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I enjoyed the views of this route, but I didn't take a ton of pictures. I saw a lot of cool, rustic bridges zoom by. I'd have needed to be very alert and focused to have nabbed any of them.
I left LA at 6, so the first part is mostly dark. I got of off the train and got back on it at 4 AM for my stay in Arizona. The first day I mostly just wanted to sleep, especially since I hadn't been able to sleep at 7,000 foot elevation. So I mostly just chilled, wrote up trip notes and started to sort my pictures.
I did get this shot leaving LA, which I think is one of my top 5 shots:
What are my top 5 overall? That one, the cell pic at Hopi Point, this Grand Canyon Railway picture that somehow got the least instagram likes of all my photos, my my strongly framed Coast Starlight and I guess this shot of the canyon. (Or maybe this one is 5?)
On the train I did get this picture crossing the railroad bridge over the Mississippi:
But none of my other bridge pictures came out because I had my camera on the wrong settings *facepalm* That river looks better in black and white. It's dull brown surrounded by dull brown. Now I can add having seen that river to the list of things I've done.
With the Sunset Chief complete, I've done most of the US rail routes I want to do. I kinda want to do the Lake Shore Limited, but I'd have to do a long way for a fairly short, mostly overnight trip, ditto City of New Orleans. If I go back to Glacier, I may take the long way back via the California Zephyr, assuming the current regime doesn't gut Amtrak like they are threatening. I could go on for a loooong time on that issue, but I'll sum it up by saying that making our infrastructure worse is dumb.
I will have one more trip post, a sort of odds and ends one.
Part 7: Odds and Ends
I left LA at 6, so the first part is mostly dark. I got of off the train and got back on it at 4 AM for my stay in Arizona. The first day I mostly just wanted to sleep, especially since I hadn't been able to sleep at 7,000 foot elevation. So I mostly just chilled, wrote up trip notes and started to sort my pictures.
I did get this shot leaving LA, which I think is one of my top 5 shots:
What are my top 5 overall? That one, the cell pic at Hopi Point, this Grand Canyon Railway picture that somehow got the least instagram likes of all my photos, my my strongly framed Coast Starlight and I guess this shot of the canyon. (Or maybe this one is 5?)
On the train I did get this picture crossing the railroad bridge over the Mississippi:
But none of my other bridge pictures came out because I had my camera on the wrong settings *facepalm* That river looks better in black and white. It's dull brown surrounded by dull brown. Now I can add having seen that river to the list of things I've done.
With the Sunset Chief complete, I've done most of the US rail routes I want to do. I kinda want to do the Lake Shore Limited, but I'd have to do a long way for a fairly short, mostly overnight trip, ditto City of New Orleans. If I go back to Glacier, I may take the long way back via the California Zephyr, assuming the current regime doesn't gut Amtrak like they are threatening. I could go on for a loooong time on that issue, but I'll sum it up by saying that making our infrastructure worse is dumb.
I will have one more trip post, a sort of odds and ends one.
Part 7: Odds and Ends
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Date: 2019-01-30 05:49 pm (UTC)From:In 500 years archeologists will be arguing about all the detail--it captures 21st century infrastructure so well.
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