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San Diego’s Orange Line (and a homepage), the System is complete!

Well San Diego finally has a proper homepage! I also might as well go through a make a formal update for the rest of its stations: Santee Town Center–(29 photos) Gillespie Field–(33 photos) Arnele Avenue–(14 photos) El Cajon Transit Center–(22 photos) Amaya Drive–(16 photos) Grossmont Transit Center–(9 photos) La Mesa Blvd–(17 photos) Historic La Mesa […]

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Upload: The Green Line through Mission Valley

To continue my posts on the new San Diego Trolley Section (a real homepage I am in the process of finishing), I present the Green Line through the Mission Valley: 70th Street–(14 photos) Alvarado Medical Center–(29 photos) SDSU Transit Center–(39 photos) Grantville–(20 photos) Mission San Diego–(25 photos) Qualcomm Stadium–(28 photos) Fenton Parkway–(18 photos) Rio Vista–(12 […]

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San Diego’s Trolley Loop Around Downtown

In this update I bring the San Diego Trolley’s Loop Around Downtown, It is presently used by the orange line and the historic silver line PCC (which wasn’t operating when I visited San Diego), soon Orange Line trains will no longer loop, terminate at the Santa Fe Depot and be replaced by the Green Line: […]

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The San Diego Blue Line to the Boarder, the Trolley Line which Started it All

The San Diego Trolley Blue Line (originally called south line) is the trolley that began the light rail renaissance in the United States when it opened in 1981 on the extreme cheep using cars built in Germany (the U3s identical to ones running in Dusseldorf), platforms are non existent, you board from concrete directly in […]

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California

Upload: San Diego’s Stations: Old Town and Santa Fe Depot

Well I’ve been back in New York for 2 weeks and have barely taken the subway, I’m leaving again in another two weeks to take Amtrak out to RAGBRAI a bike ride that I’m doing for four days in Iowa. This means that all my free time has been spent on my bike and I’ve […]

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Amtrak California

The Two San Clemente Stations

Well I just realized I had never bothered to make a formal post that all Metrolink Stations in Orange County are now on the website. So today while I am first off to Grand Central to enjoy National Train Day, followed by a Yankee Game and then evening activity I’ll write a formal upload post […]

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Amtrak California

Coaster Coasts in With its 6 North County Stations

Coaster is the Commuter Rail that connects Oceanside (transfers to Sprinter) to downtown San Diego hence its name, it is one of the few commuter rail lines that has had no infill stations built opening with the same 8 stations it stops at today in 1995. I have just begun writing the San Diego’s Trolley […]

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The Sprinter has won with 15 Stations!

After finishing this odd little DMU Light Rail System in Northern San Diego County with that great name I just had to include a cheesy title for the post, here are those 15 winning (well most of them look exactly the same) stations. The line’s stops incorporate no artwork, have modular canopy structures, but have […]

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California

3 More in Orange County Irvine to San Juan Capistrano

Well I was planning to finish Orange County today but am just too tired so here are the next three continuing south, all quite different heavily used stations: Irvine–(78 photos) Laguna Niguel/Mission Vieljo–(34 photos) San Juan Capistrano–(44 photos) Enjoy!

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Amtrak California

Continuing down from Fullerton to Tustin

Well with today’s update I have continued south through Orange County with some quite large uploads as far as Tustin, all but 2 are also served by Amtrak. Fullerton (62 photos) Anaheim Canyon (23 photos) Anaheim (66 photos) Orange (77 photos) Santa Ana (44 photos) Tustin (60 photos), from two visits one in 2011 when […]