Quick Note: No More Track Maps
I regret to say that I’ve taken down the track maps by Rich E Green that I’d hosted, in accordance with requests by him and by his employer, to whom he sold the maps. This involves breaking past links; I will put notices in past posts of mine that link to them, including a brief description to what is seen in the maps when necessary, and I encourage others to do the same.
Pedestrian Observations 
While looking at back pages to see where I need to make edits, I discovered some of my links don’t work because of how WordPress interprets URLs that do not include http. Those are being fixed as well. Since WordPress has a habit of sending trackbacks it missed when a post is edited, you may see new trackbacks coming from old posts, including auto-trackbacks.
A shame, they were purty maps. I have little understanding of transportation issues but I do appreciate a good minimalist map. Perhaps they’ve ended up on Tumblr.
I doubt they did. But if you want nice rail maps, here’s the regional rail map of a city region with way more useful rail service than New York does.
Alon, sorry to hear that. I have to wonder though… has anyone else made track maps like him, and covering the same areas?
By the way, you missed the LIRR and NJ Transit track maps here:
https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/new-york-area-track-maps/
And for anyone that forgot to download the maps beforehand, using the Wayback machine I found they last crawled his site in September 2010, so you still have a chance to get them there.
I didn’t miss the maps – the links are dead. I’m just systematically going back through the posts, and I haven’t gotten that far back. I will, soon.
Update: I forgot – the Wayback machine doesn’t work, or at least didn’t when I tried. It shows the front page, but doesn’t archive PDF files. That’s why I uploaded them to this blog – otherwise I’d have directly linked to the archived versions.
Personal note: it’s a pity that the maps weren’t made public under creative commons or similar license. That way, you wouldn’t have to pull the maps even after somebody acquires them.
This falls in the “copyright is bullshit” department. The maps will never make his employer any money, but they will now be suppressed, and someone will have to redo them. 😛
Well, glad to see he got a little cash from his employer for them.