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BOSTON

• Elmer's MBTA Homepage
• MBTA Commuter Rail Home Page
• Gopher to MBTA directory
• Schedules
• Map
• Fares

CHICAGO

Here is a wonderful scan of the official map. Also, Metra has an official information center with maps, schedules, fares, etc.

CHICAGO -- SOUTH SHORE LINE

LOS ANGELES

METROLINK

• Union Station
• Metrolink Home Page by Elson Trinidad
• Southern California commuter rail map (covers both Los Angeles Metrolink and San Diego Coaster)

MIAMI

• Tri-Rail Commuter Rail System -- schedules, fares, station locations, contact information, whatever you like!

NEW JERSEY

NEW JERSEY TRANSIT (NJT)

• Schematic map of the lines (sorry, do not know who draw it!)
• NJ Transit Train Schedules and other information, including a
• New system map!

NEW YORK

NEW YORK -- LONG ISLAND RAILROAD

• Map in GIF
• Some basic information about LIRR
• The LIRR Library - Books about the Long Island Railroad
• Recently opened MTA official Home Page!
• A track map of the Port-Jefferson Station
• This may be a rare picture: LIRR double-decker train at Port Jefferson station headed to New York City. That was the only Port-Jefferson line train that was both diesel- and electric-powered and hence allowed to enter Penn Station. This service was introduced in the Fall, 1995 and discontinued in Winter, 1995/96.
• Some pictures of the Stony Brook station:
  • a view of the station
  • a New York-bound train approaches the station
  • a New York-bound train departs from the station
• A picture of Shirley-Mastic station (Montauk branch)
• Pictures of Smithtown and St. James stations (Port-Jefferson branch)
• LIRR has a number of museums dealing with the history of the railroad and of particular locations. Among them:
  • Wantagh Preservation Society
  • LIRR Museum in Riverhead and Greenport. The museum rolling stock resides at the Riverhead station, and I have some pictures of their vintage cars (class T-62 prototype double decker, 1932, and Baggage Mail BM-62, 1928). More pictures of LIRR double-decker cars here.
  • Locomotive 35 Restoration Society in Mitchell Field (besides the steam locomotive itself, which is in a very bad condition, they also have some old LIRR car).
• LIRR uses a great variety of boarding tickets. Here is the front side and the back side of one of them good for one ride from Port Jefferson to Stony Brook or back, valid for three months

NEW YORK -- METRO NORTH RAILROAD

• The Unofficial Metro-North Page
• Recently opened MTA official Home Page
• A picture of the Metro North's Beacon Station

PHILADELPHIA 

SEPTA stands for South-Eastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

• SEPTA on DVARP
• Core Rail Systems map, including commuter and urban SEPTA and PATCO routes
• An article from USENET about Newton Line

SAN DIEGO

• Southern California commuter rail map (covers both Los Angeles Metrolink and San Diego Coaster)
• Schedules

SAN FRANCISCO

Now, it is operated by the CalTrain Joint Powers Board (SamTrans). The system spreads over 77 miles. It has 77 passenger cars and 20 diesel electric engines, and carries about 22,000 passengers weekly.

Read here about the Caltrain Downtown San Francisco Extension Project.

• Schedules from Palo-Alto
• A PostScript route map by Stephen Stuart

WASHINGTON, DC 

• MARC Schedules
• Combined MARC and VRE system map
• One more MARC map
• VRE now has its own Home Page with a perfect system map

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