2012 In review, A Year Riding 66 Amtrak Trains and many other Transit Systems

I’ve been wanting to make webpage updates but have managed to loose nearly all the pictures I took in 2012 to corrupt hard drive issues and I’m still figuring out the best way (and how much money I’m willing to spend) to try and get the photos back. I thought I might as well do a 2012 in review post since I’ve been keeping a spreadsheet of all my Amtrak and intercity other travel.

The totals on Amtrak are (every trip blogged about to some degree):

• 12,056 miles on Amtrak trains
• 66 Individual Trains:
  • Acela Express
  • Adirondack (5-6 times, including my round-trip with VIA Equipment, don’t know if I should count the cross platform change in Albany as two trains although it was one ticket), road the full route
  • Amtrak Cascades—2 segments
  • California Zephyr
  • Capital Limited, route in full
  • Carl Sandburg
  • City of New Orleans
  • Coast Starlight—3 segments
  • Empire Service—4 segments, route in full
  • Ethan Allen Express
  • Heartland Flyer—2 segments, full route
  • Illini
  • Keystone Service—6 segments
  • Lake Shore Limited
  • Lincoln Service— 2 segments, full route
  • Maple Leaf— 3 segments
  • Missouri River Runner— full route
  • Northeast Regional—10 total segments, just one ticket was only along the NEC, all other segments on connecting points runs to other trains
  • Pacific Surfliner — 5 segments
  • Pere Marquette
  • San Joaquin — 11 segments
  • Southwest Cheif
  • Springfield Shuttle— 3 segments
  • Sunset Limited
  • Texas Eagle – 2 segments, full route
• I also rode 247 miles on AmBuses (in California plus the substitute between Seattle and Everett due to a mudslide)
• I traveled 2,775 miles on VIA Rail Canada, from Vancouver to Toronto on the Canadian
• I also went about 2,508 miles on Intercity Greyhound, Fung Wah and Mega Buses

2013 will be a fun year for travel although there will definitely be less of it since I’ve qualified for Select+ and will begin all my trips in the ClubAcela lounge at Penn Station, I’ve already visited once waiting to put a friend who was visiting on NJ Transit back to South Jersey