boratwanksta
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- Mar 22, 2006
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i've kept wanting to ask this question on this board for quite some time, but have kept forgetting to do so until now. anyway, how many miles overall have you ridden on Amtrak? i realize a few of you do have the # of miles you've ridden in your signatures, but i want to get a better idea myself if this board is mostly made up of riders that've heavily ridden Amtrak, a mix between light riders, moderate riders, and heavy riders, or mainly low/moderate riders. and as usual, the only rules i have about this is that i'd only calculate the number of miles you've ridden based on the portions of Amtrak you've ridden on(and no double-counting any portions of rail you've ridden as part of a round-trip leg on a trip back to a starting point, since that's only retracing the rail route one's ridden). i will add though that i'll allow milage to count for anyone who's ridden aboard Amtrak over any portions where it usually doesn't run(i.e. California Zephyr being rerouted from Utah to Denver over the Union Pacific Wyoming line, Coast Starlight reroute between L.A. and Bakersfield and to points north along the usual Amtrak San Joaquin line, etc...). and of course, you can count as milage any trips along any routes that Amtrak no longer runs(i.e. Desert Wind, Floridian, etc.). Canada rail milage can obviously only be listed if its part of a cross-border Amtrak/VIA service, or if its part of cross-border regular Amtrak-only service(i.e. Cascades or Adirondack).
with those rules said, i'll start this thread out, by listing each of the portions of Amtrak milage i've ridden(and would like to see others follow this format). lol, i'm sure others will greatly look at me as an amateur Amtrak rider, based on how much(or little, to some) of the system i've ridden. regardless though of how you interpret the amount of milage i've ridden, i'm betting this'll be an interesting thread.
Chicago to Denver, California Zephyr: 1,038 miles
Chicago to Ann Arbor, MI, Wolverine: 243 miles
Chicago to Bloomington-Normal, IL, State House/various trains: 124 miles
total: 1405 miles(and knowing i'll probably do a trip somewhere new and soon this year to move my milage count upwards)
with those rules said, i'll start this thread out, by listing each of the portions of Amtrak milage i've ridden(and would like to see others follow this format). lol, i'm sure others will greatly look at me as an amateur Amtrak rider, based on how much(or little, to some) of the system i've ridden. regardless though of how you interpret the amount of milage i've ridden, i'm betting this'll be an interesting thread.
Chicago to Denver, California Zephyr: 1,038 miles
Chicago to Ann Arbor, MI, Wolverine: 243 miles
Chicago to Bloomington-Normal, IL, State House/various trains: 124 miles
total: 1405 miles(and knowing i'll probably do a trip somewhere new and soon this year to move my milage count upwards)