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Amtrak California Transit Adventures

To Oakland via the San Joaquin, riding the Ex-NJT Comaro Running an Hour Late

Introduction: The biggest thing on my list to do while in the Bay Area is to ride the California Comets. These cars are ex-NJT Comaro Cars, that are now on basically their third lives after the state of California bought them to try and alleviate a massive car shortage their currently having. These cars run on […]

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Amtrak Rockies Region Transit Adventures

A Roomette’s Good Night’s Sleep Through Nevada from Salt Lake City to Truckee to Snowless Squaw Valley

Introduction: The original plan when me and my Dad planned this segment of the trip back in November was to ski Alta for two days and then ski Squaw Valley for two days, take an Amtrak Roomette to Truckee and then ski Squaw Valley for two days. These two ski areas are both included on […]

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The Charleston Train Station Still With Separate But Equal Waiting Rooms

I’ve finally gotten my three posts from my Spontaneous, Quick Trip to Charleston Trip. The main new Amtrak station I got a photo essay of I had a chance to write the Charleston Amtrak Station–(51 Photos) with the two distinctive mirror image waiting rooms in such a seemingly modern station that I found a quite powerful example […]

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Amtrak Metro-North

The 3 New Havens: West, Union and State

I think the title describes all of this update, finally completing most of the Shore Line East Route and another major NEC Station: New Haven-State St–(38 Photos) New Haven–(104 New Photos) West Haven–(69 Photos) Enjoy!

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Amtrak Metro-North

Update: Every Stop on Shore Line East: Branford to New London

This is one of the larger updates I’ve written recently since it covers 7 stations with 100s of photographs. Here are all 7 intermediate stops from Branford east that is every stop on Shore Line East outside of New Haven: New London–(113 Photos) Old Saybrook–(55 Photos) Westbrook–(46 Photos) Clinton–(40 Photos)–including Beach Grove Passing Madison–(40 Photos) […]

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Hartford, Berlin, Meriden, Wallingford are here, Completing the intermediate stops of the Inland Route and Amtrak’s Shuttle

This update is pretty much the station’s I visited on my last trip on Wednesday with Hartford coming straight out of the archive from a visit in March I had never quite written. Hartford is a station I definitely need to revisit. Hartford, CT–(48 Photos) Berlin, CT–(43 Photos) Meriden, CT–(53 Photos) Wallingford, CT–(30 Photos) Enjoy!

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Amsterdam (Station Closed) and Utica-Union Station

I’m still figuring out how I want to write up the Adirondack Scenic Railway for the website, so until then I have made the pages for the new Amtrak Stations I visited; Amsterdam, NY–(45 Photos) Utica, NY–(130 Photos) Enjoy!

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Amtrak Boston

Wickford Jct. to Exeter, NH plus more for the 3 Boston Sations

This update isn’t much, just the rest of my Wickford Junction to Exeter Round-Trip Day last month: Exeter, NH–(54 Photos) North Station–(23 Photos)–Including a Pull-Pull Train with a P42 under the Boston Graden South Station–(8 Photos) Back Bay–(18 Photos) Wickford Jct, RI–(50 Photos) Enjoy!

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Updates: The Milwaukee Airport, Strutvent

This Upload I just didn’t quite finish before I left on my Local Trains to Boston and Vermont Trip. So it’s not going to be the usual post-Boston trip update of all the additional photos I have. Instead I’m continuing the final intermediate stations of my Coast Starlight-Empire Builder Trip across the country. Minneapolis Updates with the […]

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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 […]