I arose at the Jane Hotel and after checking out, took a taxi cab to Penn Station and stored my bags in the Club Acela closet then tried to finished yesterday's story and was set to upload it when my FTP Explorer would not work. I learned that Amtrak wi-fi had it blocked, which upset me since I write stories about Amtrak and train travel as well and that act cost me time. I then took PATH back over to Hoboken and after getting some breakfast, bought my roundtrip New Jersey Transit ticket to Spring Valley then took care of some other business before walking out to Track 7 to wait for the train.
New Jersey Transit cab car 6031 brought Train 1612 into Hoboken from Spring Valley.
New Jersey Transit 4110.
New Jersey Transit GP40PH-2 4110, nee Central of New Jersey 3673, built by Electro-Motive Division in 1968, was on the train to Suffen, New York.
New Jersey Transit GP40PH-2B 4211, ex. Conrail 3192, nee Penn Central 3192, built by Electro-Motive Division in 1968, was on the point of a train to Dover.
New Jersey Transit 1605 to Spring Valley 6/18/2010
Our train to Spring Valley had New Jersey Transit PL42-AC 4031 built by Alstom on it. I boarded coach 5445 for my trip to Spring Valley.
The train departed Hoboken on time.
New Jersey Transit trains being serviced at Hoboken. The train headed into the Bergen Tunnel built by the Lackawanna Railroad in 1908 then made its stop at Secaucus Junction where many passengers transferred off our train to other New Jersey Transit line trains and onto this train.
The Hackensack River was off to the west.
We crossed the Hackensack River then at CP Pascack, I started my new rail mileage to Spring Valley.
The Meadowlands Sport Complex, where the New York Jets and New York Giants plays their football games.
The skyline of New York City across the landscape.
At CP Sport, the new connections to the Meadowlands Sport Complex station. Our train stopped at Wood-Ridge, Teterboro, Essex Street, Anderson Street and New Bridge Landing and from there, we ran express skipping River Edge, Oradell, Emerson, Westwoods, Hillsdale, Woodcliff Lake, Park Ridge and Montvale. Once we were in New York, we made the Metro-North stops of Pearl River and Nanuet before we reached Spring Valley, where I detrained.
Because of a grade crossing, the trains all return to the storage yard and there goes mine.
New Jersey Transit Train 1607 arrived from Hoboken and a few minutes later, I heard a horn and knew my train was on the way back to Hoboken.
New Jery Tansit Train 1622 arrived, picked me and the other passengers up and we made our way back to Hoboken, making all the stops.
Metro-North 4903 at Hoboken before I detrained. I walked straight to a waiting PATH train which took me back to 33rd Street and a long block walk returned me to Penn Station where I stopped at KFC for lunch before going back to Club Acela and writing this part of the story.
Northeast Regional Train 85 to Wilmington 6/18/2010I boarded the last car, found a nice Amfleet full window seat for my trip to Wilmington and turned on the computer to listen to my CD of Alice Cooper "Dragontown" to pass the time. The train went through the Hudson River Tunnel then sprinted across the open lands of New Jersey to Newark before running at a reduced rate of speed to our next stop of Metropark. Finally a late Acela Express heading to Washington, DC flew by us before we reached there and after that, it was the fast running that the Northeast Corridor is known for as we flew to Trenton.
Amtrak HHP-8 653, built by Bombardier/Alstom Consortium, on a northbound train at Trenton. After that, it was on to Philadelphia and then Wilmington, where I detrained after a very nice trip on Train 85 this afternoon.
Now back to Philadelphia 6/18/2010I knew the Wilmington station was undergoing a remodel but lucked out finding the Hertz rental car counter and received a Toyota Corolla then finally found Interstate 95. I would take Los Angeles freeways any day over the drivers here. I followed my Mapquest directions and after battling traffic for ten miles, it finally opened up and I reached the former Motel 6, now a Skyview Plaza Hotel, but they honored my Motel 6 rate. I tried to get online but with no luck.
The view from my hotel room. I then drove to Citizens Bank Park.
Wachovia Spectrum, the arena in which the Philadelphia Flyers play hockey and the Philadelphia 76er's play basketball.
Lincoln Fianancial Field, the stadium in whichthe Philadelphia Eagles play football.
Citizens Bank Park, home of the Philadelphia Phillies. All can be reached by SEPTA service from downtown.
A history of Philadelphia Music was performed before the game and was very good.
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Views around the Citizens Bank Ballpark, which opened for the 2004 season.
The Phillie Phantic.
The first pitch against the visiting Minnesota Twins.
The view of downtown Philadelphia from the ballpark. All those long nights in New York caught up with me, so after the Phillies were leading 3-0 in the first, I returned to my hotel to get a good night's sleep and I found out the next day that the Phillies beat the Twins 9-3.
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