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San Diego’s Orange Line (and a homepage), the System is complete!

Jeremiah Cox — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:16:08 +0000

Well San Diego finally has a proper homepage!

I also might as well go through a make a formal update for the rest of its stations:

Santee Town Center-(29 photos)
Gillespie Field-(33 photos)
Arnele Avenue-(14 photos)
El Cajon Transit Center-(22 photos)
Amaya Drive-(16 photos)
Grossmont Transit Center-(9 photos)
La Mesa Blvd-(17 photos)

Historic La Mesa Depot-(17 photos)

Spring Street-(14 photos)
Lemon Grove Depot-(29 photos)
Massachusetts Avenue-(19 photos)
Encanto/62nd Street-(9 photos)
Euclid Avenue-(14 photos)
47th Street-(11 photos)
32nd & Commercial-(11 photos)
25th & Commercial-(26 photos)

Enjoy!

Upload: The Green Line through Mission Valley

Jeremiah Cox — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:03:25 +0000

To continue my posts on the new San Diego Trolley Section (a real homepage I am in the process of finishing), I present the Green Line through the Mission Valley:

70th Street-(14 photos)
Alvarado Medical Center-(29 photos)
SDSU Transit Center-(39 photos)
Grantville-(20 photos)
Mission San Diego-(25 photos)
Qualcomm Stadium-(28 photos)
Fenton Parkway-(18 photos)
Rio Vista-(12 photos)
Mission Valley Center-(17 photos)
Hazard Center-(18 photos)
Fashion Valley Transit Center-(6 photos)
Morena/Linda Vista-(8 photos)
Washington Street-(25 photos)
Middletown-(10 photos)
County Center/Little Italy-(11 photos)

Enjoy!

San Diego’s Trolley Loop Around Downtown

Jeremiah Cox — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:42:22 +0000

In this update I bring the San Diego Trolley’s Loop Around Downtown, It is presently used by the orange line and the historic silver line PCC (which wasn’t operating when I visited San Diego), soon Orange Line trains will no longer loop, terminate at the Santa Fe Depot and be replaced by the Green Line:

Gaslamp Quarter-(24 photos)
Convention Center-(11 photos)
Seaport Village-(21 photos)
America Plaza-(page rebuilt with 10 photos photos)
Civic Center-(page rebuilt with 13 photos)
Fifth Avenue-(page rebuilt with 12 photos)
City College-(8 photos)
Park & Market-(8 photos)
12th & Imperial Transit Center-(22 photos)

Trolley Yard-(12 photos)

Enjoy!

The San Diego Blue Line to the Boarder, the Trolley Line which Started it All

Jeremiah Cox — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 16:18:38 +0000

The San Diego Trolley Blue Line (originally called south line) is the trolley that began the light rail renaissance in the United States when it opened in 1981 on the extreme cheep using cars built in Germany (the U3s identical to ones running in Dusseldorf), platforms are non existent, you board from concrete directly in the street with slow on-board wheelchair ramps similar to a bus. It also directly serves the busiest International boarder crossing in the world, ending just steps from the bridge across I-5 to reach Mexico for pedestrians:

Barrio Logan(13 photos)
Harborside(8 photos)
Pacific Fleet(17 photos)
8th Street(12 photos)
24th Street(12 photos)
Bayfront/E Street(20 photos)
H Street(17 photos)
Palomar Street(26 photos)
Palm Avenue(13 photos)
Iris Avenue(22 photos)
Beyer Blvd-(13 photos)
San Ysidro/International Boarder-(12 photos)

Enjoy!

Upload: San Diego’s Stations: Old Town and Santa Fe Depot

Jeremiah Cox — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 02:55:12 +0000

Well I’ve been back in New York for 2 weeks and have barely taken the subway, I’m leaving again in another two weeks to take Amtrak out to RAGBRAI a bike ride that I’m doing for four days in Iowa. This means that all my free time has been spent on my bike and I’ve even had a couple days visiting friends on it I’ve barely ridden the subway.

On a bad note I am currently having issues with the hard drive that has all my pictures from my trip and a bit before that. I’m generally quite good about backing things up except when traveling. It stopped powering on a day after I got back home before I had a chance to run a back-up. I’m still trying to figure out whats wrong with it so I can’t access anything from Texas or the month before my trip.

