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In February, when Beyoncé introduced that she would embark on a world tour for her “Renaissance” album, New Yorkers started furiously plotting their journeys to MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.

They debated the deserves of Ubers and celebration buses. They organized automotive swimming pools and chartered vans. However many selected a extra accessible mode of journey to see Queen Bey: New Jersey Transit.

We knew followers would gown for the event. So we pitched an concept to Louis Lucero II, a Kinds editor and a self-described Beyoncé superfan: to doc the so-called BeyHive, as its members, of their glamorous and sometimes bedazzled outfits, waited on platforms and traveled on crowded trains to the present.

On a sizzling and sticky Saturday final month, we met by the Dunkin’ in Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan for the primary of Beyoncé’s two reveals at MetLife that weekend. After we arrived on the station round 4 p.m., every thing appeared regular: Vacationers pushed, shoved and scowled their manner via the station, suitcases trailing behind them.

However as we approached the New Jersey Transit ready space, indicators of the BeyHive started to emerge. Outdoors a newsstand, a lady wore a soccer jersey with the title of Beyoncé’s track “Thique” embroidered on the again. The density of sequins contained in the station was rising.

A spot beneath the departures board — the place vacationers usually wait for his or her prepare platform to be introduced — proved significantly good for people-watching. There we appeared for anybody sporting a cowboy hat; Beyoncé wore a shiny model in promotional pictures for her album, and we guessed followers would do the identical.

From afar, we noticed quite a lot of cowboy hats and adopted them to Observe 14, the place we struck up conversations with a number of vibrantly dressed concertgoers. Many of the followers had been excited to inform us about what Beyoncé’s music meant to them, or concerning the effort and time that went into every of their appears.

Imani Tudor, 28, a photograph editor from Brooklyn, stated she dyed her eyebrows crimson that morning. Seeing that others had additionally put collectively futuristic, avant-garde appears that had been impressed by Beyoncé’s most up-to-date album crammed Ms. Tudor with pleasure. “I’ve been listening to this in my room alone for the previous 12 months,” she stated.

After we arrived at MetLife Stadium about half-hour later, Ms. Tudor and different members of the ecstatic crowd spilled out of the automotive. We headed again to town on an empty prepare — after which hopped on one other crowded prepare headed again to New Jersey.

Throughout every journey, Amir pointed his digicam via the home windows of prepare automobiles, throughout platforms and up escalators in the hunt for fascinating individuals and contrasts, like a household with large suitcases being swept up in a throng of Beyoncé followers. The vestibule on the finish of every automotive proved a very compelling backdrop for photos; the reflective silver floor matched many passengers’ shiny equipment.

We had been additionally keen to talk with individuals who weren’t going to the present, like Jair Fonseca, who simply occurred to be sporting a cowboy hat that day. Like many different unintentional passengers on the Beyoncé Categorical, Mr. Fonseca, 38, who owns a Peruvian restaurant, expressed a mixture of bewilderment and awe at his environment.

We rode to and from New Jersey six occasions that Saturday, taking a quick break for doughnuts after journey No. 5. At one level within the day, a station attendant took pity on us and began swiping us via the turnstile at no cost (he had thought we had been hopelessly misplaced; we defined that we had been journalists). As Beyoncé took the stage at MetLife that night, we took the F prepare again to our respective flats to begin sorting via notes and pictures.

The following day, Amir photographed extra fashionable concertgoers en path to Beyoncé’s second present. We despatched one another texts all through the day: The place did we meet the couple who had stopped for Häagen-Dazs, though they had been working late? Did we get an image of the girl with a “Yoncé” lip tattoo?

Our hope was that such particulars would talk the dedication and aptitude that had been on show in essentially the most mundane of settings. It’s one factor to write down that the BeyHive is a passionate neighborhood; it’s one other to publish a picture of a lady with a unique picture of Beyoncé imprinted on every of her fingernails.

When the article was printed on-line, we each felt that the entire journeys had been price it — even when it concerned a very inefficient solution to get to MetLife Stadium. However perhaps subsequent time we’ll Uber.