Greetings from the San Joaquin (posting via its wi-fi) as I ride into the sunset and then darkness from Hanford down to Bakersfield where I’ll transfer to the Amtrak bus down to L.A, for the night. This morning began in Midpines where I took the one morning YARTS bus down at 6:20am, after the ten […]
Greetings from the Midpines, CA (MDP) Amtrak Thruway Bus (operated by YARTS) Stop! Yes I am spending the night directly at this stop since it is located at the entrance to the driveway of the Yosemitti Bug Youth Hostel whose stop location is described as being at the Hostel on Amtrak’s website (with the ridiculous […]
Greetings from Sacramento, California and the youth hostel here! I arrived here yesterday on the early California Zephyr from Salt Lake City that arrived 7 minutes early after being early across the entire Great Basin of Nevada giving me the opportunity to get a photo essay of the chain linked fence shack at Elko, Nevada […]
Greetings from Salt Lake City, home to TRAX and FrontRunner that have undergone major extensions since I was last here almost two years ago in March. I arrived here on Sunday night, flying in on JetBlue with my Dad during the Super Bowl, slightly ironically on their green plane painted for the New York Jets. […]
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Well, in about 24 hours I am off on my big winter trip to Utah for skiing, then California for the rest of its transit stations and then returning to New York via the Canadian across Canada (making sure I visit Vancouver, WA and ride the Portland Ariel Tramway on my way north). The last […]
I pride myself for this website on not visiting stations by car, I find it takes some of the fun out of it, since I enjoy trying to coordinate train and bus schedules and taking long walks in random places along random train lines. I might has well discuss my outing today: I went on […]
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)