BitwiseShift: Great.  So now for much less money, when New York City is just to dull and uninteresting, you can take in the epic night life of Philly, or even better, Baltimore.

Actually, travel between Philly and NYC isn't a problem, your can take local trains if you know the Trenton Shuffle.  But, getting from Philly to DC run out of train track somewhere in Delaware or Maryland.  Driving is more of a pain too.

dbirchall: BitwiseShift: Actually, travel between Philly and NYC isn't a problem, your can take local trains if you know the Trenton Shuffle.  But, getting from Philly to DC run out of train track somewhere in Delaware or Maryland.

Yeah, thereʻs about a 21-mile gap from where SEPTA dumps you in Newark, Delaware down to Perryville, Maryland where you can get a MARC train.  I donʻt think Amtrak even stops at Perryville, but Newark (DE) to Aberdeen, just south of Perryville, is only about $8.  Or you can take the Newark Connection bus to Elkton and the Cross Country bus to Perryville... still faster than walking.  (Slower than bicycling, though.)

From Grand Central in NYC, Metro-North will get you to New Haven, and CTrail can get you east to New London or north to Springfield, MA.  But the politicians in MA are still dithering about whether to extend MBTA regional rail service from Worcester to Springfield, so for now thatʻs another 48-mile gap, bah.  And from New London to Providence, RI (where you can also pick up MBTA to Boston) is a 55-mile gap.

/likes trains
//maybe a bit too much