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Just back from a quick trip to Trenton to visit the capitol there. Took Amtrak to NYC and NJ Transit to Trenton, as it is much cheaper (and I had to change trains at Penn Station anyway). My NJ Transit down was local; back was an express. Neither train was an comfortable as Amtrak but it was OK. Trenton train station is being worked on and seems scuzzy anyways; didn't see signs of nice old building but maybe I missed something? The area around the capitol was quite nice, with other things to see, inc the Barracks. Did not have time to visit monument to Battle of Trenton; would have liked to.
Coming back N-bound on the Empire Service Amtrak out of NYC, it seemed we were in the Manhattan tunnels (or semi-tunnels) much longer than usual and only came out quite close to the George Washington Bridge. Is that some kind of alternate route, or is it just my memory going???
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Going back as far as I can remember (to the mid 70's), Trenton's train station has been the same dumpy building as stands there today. I used to frequent it every weekend when shuttling between parents as a child of divorce, back and forth between Port Jeff on the LIRR and Trenton on the PC/Conrail/NJT(I think that was the progression...I was but a lad) The bonus from all the train travel was getting to know the NJT engineers well enough that one of them let me run the train from Newark to NYP one time at the tender age of 10. What a thrill...
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