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Upload: The Empire Builder in Washington, across Montana and into North Dakota with new photo essays of Shelby and Williston

I’m finally getting back to updates from my June trip, these are all on my Empire Builder trip starting in Washington heading across Montana and into North Dakota, a number of the updates are simply photos out the rear window that I decided to add to the already built station pages (or a few out […]

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Amtrak Boston

Update: Brunswick, Freeport, Portland, Hyannis: Downeaster and CapeFLYER Stations

I’ve finally gotten all my photos uploaded from my  Downeaster to the CapeFlyer Trip. First the Amtrak stations in Maine and North Station from my Downeaster Trip: Brunswick, ME–(29 Photos added) Freeport, ME–(47 Photos) Portland, ME–(10 Photos added) North Station–(10 Photos) North Station (Green Line)–(2 Photos) From the Cape Flyer Day! Boston-South Station–(19 Photos) Hyannis–(63 Photos) Enjoy!

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Transit Adventures

Home From Cape Cod in High-Speed Luxury: The Provincetown IV to Acela Express First Class

Introduction: Today is my day to head home from this Downeaster to the CapeFlyer Trip in High Speed Luxury: the Bay State Ferry Company’s Provincetown High Speed Ferry leaving at 3:00pm to the last Acela Express train of the evening, leaving at 5:20 using an upgrade coupon for first class travel. The day begins with […]

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Boston Transit Adventures

The Relaxing, Scenic CapeFLYER out to Hyannis (and connecting to Wellfleet on an old Plymouth & Brockton Coach)

Today is the second highlight of my Downeaster to CapeFlyer Trip, riding the CapeFlyer out to Hyannis and connecting to the P & B Bus to Wellfleet. The day begins with me and my grandmother having an uneventful drive in from Needham on a Sunday Morning, it takes about 20 minutes and we arrive at […]

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Transit Adventures

The Evening Downeaster Train from Brunswick to Boston (with a terrible cafe attendant)

I have a nice walk in Brunswick, stopping at a cafe to use the internet for a bit and for some pizza for part of my dinner. I also need to sample something from the Downeaster Cafe car since it tries to be local (and is cheeper) like the one on Amtrak Cascades. I return […]

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Transit Adventures

Amtrak’s Shortest Train: A Ride on Downeaster #678 and #677 (The Only Passenger!): The Downeaster Shuttle Round-Trip from Brunswick to Freeport, 9 miles in 12 minutes

Greetings from Brunswick, Maine! As I continue my Downeaster to CapeFlyer trip. This past April the State of Maine decided to start an experiment with the Downeaster trainset that layovers in Brunswick by having it on weekends make a shuttle trip between 3:00pm and 3:45 to and from Freeport, its intended use is to let […]

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Transit Adventures

The Slow Concord Coach Lines Coastal Route Down Route 1 from Bangor to Brunswick to Return from Maine via the Downeaster (with a side trip on the Cape Flyer)

Introduction: I’ve been to Maine nearly every summer of my life, my extended family has a house near Ellsworth, much farther downeast than Amtrak’s Downeaster Goes. Only once before (when this blog was in its infancy) have I gone up to Maine not driving with my parents. On that trip I took Greyhound north through […]

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Amtrak Pacific Northwest

Oregon Updates from my Recent Coast Starlight Trip

After my break to write most of BART (the rest of it is too connected with MUNI for me to deal with at the moment) I’ve finally found the time to continue updating the Amtrak stations I got more photos of on my cross-country Amtrak trip last June. This Update has the final 4 Amtrak […]

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California

The East Bay BART Stations are Finally Here!

The reason this blog and website has been blank for a few days is because I was writing an update with more than half of BART, specifically every station in the East Bay in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. I’ve also added connecting graphics between the Amtrak stations and BART. BART also has a new […]

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NYC Subway Transit Adventures

The R32 Brightliners on the J and too many J trains and two few Z trains during Skip-Stops

Every summer for the past few years the R32 ‘Brightliners’ by far the oldest cars nearly 50 years old that normally dwell on the C have been switched onto the A train so they can give their not all that good air conditioners a rest on the outdoor portions of the A train. This summer […]