Recent content by astron

Has anyone been on a Superliner car that's been refurbished? The refurbishments were promised starting back in 2021 but I haven't seen a single confirmation that any of these cars are out there yet. I rode the Coast Starlight twice last year and none of the cars were refurbished.

I didn't see this section on the forum until long after I posted my first trip video on YouTube! This is a video I shot late last summer riding the Coast Starlight overnight from Seattle to San Jose. It's a little long, but I wanted people to get some nice train vibes to put on in the...

It's a little more complicated than that. It seems like the narrative is now that the GG Bridge District conspired to keep BART off a lower deck of the bridge, driving the cost of the project up (San Mateo also left BARTD, shrinking the tax base for the district), leading BART to ask Marin to...

It's funny now that I posted this I haven't seen a single ALC-42 on the EB in the past week, and I'd imagine it has to do with the retrofits they're doing to the fleet to improve reliability. I was able to catch one photo of 301 from my window one day late last year! I love this livery, despite...

Hello fellow photo nerds, I'm a long-time photographer who has taken up photographing the trains around Seattle. I can see the Empire Builder and Cascades from my window, actually, so I started there but recently I've graduated to finding spots near the BNSF yard and grain elevator from which to...

Hi all, I'm up here in Seattle. I've loved Amtrak for a while now, after taking the train coast-to-coast in a roomette (well, on the Zephyr portion, at least) about a decade ago as a recent college grad. Since then I've lived in Boston and rode Acela and the Regional to NY for work, and now up...