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Canada Pacific Northwest Transit Adventures

Quiet, Sleepy Amtrak Cascades Train #518 to the Frequent Vancouver SkyTrain

This is Part 4 of my 2018 Pacific Northwest Up-to-Date Trip. I return to King Street Station at 6:12, after getting the 3 new Link Stations, a little early by my standards. I’m feeling a quite tired (my body thinks its 9:12) and my technology is starting to die. I eat the Gyro plate I’ve purchased […]

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Canada Pacific Northwest

Sounder to Lakewood, King Street Renovated, and More From Seattle

Over the past few days I’ve finally had time to finish writing (and uploaded all photo additions) of the first section of my Spring Break Travelogue: Spring Skiing Spring Break in the Pacific Northwest. I’ve again dated the posts (to preserve historical accuracy to the days I actually took the trips but thought a post summarizing […]

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Canada Pacific Northwest Transit Adventures

Whistler to Seattle aboard Greyhound, the Train2Main, and Amtrak Cascades Wyeing out of Vancouver

I have two excellent days of skiing at Whistler/Blackcomb and should have paid the $50 for a 50% off third day; the resort is so huge there just wasn’t time to explore all of it. To get to and from the ski area (the HI doesn’t have Ski In/Ski Out access or a free shuttle) […]

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Canada Pacific Northwest Transit Adventures

Amtrak Cascades up Puget Sound to a $1 Greyhound ride up the Sea-to-Sky Highway

The reason for coming out to the Pacific Northwest is to use up my two already paid for days of skiing on my Mountain Collective Pass at Whistler/Backcomb. The largest ski area in North America! I considered booking a through Amtrak Throughway ticket to Whistler the fares seem to very a bit. I didn’t end […]

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Canada Transit Adventures

A nice two days in Montreal getting half the Metro and Riding two of AMT’s Commuter Rail Lines

My two full days in Montreal were pretty much exactly what I could have hoped for except for the weather on Saturday, rainy and grey. I spent the days and early evenings being a tourist in Montreal and getting about half of the Montreal Metro done. The late evenings I spent hanging out in the […]

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Canada

Upload: Vancouver, Every SkyTrain Station plus West Coast Express!

I guess I meant to divide this up into multiple updates I just got going though on making stations for Vancouver so here it is in one big update with 1057 photos! (If my calculations are correct): SkyTrains Expo Line-This Line has 20 stations and started it all, be sure not to miss New Westminster […]

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Canada Fall Foliage through Domes

Upload: Full Rocky Mountaineer Coverage is Here!

Happy Thanksgiving! (Slightly belated, I was hoping to get this out right before I went away for the weekend but didn’t quite have the chance) I am not going to go through this upload in great detail but the two separate sections covering my entire Rocky Mountaineer Golden Circle via Whistler Trip with about 1500 […]

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Canada

Upload: A Homepage for Canada

An actual informative homepage for Canada.SubwayNut.com

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Canada

Upload: Edmonton LRT – North America’s First Modern Light Rail

Edmonton’s 13 station Light Rail System with 271 photos is here!

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Canada

Upload: Ottawa’s O-Train is Here With its 5 Simple Stations!

This update is of Ottawa’s simple, starter and small, DMU light rail system that uses Bombardier Talent BR643 DMU diesel-powered vehicles, that are the same as those use by Deutsche Bahn, although the onboard restroom has been decommissioned. Evidence of the cars German’s origins are still evident in some subtle signage such as text on […]