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Remember, as long as they were here they never lost the smell of stale tobacco smoke. The Alchemist was a smoker until he saw the light and couldn't stand the stink of those cars!

Also, eastbound from Penn, it's still just (roughly) hourly service.

We're on the Port Wash -- no Jamaica for us.

Yesterday, the Alchemist and Mrs. A. took our first trip into Manhattan since GCM opened. Probably someday we'll want to go to the east side and we'll be glad for GCM, but for now it's basically cut our service to Penn in half. To make matters worse, the waiting room (sucky as it used to be!) is now...

With all the attention given to the East Side and Third Track projects, it's easy to overlook some smaller thing going on. Here's a line from an email I just got: Starting today and continuing thru Fri. 11/18, the 5:29pm train from Penn Station to Great Neck is canceled to support work on the new Gr...

WOR radio helicopter traffic reporter ("Fearless" Fred Feldman) used to report on "silver snail" sightings, esp. when he saw dead trains somewhere.

We just have to find funding to move it to the same museum keeping the old steam loco found in an abandoned subway tunnel in Brooklyn.

Beware the bogieman!

Wasn't the MR layout in the basement of the Broadway station? Not that I ever saw it.

No problem for me either -Firefox 93.0 64 bit, Win 10.

Just read this on the Patch Newsletter: Council Member I. Daneek Miller October 16 at 8:18 AM · CROSS ISLAND PARKWAY WILL BE CLOSED OCTOBER 23, 24 TO ADVANCE ELMONT STATION WORK In order to install steel girders over the Cross Island Parkway that will support platforms for the future Elmont station,...

Seems we're a long way from normal. Was in Manhattan yesterday (Monday) and caught the 5:29 Great Neck train home - first time since I retired. That train used to be a zoo, especially with the US Open on. Rode one of the cars near the east end and it was more like maybe Sunday morning! Plenty of emp...

Believe S/D is Senior/Disabled.

Don't know when it started or ended or if it's still done but in the 1960's each destroyer in the Atlantic had what was called a "p**s on you" flag that was flown when alongside for replenishment. O'Hare's was green (of course) and featured an embarrassed-looking tiger who had obviously be...

Northeast corner of Franklin Ave. and 11th Street. That's soon-to-be Winthrop Hospital facility, formerly Sears and originally Bloomingdales. How times do change!