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Re: PHOTOS from my "Recent" Travels, Part 3B: More from Los Angeles & the Pacific Surfliner |
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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Thu Feb 12 22:55:43 2015, in response to Re: PHOTOS from my Recent Travels, Part 3A: Los Angeles Metro, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Mon Aug 18 00:02:49 2014. So, I guess the summer isn't so recent anymore. Life threw me some curveballs over the past few months so I didn't have time to attack the photo queue further. But I'll just pick up where I left off.Angels Flight was closed back in July (it may still be for all I know) so when I walked by it, I had to settle for the photos you see here.   I assume most people don't manage to pull this off, but I arrived and left Los Angeles without going through any one of its 5 airports, and having not been to LA before this trip, I can say that I've managed to avoid what I hear is a hellish experience. Instead, I traveled through Union Station, which is certainly the busiest train terminal I've seen in my various trips to the West Coast over the years.     As you can see, there was construction going on in the station and the waiting area wasn't so comfortable in IMO, but it still beats the concourse at Penn Station (then again, it is a low bar). While waiting for my next train, and also while on the Gold Line platform earlier in my trip, I got some photos of Metrolink trains, seen here. (I didn't actually ride Metrolink on this trip.)   Eventually, my Pacific Surfliner train arrived.   Since it was about 5 in the afternoon, the train was quire crowded. However, when I mentioned in conversation to my seatmate that I was in from out of town and was hoping to get the ocean views as we headed south, she offered to switch seats with me. This also made plugging my laptop in to work on photo editing a bit easier, since the outlets are closer to the window. The trip itself was quite nice, although it was a bit cloudy and as a result the views on the coastal running sections weren't as sensational as I imagine they could have been. The conductor making the announcements on this train was quite a talker, and upon our arrival in San Diego made an airline style farewell announcements ("on behalf of this San Diego based train crew, Los Angeles based service crew, and the thousands of Amtrak employees nationwide, we hope you had a pleasant trip and that we see you again soon...") For those of you who haven't been on the Surfliner equipment, here is what the interior looks like:  And here are photos of the train I took and some others at the Santa Fe Terminal in San Diego.      From there, I walked to my hotel (the only place on this whole adventure I didn't have a free place to stay and wasn't spending the night on an Amtrak train or an airplane). Two days later, my wanderings around town took me back past the Santa Fe Terminal, so I got a few more Surfliner photos, and a nice little surprise when I saw some PV parked in the station as well.     Hopefully I'll post the next part in this series in less time than it took me to post this one. |
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