New York, New York / Newark, New Jersey:
Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH)

Pictures

[picture] A train arrives on the upper-level track at Newark Penn Station. The platform is completely deserted, but not for long... [March 1999]

[picture] A few seconds later, the train has stopped, the doors have opened, and passengers are flooding across the platform to the ramp which leads down to connecting trains and the station concourse. [March 1999]

[picture] An eastbound train descends from the upper level of the Passaic River bridge and approaches the Harrison station. [March 1999]

[picture] A westbound train stops at Harrison, as seen from the eastbound platform. The center tracks carry New Jersey Transit commuter trains and Amtrak long-distance trains, neither of which stop here. [March 1999]

[picture] Passengers prepare to board an arriving westbound train at Harrison. [March 1999]

[picture] A westbound train travels through an open cut and underneath Tonnelle Avenue, just west of the Journal Square station in Jersey City. [March 1999]

[picture] Hoboken is a stub-end station, so through trains have to reverse direction here. Here is the end of one of the station tracks next to the fare gates, as seen from the entrance to the station. [July 2001]

[picture] The Christopher Street station in Manhattan has a narrow island platform squeezed between the parallel tubes that carry the trains. After the destruction of the World Trade Center, this station became so busy that the Port Authority had to make it an exit-only station during the morning rush hour, in order to get commuters off the trains and out the single exit (immediately behind the camera location). [July 2001]

[picture] Standing at the edge of the platform at Christopher Street, we get a good view looking down the inbound tube. [July 2001]

[picture] Pavonia/Newport was for many years the least-used station, after the Erie Railroad terminal on the surface closed. Now it gets more traffic because the land formerly occupied by the railroad has been redeveloped into office space and a large shopping center. Note the E carved into the capitals of the columns, but not highlighted by the paint scheme as is the H at Hoboken; the station was originally named Erie. [July 2001]