"Change at Jamaica"
The phrase "Change at Jamaica" is anathema to many commuters on the Long Island Railroad. While the majority probably don't have to change trains to reach their destination, either eastbound or west, those who do - mainly those heading to Brooklyn, or those wanting to go to Manhattan but whose trains don't usually head there - dread the task. The greatest threat to a smooth commute, if you must change trains, is the possibility of falling asleep and missing the connection. I've been there and done that, but mainly back when I had to commute on the Hempstead branch. The only train line unaffected by the possibility of having to change trains at Jamaica are those lucky individuals who are served by the Port Washington branch: Those trains don't even pass through Jamaica. For the rest of us, if not on a daily basis, at least once in a while it's a necessity - especially during a snowstorm, such as the one we had Sunday afternoon into Monday. By 9 pm Sunday night, or thereabouts, nobody had to worry about changing trains - there were no trains running: The LIRR had suspended service system-wide.
These passengers of the Long Island Railroad were standing on the platform in Jamaica, Queens during Sunday afternoon's blizzard, awaiting a connection to Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn.
This view, from an ice-blurred window inside the 2:17 train from Seaford, merges the architecture of the recently re-modeled Jamaica station with a reflection of the interior of the car where I was seated. The blurred arriving train aligns radially with the overhead girders and the reflected fluorescent light fixtures.
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Dec 26, 2010, 2:53:31 PM
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Canon EOS 5D
1/2 second
F/4.0
24 mm
50
Dec 26, 2010, 2:53:31 PM
Adobe Photoshop CS Windows
66mm
