Urban railfanning

A (perhaps incomplete) list of subway/metro/commuter rail/light rail/miscellaneous mass transit that I have ridden, across the US.

• Boston
  • heavy rail T: Red, Blue, Orange Lines
  • subway-surface: Green Line
  • BRT: Silver Line
• New York
  • commuter rail: Metro-North
  • commuter rail: Long Island Rail Road*
  • heavy rail¹: IRT, BMT, IND
    • Station snaps: Columbus Circle, 28th Street IRT, West 4th Street, 96th Street Second Avenue Line, Bowling Green IRT
    • Car 4178 on the A
  • heavy rail: Staten Island Railway
  • heavy rail: PATH
• Newark, N.J.
  • commuter rail: New Jersey Transit
  • heavy rail: PATCO
  • light rail: Hudson-Bergen Light Rail
  • light rail: Newark Light Rail
  • light rail: River Line
• Philadelphia
  • commuter rail: SEPTA
  • heavy rail: Market-Frankford, Broad Street*
  • subway-surface: T line
  • light rail: D line (102)
• Baltimore
  • commuter rail: MARC Penn
  • heavy rail: Metro SubwayLink²
  • light rail: Light RailLink²
• Washington, D.C.
  • heavy rail: WMATA Red, Blue, Orange, Green, Yellow, and Silver Lines
• Charlotte
  • light rail: Lynx Blue Line
• Cleveland
  • heavy rail: RTA Red Line
• Dayton, O.
  • trolley bus⁵
• Cincinnati
  • light rail: Connector**
• Chicago
  • commuter rail: Metra Union Pacific-North⁴
  • heavy rail³: El
• St. Louis
  • light rail: Red Line
• Sacramento
  • light rail: SacRT Gold Line
• San Francisco
  • heavy rail: BART***

*A long time ago (1970’s)
**Largely a tourism line
***A while ago (2000’s)
¹Doubtful that I’ve been on every line, but I have ridden the G.
²Or whatever they’re calling it these days.
³Several of the lines, some of them back when they had names instead of colors. But not the Skokie Swift.
⁴Way back when it was the Chicago & North Western.
⁵When I lived there, my line was the 5 through Oakwood. But later the town tore down the trolley lines.

Last updated: Monday, 23 February 2026 17:21