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A Ski Bus, TRAX, UTA Local Bus, JetBlue Red Eye, Q10 and A Train Trip Home Through the Night from Alta

The trip home on a JetBlue red eye 3 buses, TRAX, and the A train, began after a nice final day of skiing Alta. I headed back to our lodge, the Peruvian, and had a quick shower before a night of overnight travel. The trip home began with me and my Dad having a icy […]

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The Two Month Old FrontRunner South including the two train stations in Provo, across a grade crossing from each other.

Today was my one full day in Salt Lake City. I spent it rail fanning the new FrontRunner South extension who’s service is luckily fully interlined with FrontRunner north. The day though was rippled with delays from waiting to meet late trains going the other direction on the numerous passing sidings. This is somewhat expected […]

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The Scenic, Early and Chatty California Zephyr from DEN to SLC — One delay from a drunkard in Grand Jct who missed the train and made it wait, lying about having a 3 year old on board

After a nice day in Denver visiting friends and only taking RTD once, the 16th Street Free Mall Ride its time to continue my trip with my day on the California Zephyr from Denver to Salt Lake City, a route I’ve only done eastbound arriving in Denver after dark. I get to the station at […]

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Stopping at Grand Central’s Centennial on my way to JFK to fly to Denver through a Soon to be Demolished Monument of Modern Aviation

Today is the Centennial of Grand Central Station. I am a distant Vanderbuilt discendent and was trying to become part of the one descendent that was honored during the main dignitaries ceremony but that fell through. I still though had to stop by Grand Central today and have lunch for 20 cents through throughback to […]