The day begins in a hotel room I’m sharing with a cousin by airport in Moline who is flying back to New York at 4:00am. I sleep in until after 8:00 only having 50 miles of riding. I then enjoy a huge included breakfast, pack up my sattlebags and am out of the hotel at […]
Greetings from Highland Park after not losing anymore time on the Lake Shore, the route redeeming itself for me at least westbound with the much better schedule and after two good meals in the diner. The fact that boarding in Penn Station needs to be done so quickly they can’t do assign seats makes the […]
Greetings from the hour late Lake Shore Limited just west of Syracuse, all the time lost in the Albany Station At 6:14 we passed a grade crossing which says high speed trains. I know Amtrak basically bought the tracks from CSX and was planning to install Passive train control for higher speeds, I wonder if […]
Greetings from the Lakeshore Limited as I go up the Hudson, luckily in a window seat, my bike in the baggage car to do four days of Ragbrai in Iowa. I don’t have my computer with me so I’ll just be updating from my iPhone. Right before I left I continued down the NEC to […]
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New Brunswick’s Two Stations
With the state of my hard drives and back-ups working on photos from January is by far easiest for me right now. After my Pascack Valley Line Update, these four connected stations on the Northeast Corridor were just begging for me to do. I am also leaving to bike ride across half of Iowa on […]
With my hard drive issues right now there are not that many things I can easily update right now. I wish I could just be slowly cruising through the photos on my Tennessee to Texas Trip bringing you all the odd little transit systems and Amtrak stations I road and visited on that trip. Well […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]