Shoddy & Mungo, love that! I have whole albums of stuff called 'Through the Train Window'. The ever changing scene, love it, it also helps that my train tickets are free
Percy Brothers Hotspur Press isn't bad either.
Super jealous!!!! I have never been on a train.Shoddy & Mungo, love that! I have whole albums of stuff called 'Through the Train Window'. The ever changing scene, love it, it also helps that my train tickets are free
I have a friend that lives in Louisville Kentucky, she told me trains were mostly for freight, its almost unheard of for people to use trains. I have another friend that lives in Chicago who uses the train all the time for commuting. So I guess trains are different over there, here most towns and cities are connected with railway lines and people should use them more than they do. I wonder what Ted's terse take is on this over in Cali?
Railroad crossings are all over, in fact Mike worked for the railroad for several years. And yes, we see mostly freight trains. Passenger trains are few and far between.
Example: When my sister, who lives in Los Angeles (the state's largest city) wants to take a train to Sacramento (the state capital), she first has to take long-distance bus to a city in the Central Valley. Same if she takes the train from LA to Santa Cruz (with the result that the trip is 11-12 hours by train compared to around 6 by car). The passenger trains just aren't very convenient for most locations. There is a good interurban system in the San Francisco Bay Area (SF, parts of Silicon Valley, Oakland, Berkeley, ec.) that carries a lot of commuters. I think a lot of places that are now bedroom communities for SF, San Jose, and LA were nowhere hick towns when the rails were laid down.
Think: drive-through funeral homes (way way before Covid).
Our closest train terminal is 25 miles away. Trains only go to the cities, buses every where else. In rural NY everyone has a car (or at least a tractor) to get places. If I want to bus to our nearby small city, Auburn, (8 miles) I need to leave at 8am and can’t come back until 4pm. We are a two car family.Example: When my sister, who lives in Los Angeles (the state's largest city) wants to take a train to Sacramento (the state capital), she first has to take long-distance bus to a city in the Central Valley. Same if she takes the train from LA to Santa Cruz (with the result that the trip is 11-12 hours by train compared to around 6 by car). The passenger trains just aren't very convenient for most locations. There is a good interurban system in the San Francisco Bay Area (SF, parts of Silicon Valley, Oakland, Berkeley, ec.) that carries a lot of commuters. I think a lot of places that are now bedroom communities for SF, San Jose, and LA were nowhere hick towns when the rails were laid down.
Not to mention that California is the absolute home of car culture.
Sounds too familiar. We're only 10-12 minutes from Santa Cruz, even less to slightly smaller Scotts Valley, but we don't even have bus service.
Fabulous. I love riding trains and shooting through the window. I’ve fairly recently moved to the west coast of the US and sadly the public transportation here sucks… I miss riding trains.
That’s exactly how I do it.
And many times I get a built-in filter due to the grimy windows.
Loving all your filter choices… they work well with the images. This third image with the beautiful rust color is fab.
New York City & Chicago, yep, for sure… street cars/trams and the BART subway in San Francisco… but most of the US doesn’t have anything unless you’re doing a long Amtrak trip. If I were the Queen of the Country I’d put public transport everywhere!
What a small world. That’s where the corporate office of the company I work for is located.
You must remedy that! It’s awesome.
SO. DUMB. L.A. should have a massive public train system.
Think: drive-through funeral homes (way way before Covid).
That’s about what I’m dealing with here.
