Found Safe NJ - Thomas Kolding, 15, Mountain Lakes, 30 Oct 2018

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How do you get from Penn NYC to Camden? Take a NJ Transit train from NYC to Trenton then SEPTA train? Camden does not give him any alternatives to go beyond the area and is very sketchy.

I am not familiar with the railways around Philly only NY.

When I commuted on NJ Transit or the PATH I always saw HS or college kids with backpacks either going/coming from school or going into the City. He’d just blend in to me if I saw him.
 
Curiousobserver said:
-yeah, a same day one way ticket paid in cash by a 15yr old kid...
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He might not have paid cash on the train, if he did he would have paid a couple dollars more and could have been noticed by the conductor who barely looks at you when taking tickets. I think everyone in the car would have overheard a conversation between the two. Kiosks are all over the platforms to purchase tickets by cash or credit card. I am sure he did that.
 
DizzyB said:
Amtrak security is much tighter than the subway system & NJ Transit. I'm surprised that a conductor didn't notice him.
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Definitely true this..Conductors on NJT face-to-face ask for your ticket. Though he may have been traveling before he was reported missing.

Also, sometimes during rush hour, NJT trains can get pretty crowded. In fact, I've been on trains that are so crowded that the conductor can't even get down the aisle. I had a free ride that way once...or twice.. Once was New Year's Eve and it was actually done purposely as a token to those of us on the train. If he went all the way to Trenton though, the crowd would thin out by then.
 
He was traveling before he was reported missing. He had 3 days at least. He disappeared a week ago and the picture in Camden was taken Saturday and just released today. He has $1,000 cash on him. Camden is not good. Where could he have gone from there, here it is Wednesday already.
 
It seems that Thomas has been riding mass transit on the east coast for a week now. It seems that he doesn't have a destination or objective in mind. Did he runaway from home to prove something to himself or to his parents. This runaway situation might be some type of test or punishment by his parents for poor grades. The story of him having $1k from investing lawn mowing money could be plausible but sounds fishy to me. The main thing is for Thomas to come home safely.
 
JerseyGirl said:
How do you get from Penn NYC to Camden? Take a NJ Transit train from NYC to Trenton then SEPTA train? Camden does not give him any alternatives to go beyond the area and is very sketchy.

I am not familiar with the railways around Philly only NY.

When I commuted on NJ Transit or the PATH I always saw HS or college kids with backpacks either going/coming from school or going into the City. He’d just blend in to me if I saw him.
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It's easy actually. NJ Transit to Trenton. Switch to NJ Transit Light Rail/Riverline which does go to the Rand Transportation Center in Camden. One of last stops.

Or he could have taken Amtrak to 30th Street Station in Philly and gotten to PATCO line into NJ and again same station in Camden.

ETA And from Camden there are several options. PATCO west into Philly. Or PATCO east farther into NJ. Last stop Lindenwold, NJ
 
JerseyGirl said:
He was traveling before he was reported missing. He had 3 days at least. He disappeared a week ago and the picture in Camden was taken Saturday and just released today. He has $1,000 cash on him. Camden is not good. Where could he have gone from there, here it is Wednesday already.
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From Camden, he could have gone by train into Philly. There is a bus station there on Filbert Street. Or he could have gone to 30th Street Station where Amtrak and Septa have hubs. Also possible Septa connections in Center City. Also he could go farther east into NJ from Camden to Haddonfield, Collingswood, Lindenwold to name a few stops on PATCO LINE.

ETA It's called a transportation center because several lines come and go there, but also because it services buses. SO he wouldn't even need to go into Philly to catch a bus.
 
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"I haven't overheard much among the clientele, but it comes up," she said. "We kind of check it every day and see if they found him, or if there is any new information. I don't have his social media, but apparently there was word going around that he was grounded before all this stuff happened."

The FBI also has been contacted about the case.

