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 […]
Category: Transit Adventures
These posts are simply my day to day adventures as I photograph every rail station on the New York City Subway
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. […]
I get to LA and find the TRAX Lounge getting set up. I head over and don’t find wifi. I head back and sit on the ground outside Starbucks, the busy terminal moving all around me to upload some more blog posts. Then I go for a walk and return to TRAX around 9:00. The […]
I return to the Flagstaff Train Station at the stroke of 8:30 as I’ve checked that the trains late. The reason I returned at 8:30 is because the friendly ticket agent asked me to return at that time. She immediately says that as she expected the train has encountered some freight traffic and is running […]
Introduction: I originally booked my AGR award only from Flagstaff to Columbus, Wisconsin (with the idea that I would get off in MSP, and my friend would get on in L.A.) I told the agent this and her response was get off the train wherever you want. The plan was to go back to Greyhound […]
Yet again Greyhound is a Nightmare! I have a nice relaxing morning hanging out at the house of some friends, the perfect, post lack of sleep overnight train activity. At about 1:30 I get dropped off at the Greyhound station for the 2:00pm bus I booked yesterday getting the cheapest $13 fare by paying at 7/11. […]
The Red Line for the Short Ride to Union Station comes immediately and at 9:05 I head up to the Metro Center exit, it has tons of signs dividing entering and exit passengers through its locked faregates but no staff. I walk through the tunnel and find the desk in the lobby where coach passengers […]
After two days attending the wedding up at Lake Arrowhead and then driving down to San Diego to attend a Padres Game. On Sunday in San Diego I am off to resume my major Amtrak adventure who’s main attraction would be four nights in sleepers on my AGR points from Phoenix, Arizona to St. Paul, […]