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Amtrak Boston Transit Adventures

By Slow Train 202 miles in just over 6 hours – from Rockland, Maine to Boston: the Maine Eastern Railroad to the Downeaster

This post is part 1 of 2 of 433 Miles on 3 Coastal Trains Home From Rockland, Maine We leave our house at about 10:10, so I can drive the first 48 miles down Route 1 to Searsport to start my long coastal journey. As we near Searsport we we pass a railroad track and […]

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The Research Triangle Stations: Raleigh, Cary, Durham

These are the first of 3 stations those in the Research Triangle of the 9 new ones I visited on my Recent Trip to North Carolina on the Piedmont Corridor. Don’t worry, there plenty of photos of North Carolina’s unique restored Heritage car fleet. Cary is definitely one of my starts to a photo essay […]

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Kingston and Mystic, now every Amtrak Station between New York and Boston

A couple weekends ago I went up to Rhode Island for the night to visit a friend and on the way there I did a stopover in Mystic, on the way back I got dropped off at Kingston, the only two Northeast Regional Stations between Philadelphia and Boston I was missing! Here are the new […]

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Amtrak Metro-North Transit Adventures

Local Trains home from Kingston, RI (making 35 out of 38 stops)

Me and my friend go out for a nice breakfast at a restaurant near the Kingston Station called the Station House Restaurant, a perfectly good breakfast place. We then headed over to the Kingston Station–(71 Photos) nice and early a little before 10:00am so I can get my full photo essay. The first thing we notice […]

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Amtrak Metro-North Transit Adventures

Up to Westerly via Mystic

I have a good friend who weekends nearly every weekend at the beaches in Rhode Island. I’ve been trying to finish the Amtrak stations on the Northeast Corridor between Philly and Boston, with just Mystic and Kingston remaining (I got off at Kingston with this same friend but in the dark). Consulting the timetables, I […]

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Amtrak California

The California Zephyr through the Sierras is complete: Colfax & Truckee, now every station west of Provo!

Well I’m slightly lying in that update, I’m still missing Sacramento and Davis but those stations should be done in the next few day. I can’t believe though that I’ve set foot on every California Zephyr train platform west of Provo. That is a distance of 875 miles! I will admit that all of the […]

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Amtrak California Transit Adventures

Finishing the Red Line, Select+ Still Doesn’t Get You a Preferred Seat in LA and Spending the $160 on a Roomette for Actual Sleep to Tucson

I walk into Los Angeles Union Station–(11 total photos) after coming down from Sacramento on the Claremont Bus via the San Joaquin and immediately walk through the waiting room with its historic comfy benches that has been corded off to keep the homeless out and fully enforce the “ticketed passengers only” policy. Private security guards are around […]

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Amtrak California Transit Adventures

Sitting in the Empty Superliner on the San Joaquin from Sacramento to Bakersfield to the bus to Montclair to finish the San Bernardino Metrolink Line – Finishing Riding Every Inch of Amtrak in California!

My original plan for the trip after me and my Dad decided to go skiing at Squaw Valley (before we knew about the lack of snow, in November when we were planning the trip) was to send Dad home and spend a couple days in Northern California, a couple days in Southern California to finish […]

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Amtrak California Transit Adventures

Enjoying Completely Empty, Less-Comfortable Capital Corridor Cars back to Sac

Capital Corridor train #744 arrives into  Santa Clara-University–(20 Photos) a few minutes late. I board one car that’s crowded and walk back to the empty last car just behind the locomotive as we depart at 6:00, 4 minutes late. The conductor comes and scans my ticket, asking “Are there two of you?” When both of my […]

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Amtrak California Transit Adventures

Taking a Late BART Train to Millbrae via the Airport to Just Making Caltrain to Mountain View to Finish the VTA Light Rail and the Amtrak/ACE Santa Clara Stations

Bay Area Needs, Introduction: For my day in the Bay Area I debated just riding BART around a bit (for under three hours, the maximum time your allowed to ride on a single fare) to finish some things before heading into San Francisco to enjoy the evening before taking the bus to a Capital Corridor […]