Missing 15-year-old Thomas Kolding shakes quiet Mountain Lakes, NJ
 
siliconrod said:
It seems that Thomas has been riding mass transit on the east coast for a week now. It seems that he doesn't have a destination or objective in mind. Did he runaway from home to prove something to himself or to his parents. This runaway situation might be some type of test or punishment by his parents for poor grades. The story of him having $1k from investing lawn mowing money could be plausible but sounds fishy to me. The main thing is for Thomas to come home safely.
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Honestly the investing thing is weird to me too. I obviously have no idea what his parents mean by “invest” or what he “invested” in, but IME, investments aren’t typically accessible in cash and sitting in your house. I think appearances have a lot to do with the way things are being relayed to the media.
 
Really? said:
Or from philly....a greyhound to Cali.....that’s how I went.
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He could have easily done that from NYC. Also, why didn’t he take the train to Philly from NYC (If Philly was his destination). Why would he backtrack to Camden? Finding him in Camden makes no sense to me when he was already in NYC with far more transportation options and a good 3 days of leaving the area before the public became aware he was missing.
 
JerseyGirl said:
He could have easily done that from NYC. Also, why didn’t he take the train to Philly from NYC (If Philly was his destination). Why would he backtrack to Camden? Finding him in Camden makes no sense to me when he was already in NYC with far more transportation options and a good 3 days of leaving the area before the public became aware he was missing.
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The train in the picture behind him in Camden is of the River Line. That line is above ground in Camden. If he were headed to PATCO, which is at the same station, he would need to head underground. It makes more sense to me that at this point he wasn't headed into Philly since, you are correct, he could have taken Septa from Trenton to 30th Street Station, Philadelphia instead of routing through Camden. Maybe he doesn't really have a destination and is just being a (forgive this) brat about teaching his parents some kind of lesson. Or, on the other hand, if he is headed to some place specific, he's doing so in a roundabout way to throw people off. I don't know...If his parents know he's safe then he must be communicating with them somehow anyway.
 
JerseyGirl said:
He could have easily done that from NYC. Also, why didn’t he take the train to Philly from NYC (If Philly was his destination). Why would he backtrack to Camden? Finding him in Camden makes no sense to me when he was already in NYC with far more transportation options and a good 3 days of leaving the area before the public became aware he was missing.
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I am guessing it is because he couldn't get on an Amtrak train. All people 15+ need an id to ride. The only other way is through jersey like what I assume he did. NJ transit to trenton, riverline to camden, patco into philly - no ID required.
 
JerseyGirl said:
He could have easily done that from NYC. Also, why didn’t he take the train to Philly from NYC (If Philly was his destination). Why would he backtrack to Camden? Finding him in Camden makes no sense to me when he was already in NYC with far more transportation options and a good 3 days of leaving the area before the public became aware he was missing.
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Maybe he isn’t as travel savvy as his parents have made him out to be. Which would be understandable considering he’s only a teenager. Just because he boarded a plane and flew on his own once doesn’t mean he is familiar with traveling alone domestically.
 
hobokenrun said:
I am guessing it is because he couldn't get on an Amtrak train. All people 15+ need an id to ride. The only other way is through jersey like what I assume he did. NJ transit to trenton, riverline to camden, patco into philly - no ID required.
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He could have done NJ Transit to Trenton and SEPTA to Philly from Trenton as well though. No ID needed then either. That is, if his destination was Philly.
 
I won't be surprised if this ends up having some kind of online link to it. Like maybe he meet someone online to either "date" Or that promised to get him to California like he wanted to. I just hope it wasn't someone with bad motivation that he meet and hope he's safe and well be returned home. All my humble opinion. ❤❤
 
bears10 said:
Maybe he isn’t as travel savvy as his parents have made him out to be. Which would be understandable considering he’s only a teenager. Just because he boarded a plane and flew on his own once doesn’t mean he is familiar with traveling alone domestically.
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I think he has to be fairly savvy to travel from home to Denville to Newark to Penn Station to Trenton to Camden. Lots of train changes and can be a little intimidating if not familiar with it in some way. Plus he lives in a town that has a train station which could easily get him to Secaucus NJ and them to Penn Station, or to Hoboken NJ and then to lower Manhattan. He seems to have chosen these roundabout and south-north-south routes for a reason. jmo
 
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