service. PATH night and weekend service was modified for the round robin 33-HOB-JS-HOB-33 servcie. Weekend single track, with a work train was added between Journal Square and Harrison. Many route names were changed to make more sense with the expanded services added to the layout. 5/26/ 2007 - Extended MNCR lines using a track diagram of the system. Added the NJT Casino train between NY and Atlantic City. Added trains in storage at various yards, Modified Penn Station, NY for turning AMTNH trains. 4/29/2007 - added detail to the Newark Airtrain, some Philadelphia commuter trains. Fixed a problem in the Meadowlands with the single track used by the Raritan and Bayhead trains. This also fixed the Bayhead trains to always enter Hoboken with the diesel on the west end. The text file now includes the codes used for the route names. 3/7/2006 - added Bayonne Flyer to HBLR and made changes to Hoboken terminal of HBLR 2/24/2006 - Added HBLR service to Tonnelle Ave. Deleted CNJ shuttles between Newark and NJC and Bayone and Cranford 11/16/2005 - Newark City Subway extension to Broad St Improved track layouts at a number of locations based on observations Extended NEC to Philadelphia & Atlantic City 9/19/2004 - HBLR extension to Lincoln and the Riverline A separate layout showing and alternative track operation for Hoboken on the HBLR 1/17/2004. JFK Airtrain added between the airport and Howard Beach and Jamaica. Now includes the Hudson-Bergen Light rail with the to Hoboken. The Newport Center service is in a separate layout in the zip file. 2001 - Memorial service operated between the 9-11 attack. No service to WTC is in a separate layout in the zip file. |
| IND Not Built Requires BAHN 3.81 |
New in 2007, the BAHN 3.84 version has more
realisatic graphics for the multi-level locations like Central Park West, west
4th Street and other locations. The 2004 version is included in the set that
uses the older 3.83 version of BAHN. The IND system today is only 2/3 what it was planned. This is a BAHN Layout that shows what might have been. Now with NYC Subway cars. With extensions as shown in the ERA New York Division Bulletins:
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| Included in BMT set | Myrtle, Fulton, Lexington, Fifth. Brooklyn's elevated legacy recreated in BAHN from diagrams published in 1975 by the Electric Railroader's Association. |
| Staten Island Trolley Lines 1918 Plus more | Long before the Geothals, Bayonne, & Verrazano Bridges and Outerbridge Crossing were built, trolley operated on many North Shore streets and as far south as Richmondtown. Also, there were Trackless Trolleys (the TT car house still stands in 1997) and of course the SIRT had three lines in operation. I tried to show it all one one BAHN layout. |
| Brooklyn Trolley Lines | The Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers, Peter Witts, PCC's, Coney Island, Canarsie, they're all here. Now three files All lines till about 1930, lines abandoned after 1945 and a text file with the description of both layouts. |
 IND History
setRequires BAHN 3.84 This will also work on BAHN 3.85 |
23 files tracing the construction and services on the
IND Division between 1932 and the present.
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| IRT
History for BAHN 3.84 Requires BAHN 3.84 This version uses version 3.84 of BAHN. Use the zip file below for BAHN 3.83 compatible layouts. Among other things, BAHN 3.84 allows more accurate multilevel track layouts. You can see it by navigating to Rodgers Junction in Brooklyn or the Lexington Line north of Grand Central. Use CTL-Page Up or CTL-Page Down to see the levels. This will also work on BAHN 3.85 |
Now 20 layouts tracing the history of the
construction of the IRT Division - Updated
8/30/2008
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| IRT
History for BAHN 3.83 |
Now 16 layouts tracing the history of the
construction of the IRT Division - these will not be updated
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| Metropolitan Street Railway | Manhattan, the Bronx, and Westchester streecars from
the 1946 ERA maps and Tracks of New York, Volume 1, Metropolitan Street
Railway - 1907 © 1971 Route letters and numbers are in the form of GIF files scanned from the above documents. |
| New Haven | New Haven, Ct based on the 1944 ERA track diagram. This is not a zip file, but a ready to run NT3 BAHN format. |
| NYCT 2005 | The complete NYCT subway service in 2005. The
original layout was built by Steve
Hoskins. It was modified by John C. Michno and Tyrone Banks. It uses some
support and car files designed by Robert Mammero. All of the files are in the
zip file. This layout was sent to me by Tyrone Banks |
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