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Amtrak Transit Adventures

A Slightly Late End to my Lake Shore Adventure, and Upload: the 3 Amtrak Stations From My Trip

Well after my mid-trip Lake Shore post on Friday the delays got worse due to a freight train ahead of us with a defect and we got to Utica an hour late before a stop outside of the platforms in Albany when the train was divided with the cars in darkness before pulling into the […]

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Greetings From the On-Time Lake Shore Limited and Making Progress on the CTA

Greetings from the Lounge Car of the for once On Time Lake Shore Limited! Well over the course of my three days I got quite a bit of the CTA done, getting the entire Pink, Brown, and Loop photographed along with the southern half of the Red and Green Lines, and the Skokie Swift, the […]

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No the website (nor me) isn’t dead – I’m back from Chicago – a detailed summery of my trip

Well, I meant to make website updates while I was in Chicago, but the business of my trip there, visiting relatives and a quick CTA trip at the end of it prevented me from really having any free time to make any website updates, I’ve also barely had time to sleep, much less be online […]

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In Albany, on my way to Chicago, waiting for the late Boston Section of Lake Shore Limited to arrive

Well, here’s my first post as I am currently making my way from New York to Chicago to visit relatives and for some CTA railfanning. It was an uneventful trip up the Hudson on the New York Section of the Lake Shore Limited, we arrived in Albany five minutes early with no sign yet (it […]