Instead I present the beginnings of a new section I meant to finish before my Tennessee to Texas Trip, I wrote about half of it before I left. As I test the trolley station pages (and write the home pages) I thought I might as well start with the two heavy rail stations in San Diego, which means Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner is complete station page wise (although hopefully one day I have a reason to go to Surf and Guadeloupe, they both got out the door photo essays). Both have just one section for three transit systems the Coaster, Amtrak and San Diego Trolley because the trolley tracks are directly alongside the mainline railroad tracks:

Old Town-(60 photos)
Santa Fe Depot-(rebuilt with 46 photos)

Except the rest of San Diego Trolley (with every station) in the next few days!

The Two San Clemente Stations

Jeremiah Cox — Sat, 12 May 2012 07:00:10 +0000

Well I just realized I had never bothered to make a formal post that all Metrolink Stations in Orange County are now on the website. So today while I am first off to Grand Central to enjoy National Train Day, followed by a Yankee Game and then evening activity I’ll write a formal upload post for these two stations 1 mile apart that provide Sea Views from the actual platforms each with quite infrequent service:

San Clemente (North Beach)-(32 photos)
San Clemente Pier-(27 photos)

Enjoy!

Coaster Coasts in With its 6 North County Stations

Jeremiah Cox — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:22:16 +0000

Coaster is the Commuter Rail that connects Oceanside (transfers to Sprinter) to downtown San Diego hence its name, it is one of the few commuter rail lines that has had no infill stations built opening with the same 8 stations it stops at today in 1995. I have just begun writing the San Diego’s Trolley and two stations the Coaster and Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner shares with the trolly will have to wait. The systems are just to interconnected.
Here are the 6 Northernmost Stations:

Oceanside, Coaster/Metrolink/Amtrak Portion-(page rebuilt with 66 new photos)
- Sprinter Platform-(Page Rebuilt with 12 photos)
Carlsbad Village-(13 photos)
Carlsbad Poinsettia-(34 photos)
Encinitas-(31 photos)
Solana Beach-(36 photos)
Sorrento Valley-(40 photos)

Enjoy! (I promise this is the end of the bad puns)

The Sprinter has won with 15 Stations!

Jeremiah Cox — Thu, 10 May 2012 03:36:26 +0000

After finishing this odd little DMU Light Rail System in Northern San Diego County with that great name I just had to include a cheesy title for the post, here are those 15 winning (well most of them look exactly the same) stations. The line’s stops incorporate no artwork, have modular canopy structures, but have one unique feature. This is fenced off platforms with mechanical gab fillers that are raised for freight trains to go by and provide some of the most level boarding I’ve seen with the narrow European DMUs:

Coast Highway-(18 photos)
Crouch Street-(20 photos)
El Camino Real-(14 photos)
Rancho Del Oro-(page rebuilt with 30 photos)
College Blvd-(10 photos)
Melrose Drive-(17 photos)
Vista Transit Center-(20 photos)
Escondido Avenue/Vista-(28 photos)
Buena Creek-(17 photos)
Palomar College-(16 photos)
San Marcos Civic Center-(11 photos)
Cal State San Marcos-(40 photos)
Nordahl Road-(12 photos)
Escondido Transit Center-(29 photos)

3 More in Orange County Irvine to San Juan Capistrano

Jeremiah Cox — Sat, 05 May 2012 04:26:16 +0000

Well I was planning to finish Orange County today but am just too tired so here are the next three continuing south, all quite different heavily used stations:

Irvine-(78 photos)
Laguna Niguel/Mission Vieljo-(34 photos)
San Juan Capistrano-(44 photos)

Continuing down from Fullerton to Tustin

Jeremiah Cox — Fri, 04 May 2012 04:24:35 +0000

Well with today’s update I have continued south through Orange County with some quite large uploads as far as Tustin, all but 2 are also served by Amtrak.

Fullerton (62 photos)
Anaheim Canyon (23 photos)
Anaheim (66 photos)
Orange (77 photos)
Santa Ana (44 photos)
Tustin (60 photos), from two visits one in 2011 when the new parking garage and just begun construction and the other less than a year later in 2012 with the garage open

Enjoy!