Ranya's Ramblings

A plaque near the front door Eltingville Transit Center is a bus station in Staten Island, for service on MTA buses throughout the island. The bus station is located in the aforementioned Eltingville neighborhood of Staten Island. This station is a park-and-ride station, One of five total in New York City.  Tour The transit center itself Eltingville Transit center is surrounded by a fortress of hard-to-cross roads. There are very few good things about this station's location. In fact, the only one I can think of is that this station is near a diner with dolphins. Seriously, that's it. Dolphins Unfortunately, this is not at the station itself. Bus Lot In the front of the building, there's a lot, for buses to wait, and some bus berths. Despite these bus berths being labeled with what bus routes go to them, the buses will sometimes stop at random locations, so please be warned of this.  There's a building in the m

Sign on the side of the shelter North Philadelphia Main is a station serving both as an Amtrak train station on Amtrak's Keystone Service and as a SEPTA train station on the Trenton Line. This station is the most built out and most used station in the North Philadelphia Station Complex aside from North Philadelphia BSL station. The station is located on a large lot between Broad Street and 16th, just south of Indiana Avenue. Until 2022, this station held the award for being the least-used Amtrak station in Pennsylvania, though now that award goes to Cornwell Heights. This is unsurprising considering the sheer amount of decay and neglect this station has faced over the last few decades. I'll show you what I mean about that in a moment, but first, a very depressing history lesson. Services Southbound platform view This station has two services that stop here:  Amtrak: Five Keystone Service trains stop here, Four southbound and one northbound. This service

North Broad is a train station on SEPTA's main line. Particularly, it serves the Manayunk - Norristown, and Lansdale - Doylestown lines.  North Broad possibly is also one of the saddest stations I have ever seen.  History Corner of the old station house The station used to be a much grander station on the Reading Railroad. Originally called Huntingdon st station, this station was rebuilt immediately before the Great Depression when passenger amounts heavily dwindled. Then, other things like World War Two and the rise of cars, the subway, and suburbia further dwindled the use of this station. Sometime around the 1960s to 1970s, the original station building was shut down and sold, and the two shelters you see today were built.  Station Tour Station gate The station starts at a gate on Broad Street. Enter the gate, and you immediately are greeted with a long ramp and the SEPTA map.  The map Part of the walkway The walkway is