08 Monday Jul 2013
Posted in Canada, photography, random, trains, Travel
26 Wednesday Jun 2013
Posted in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, flood, photography, photowalking, trains, transit, urban
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alberta, C-Train, calgary, canada, flood, flooding, LRT, photowalk, rail, railroad, railway, trains, transit, urban
Calgary Transit workers remove debris from the LRT tunnel north of Victoria Park/Stampede station that was submerged to the ceiling during the height of the flooding.
Calgary Transit’s downtown infrastructure took it on the chin during the record flooding over the last week.
Here are some photos I snapped of the damage and of the work being done to get things moving again.
More work done near Victoria Park/Stampede station. And yes, those tracks are really suspended in mid-air!
Floodwaters carried away the ballast beneath the platform at Victoria Park/Stampede station.
Crews work to restore the Cemetery Hill tunnel, above and next two images.
Buses put into service as a C-Train shuttle roam on a very dusty Macleod Trail on June 25.
10 Monday Jun 2013
Posted in art, New York, photography, photowalking, random, trains, transit, Travel, urban
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art, ceramics, New York, NYC, photography, photowalk, random, station, subway, train, trains, transit, Travel, urban
A follow-up to yesterday’s photo: This is at 66 St. Subway station in New York. Lots of beautiful ceramic art adorn the station walls — not just at that station but throughout all the underground parts of the network.
06 Thursday Jun 2013
Posted in iPhone, photography, photowalking, Portland, random, trains, Travel, urban
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Amtrak, Hipstamatic, iPhoneography, Oregon, photography, Portland, rail, railroad, railway, random, train, trains, Travel, urban
From my trip there a few months ago … Lining up at Portland Union Station for an Amtrak train to Seattle.
25 Saturday May 2013
Posted in Alberta, Canada, photography, trains, Travel
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alberta, canada, Jasper, photography, rail, railroad, railway, rocky mountains, station, tourism, train, trains, Travel, Via Rail
Via Rail won’t let dirty windows ruin a Rocky Mountain vista. Here are some employees hard at work cleaning the windows of Toronto-Vancouver train “The Canadian” during a station stop in Jasper, Alberta.
19 Sunday May 2013
Posted in Canada, photography, random, trains, Travel
15 Wednesday May 2013
Posted in Apple, architecture, British Columbia, Canada, fun, iPhone, photography, photowalking, random, technology, trains, transit, Travel, urban, Vancouver
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b.c., british columbia, canada, Canadian Pacific, history, iPhone, iPhoneography, panorama, photography, photowalk, rail, railroad, railway, random, roundhouse, train, trains, Travel, urban, vancouver, Yaletown
This is the former Canadian Pacific roundhouse in Vancouver’s Yaletown district, captured with a sweep of my iPhone’s camera in “panorama” mode.
It was really interesting to try this, because the roundhouse is built in the shape of an arc … so if you’re standing at the centrepoint of the arc and you swivel to capture the panorama, the main subject doesn’t look very distorted at all, while everything else does.
10 Friday May 2013
Posted in British Columbia, Canada, photography, random, trains, Travel
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Along the Thompson River valley in B.C. … spotted from Via Rail’s Toronto-Vancouver transcontinental train, “The Canadian”.
05 Sunday May 2013
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dining car, food, halifax, montreal, Ocean, rail, railroad, railway, train, trains, Travel, Via Rail
To my mind, one of the neat things about long-distance trains is being able to eat in a dining car or café car of some kind.
Above is the type of dining car used aboard Via Rail’s Halifax-Montreal train, “The Ocean”.
Below is a similar scene, captured nine years ago, in a different, older type of dining car that was once regularly used on this train.
Difference between the two: The newer cars don’t have a full kitchen, just a galley where they can prepare simple dishes and heat catered gourmet meals.
Happily, the meals are still served using real dinnerware.
EDIT: I should add that Via Rail’s Vancouver-Toronto western transcontinental, “The Canadian”, still uses those old-style dining cars. The decor has been updated since I took the photo below.
03 Friday May 2013
Posted in Canada, photography, random, trains, Travel
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alberta, canada, Jasper, national park, park, photography, rail, railroad, railway, rocky mountains, skyline, train, trains, Travel, Via Rail
Views such as this is why people like to hang out in the dome-observation Skyline and Park cars aboard Via Rail’s The Canadian. Got this image last month as the train made its way westward toward the town of Jasper.
Ricky Leong 