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Posted 01 January 2008 - 12:58 AM

With the advent of the New Year comes realization that our winter Rail Fest in New York is almost here. Just 17 days to go until Big Apple RailFest 2008, more affectionately known as BARF.

If you haven't made plans to join one of our Fests, it's never too late to get your name on the guest list. Just E-MAIL me that you are coming, and I'll gladly add your name to the list. (That includes everyone, even if you live in the area.) Our fests are always worth the trip from anywhere. In fact, people often take intercity trains or even fly into the place where we are holding the fest, just to ride trains! It's always good comeraderie as we talk trains and ride them too!

This year we are doing some hard-to-get subways on Friday evening, ones that are either impossible to ride or are frequently diverted or shortened for weekend construction. On Saturday, it's more subways to stations and endpoints our group has not yet visited. Then on Sunday, we ride NJ TRANSIT, first out to Gladstone, and then up to Spring Valley, NY. It should be a fun-filled slate of activities at our annual New York gath meet.

As you know, every Friday I blitz this board with alerts from New York City Transit as they announce service changes that will affect the subways for the next two weeks. So on January 4th and January 11th we wil pay close attention to the alerts so that last minute adjustments can be made if needed.

Hope to see you all in New York City & New Jersey on the 18th, 19th, and 20th of this month! :D


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Posted 02 January 2008 - 11:25 PM

Looks at Friday's schedule, I'll be driving up to North Jersey from home as soon as Michael gets home from school. We should make it there with plenty of time to spare, but in the outside chance we are delayed by weather or traffic, the group can always ride the subways a little later than planned. My intention as of now is to drive to somewhere in North Jersey, and ride PATH to Herald Square.

Tantatively, let's plan to meet on Friday at the Manhattan Mall (lower level food court) at about 5:00 PM and have dinner first. Once everybody is done we can be on our way, catching the F train there.

Saturday's meeting place will be just outside the LIRR waiting room at the location where we've met before near the bottom of the escalators. From there it's a short walk to the 2 train. Start assembling around 10:15 AM, and by 10:25 we will begin moving towards the subway station.

Sunday morning the meeting location will be outside of the McDonald's at Newark Penn Station. That will be very convenient for those staying at the Hilton, and it will allow us to head right down into the Newark Light Rail station. Meet at about 8:40 AM, and we head for the platform at 8:50 or so.


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