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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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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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 […]
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 […]
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!
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 […]
Well I decided to continue south out of L.A. on Metrolink, I am still figuring out how I am going to do the non-continuous stations I got on the San Bernardino Line and am feeling Orange County and San Diego-bound to finish the Surfliner. All of these stops are on major Transcontinental Railroad Lines (the […]
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L.A. Union Station is On-Line!
Well this station (mostly because of a computer glitch) I had more photos of at one time but these four pages will have to do (the Red and Gold Line I did upload on Friday as part of my L.A. complete initiative) of the most heavily used Railroad Station west of Chicago, Particularly of the […]
Well in this update I present the Continental United State’s newest Heavy Rail Subway Line which runs completely underground. It should be the newest for a long time, knowing environmental and planning studies, there are no new system proposals anywhere in the pipeline, except for two that exists on US island’s the newer Puerto Rico […]