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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This is Part 3 of my 2018 Pacific Northwest Up-to-Date Trip I take King County transit Rapid Ride Bus Route F, the relatively short ride to Tukwila International Blvd–(15 Photos). There I head up the escalators to the Angle Lake-bound platform. I notice new Got Wheels? take the elevators disks painted on the ground, and signs that […]
This is Part 3 of my 2018 Pacific Northwest Up-to-Date Trip I leave the Society Hostel at 11:15 with my luggage and started walking north the few blocks to Union Station. I pass Union Station/NW 5th & Gilsan–(2 Photos) and then some northbound trains curving around the curve just north of Union Station/NW 6th & Hoyt–(3 Photos). I […]
This is Part 2 of my 2018 Pacific Northwest Up-to-Date Trip With the time change I wake up at the Society Hotel early, a little before 6:00am. I have my room until 11:00am (I’m taking the Noon Amtrak Cascades Train northbound) and decide to just get dressed, eat a granola bar and go since according […]
After my break to write most of BART (the rest of it is too connected with MUNI for me to deal with at the moment) I’ve finally found the time to continue updating the Amtrak stations I got more photos of on my cross-country Amtrak trip last June. This Update has the final 4 Amtrak […]
Well I was in the mood for some easier writing and it seemed like I am at a decent point to take a break from California and start uploading photos from my trip in the Pacific Northwest when I passed through on my way to take the Canadian, this update finally ads my last two […]
DMUs although popular in Europe are extremely rare in the United States because of strict FRA compliant standards. Four systems in the US use European cars on freight tracks but they have to be time separated. There is only one system (that opened in 2009) completely designed around them using both unique modern DMUs from […]
In this update, I have fully finished uploading MAX to the website, the 3rd largest Light Rail System in the United States and the one with the most stations! First is the MAX Expo Line: Expo Center—(30 photos) Delta Park Vanport TC–(8 photos) Kenton/N Denver Ave–(16 photos) N Lombard TC–(33 photos) Rosa Parks–(23 photos) N […]
First I finished the Blue East-West MAX that has a whopping 51 stations (47 actually served on any given run because of the directional routings in downtown): Cleveland Ave–(19 photos) Gresham Central TC–(20 photos) Gresham City Hall–(20 photos) Civic Drive–(19 photos) Ruby Junction/E 197th Ave–(20 photos) Rockwood/E 188th Ave, a station rebuilt with quite striking […]
This stop was just begging to be added separately, the one Underground Station on the Portland MAX, and the deepest transit station in North America at 260 feet below the street: Washington Park–(page rebuilt with 38 new photos)