FrontRunner South, Provo Amtrak and all my Utah Photos from my February trip

I realize that the update everyone is excepting is of Metro-North at Grand Central Terminal. It isn’t next, I need a break from the intensity of the complex New York City Rail Terminals. These past few hot, humid days in New York with the start of summer put me in the mood to process photos [...]

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The newest TRAX Stations! (Now complete!)

The new FrontLine Red and Green Line extensions that opened in 2011 are transit lines of contrast. One, the Green Line, serves 4 stations along already existing, mostly developed corridors. The other, the Red Line, serves mainly vacant land poised for new (and some transit oriented) development with just a few existing town centers along [...]

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Additions to Pre-2011 TRAX Stations

On my visit to Salt Lake City two months ago I did visit all 13 of the new TRAX stations that opened as part of FrontLines in 2011. I also touched up on some of the older stations. I also decided I would keep the old format for the next stop buttons for the entire [...]

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Upload: FrontRunner Roy and Ogden (Union Station)

Well I finally got the few mainline additions from Utah finished. First we have four on FrontRunner: Salt Lake Central-(14 photos added) Clearfield-(30 photos and a description added) Roy-(58 photos) Ogden Intermodal Center-(44 photos) And the railroad History in Ogden Ogden Union Station-(32 photos) The Utah Railroad Museum inside and around Ogden Union Station-(73 photos) [...]

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Upload: The Historic Railroad Stations of Salt Lake City

Well with the holiday weekend giving me less time to work on the site I only have had a chance to write about the tale of three Amtrak Stations over the course of its history with the current one by far the worse. All three are still in existance and there waiting rooms open to [...]

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Update: The Rockies Gets a homepage and Phoenix is here! (three weeks ago)

Well I appoligize for the lack of updates lately, my computer has been broken for about two weeks. I was installing the Mac audoupdate and it made my computer go caput. It took me a week and a half to finally find three hours (a week ago Wednesday) on a weekday (Colorado Springs does have [...]

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Missed $1 Crucero USA bus, and an early Sunset Limited Through the Night

Greetings from Los Angeles! I apologize for not getting more posts in this entire trip. I was staying in the most social hostels I have ever stayed in, in both Phoenix and San Diego and every time I got my computer out in an attempt to right a blog post I would get distracted in [...]

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Amtrak to Phoenix-the Flying Southwest Chief and a Van Thruway Connection

Greetings from the Fair Trade Café just north of Downtown Phoenix! After the last blog post, my Rail Runner Train arrived at the amazing Belen station parallel to the main, high-speed BNSF transcontinental multi-modal rail line, although rail runner’s single stub track ends and there is fence so trespassers can’t wonder over to the area [...]

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Greetings from the New Mexico Rail Runner!

5:30am Yes I’m currently in Albuquerque (well now a bit north of it), riding the Rail Runner Express (which has wi-fi onboard) got in just about a half hour ago on the night Autobuses Americanos from Colorado Springs and got on the train straight and by the time I take the California Zephyr this afternoon [...]

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Upload: The Central Corridor of Denver’s Light Rail

Well one of my goals in the next few months before I probably leave Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West is to get off of the limited rail based transit in the region up on the web. Most of Denver I’ve photographed over my almost four years here, although next week it is where I’ll [...]

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