Greetings from Portland, Oregon where I await the departure of the Empire Builder en-route to Minnesota. My time here as been quite busy, but not all that social. This is because of just trying to get Tri-Met Max done which is quite large but the main issue is the 15 minute headways on its branches […]
Year: 2011
This Post I finally got around to posting on Wednesday October 19th from my iPhone as I rode the Empire Builder. I’ll add photos at some point. Greetings from Portland, Oregon! I arrived here on Saturday working my way down via Amtrak Cascades (and briefly the coast starlight), getting all four of the remote intermediate […]
Greetings from the early morning Amtrak Cascades Train #501 as I spend all day going to Portland stopping at the 3 remote intermediate stations as I get every Cascades train station in the state of Washington (still have not decided if I want to make the quick trip down to Eugene). The sign of my […]
Greetings from Amtrak Cascades Train #517 as I speed back to Seattle returning from an afternoon trip where I road transit buses all the way up to Bellingham stopping to photograph the remaining needed Amtrak stations along the way. This morning was lazy and mostly just a walk with two hostel mates I spent socializing […]
The morning began in Vancouver, BC when I left the hostel and checked out probably much earlier than I needed too at about 5:30am, SkyTrain due to the holiday hadn’t started running yet, and had an easy ride via two trolleybuses, one articulated to Pacific Central Station. I got to the station at 6:00am, the […]
Greetings from Amtrak Cascades as I leave Vancouver behind me passing through the southern suburbs! I have cleared immigration back into the US at the Station in Vancouver but not customs, that has to ocurre at the Boarder On Saturday of my weekend in Vancouver I decided to start slowly and first went wondering trying […]
Today was my one weekday to railfan in Vancouver and it started off by taking my grandmother out to YVR Airport. After dropping her off around 9:30 I started my station to station of Vancouver SkyTrain with all stations on each of the three stop branches of the Canada Line. Next with decent weather and […]
Greetings from Vancouver! We arrived back this afternoon on the Rocky Mountaineer’s First Passage to the West Route. I have finally recovered my computer cord and it is wonderful to be able to type this update instead of thumbing it out on my iPhone Screen like the rest of them. I’m still processing photos which […]
Greetings from Banff where we arrived this afternoon! This morning was meant to be our time to explore the Chateau at Lake Louise had we been staying there except because it was full due to a conference we were staying down in village, the highest incorporated town in all of Canada at 5,411 feet (by […]
The best way to describe today is unorganized at the beginning and end when we were boarding and detraining the bus, but fine in the middle when we were experiencing the scenery of Banff and Jasper National Parks driving down to Lake Louise on a full bus with 50 other people, not the way I […]