After getting off the Pennsylvanian at Elizabethtown its time to continue my points/run the Keystone (connecting to an Amtrak Regional) photo stop. I start by spending the next 20ish minutes getting photos of the modern platforms and historic station house that make up the Elizabeth Station. The restored depot with a stone building has been […]
Category: Finishing CA to an AGR Roomette
When I booked this months ago I decided to turn my final day of this trip into a quafecta points run to get more Keystone corridor stations of Elizabethtown, Mount Joy, and Lancaster plus a quick layover for an extra 100 points in Philly. I should also add that the Capital to Pennsylvanian Route is […]
I go back to the Chicago Metropolitan Lounge at 5:10, flash my Select+ Card and my train ticket. The agent tells me that I should go to the main waiting room at around 5:30 for regular coach boarding. I pick my backpack up from the red cap and hear an announcement for lounge boarding for […]
The State Supported Illinois Trains (Illinois Zephyr/Carl Sandburg, Illini/Saluki, and Lincoln Service) offer quite cheap and back tickets to and from Chicago especially when they are at low buckets. On previous trips to Chicago I had never really taken advantage of them (using them more to actually go places). These trips can only really be […]
I have one major goal for the website during my evening visiting old family friends in Milwaukee. The goal is to visit the Milwaukee Airport. Had the Empire Builder been less than an hour late yesterday my plan was to buy a $7.50 for an extra 100 AGR points and the ten minute ride to […]
I’m not going to fully blog about my time in the Twin Cities. The main purpose of the visit was seeing old friends. I did manage to ride Northstar on Sunday one stop from Target Field, Minneapolis to Fridley. This trip was after I attended a Minnesota Twins game and was a New York City […]
I don’t sleep as well this night, waking up more than on the last night. There is a moment near Devils Lake (but I don’t get photos of its depot, one of the few on the route I still haven’t seen). I also wake up again I think in Grand Forks although I’m on the […]
I wake up again at 5:52 at a siding in Libby, not the actual station. A freight passes we continue. We then proceed into the station, arriving at 5:58, all I see is concrete and the tactile warning strip on the platform looking down at the top of the window. My friend is fast asleep, (he […]
We return at 4:22 to the lounge exactly as boarding begins for our Sleeper Car on the Portland Section of the Empire Builder. We walk back out and onto the platform to the trainset we walked by earlier that was already sitting in the station. Luggage is getting loaded into the Coach/Baggage. The attendant isn’t […]
At 2:11am I wake up briefly south of Chico, I’ve a manged the sleep through the service stop at Sac! I see something that looks line white plastic along the line. At 5:42 I wake up in misty mountains, I look at my phone and realize Shasta is on the other side of the train. […]