NJ-NY trains

My folks live about an hour from NYC by train. Hazlet to Penn Station in NYC via the NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast line stretches from the beaches up through the raritan bay to the meadowlands of north jersey before disappearing below the river and depositing you in the bowls of Penn Station.

The sweeping cattail swamps of the meadowlands are both the indigenous landscape and the default decay of the crumbling factories located along the tracks. Stand still long enough and the cattails will get you too.

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While stopped waiting for the tracks to clear in secacus station.

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As you get north of the raritan river, you can start to see the NYC skyline peeking over the cattails, swamps and industrial detritus of North Jersey:

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Of course your day of trains has only just begun, from Penn Station you can get whisked anywhere the subway can take you. Here Prince St Station:

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Happy New year all. A few more back log posts to come and then reports from xc skiing and the new year.