| Site is down for
now... sorry |
| It is with much regret that I have to
suspend work on this site and (for the most part) take it down. I'd rather
have the correct information online, however to maintain this site would
demand too much time out of an all ready busy schedule. I'm sorry that I
have to do this. I have backed up the content in case I decide to give it
another go in the (hopefully less hectic) future, but it will no longer be
available on line.
Also, truncated versions of the popular SkyTrain, MAX light rail, and Portland
Streetcar tours, along with photos of the Portland Vintage Trolley and
Astoria Trolley, are available on David Pirrman's NYC Subway Pages' World
Transit Systems section. The links are here:
Vancouver, BC:
http://world.nycsubway.org/canada/vancouver/
Portland, Oregon:
http://world.nycsubway.org/us/portland
I would like to thank everyone who has contributed and viewed this site.
Without all the help and interest, this site would not have been as
successful.
Thanks for viewing and please enjoy the following excellent sources for
more transit-related information.
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| Official Sites-National Rail |
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Amtrak -US national passenger railway company. Get schedules, book tickets, and find interesting Amtrak facts.
www.amtrak.com |
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ViaRail Canada -Canadian national railway carrier. Service network provides cross-country passenger rail service.
www.viarail.ca |
| Official Sites-Oregon (top of page) |
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TriMet-
Portland, Oregon's regional transit authority. Operates and owns MAX
lightrail and Portland's bus system. Site now features Transit
Trackers, allowing you to see exactly how far away certain buses are
from your stop!
www.trimet.org |
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Washington County Commuter Rail- Information from Washington
County about the Wilsonville-Beaverton Commuter Rail Project.
www.co.washington.or.us/deptmts/lut/commrail/train.htm |
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Portland Streetcar-Portland's year-old Streetcar System. Site includes information and a Streetcar Tracking system provided by NextBus
www.portlandstreetcar.org |
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Metro: Transportation Planning-Portland
Metro Area Regional Government's transportation planning page. Includes
a link to the South Corridor study and other corridor studies.
http://www.metro-region.org/pssp.cfm?ProgServID=2 |
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SMART- South Metro Area Transit provides free bus service in Wilsonville, Oregon.
Also runs routes connecting to TriMet in Portland and Cherriots in Salem.
www.ridesmart.com |
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Cherriots- Salem
Area Transit. Operates bus service in Oregon's capital city. Currently
considering a downtown trolley.
http://www.cherriots.com/ |
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Astoria Riverfront Trolley- Restored 1913-vintage trolley operating on Astoria's Waterfront. Facts and history of this vehicle,
how to get involved with the trolley, and even a movie are available here.
http://www.old300.org |
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Port of Tillamook Bay-Coast Explorer- An tourist excursion train operated by the Port of Tillamook Bay.
www.potb.org/oregoncoastexplorer.htm |
| Official Sites-Washington State (top of page) |
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King County Metro-
King County Metro bus system. Operates electric hybrid buses, the
historic Waterfront Trolley, and the downtown Metro Tunnel in Seattle.
http://transit.metrokc.gov/ |
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Sound Transit-Seattle's
commuter transit system. Provides commuter rail and express bus service
throughout the Puget Sound area. Sound Transit is also in charge of
building light rail systems in Tacoma and Seattle.
www.soundtransit.org |
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Pierce Transit- Provides bus service in Tacoma and Pierce County,
Washington.
www.ptbus.pierce.wa.us/ |
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Community Transit- Serves Snohomish County, WA and runs express bus
service to Seattle.
www.commtrans.org/ |
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Everett Transit-
City-wide bus service run by the City of Everett, WA
www.everettwa.org/transit/ |
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Issaquah Valley
Trolley- Vintage Trolley project in Issaquah near Seattle. The
project has just received 2 old trolleys from San Francisco and are working
to restore them.
http://issaquahhistory.org/trolley/ |
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Elevated Transit Company-An official Seattle city-sponsored organization, committed to extending the Seattle Center monorail into a city-wide system.
www.elevated.org |
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Friends of the Monorail- Pro-monorail advocacy group in Seattle.
www.monorail.org |
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The Freeway Monorail -Official site of a group promoting the building of a monorail route on Interstate 5 in Seattle.
www.freewaymonorail.org |
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Washington State Ferries-Provides passenger and auto links across Puget Sound and Victoria, BC, Canada.
www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries/index.cfm |
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C-Tran-Provides Bus service in Clark County and Vancouver, Washington.
www.c-trans.com |
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I-5 Partnership Commission-A
joint Oregon/Washington I-5 congestion solutions task force. Focuses on
north-south tranportation problems between Portland, OR and Vancouver,
WA.
www.i-5partnership.com |
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Spokane Transit Authority- Site of the Bus service provider for Spokane, with schedules and maps.
www.spokanetransit.com |
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Spokane Regional Light Rail-News and information about the effort to build a light rail line in Spokane.
www.spokanelightrail.com |
| Official Sites-British Columbia (top of page) |
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TransLink BC -Provides transit service in the Greater Vancouver Metro Area. Operates and owns the SkyTrain and bus lines.
www.translink.bc.ca |
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Rapid Transit BC-SkyTrain
Millennium Line -Official site of the new SkyTrain Millennium Line extension. Includes a tour of the new line, along with construction news.
www.rapidtransit.bc.ca |
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Richmond-Airport-Vancouver Rapid Transit- Official site of the next
rapid project in Vancouver: a line south from downtown to Richmond and
Vancouver International Airport.
http://www.ravprapidtransit.com/ |
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City of Vancouver: Skytrain Expansion -Offers information about future SkyTrain extensions and other rapid-transit issues.
www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/tran |
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Coast Mountain Bus Company -A TransLink BC subsidiary which operates the SeaBus ferry and buses in North Vancouver.
www.coastmountainbus.com |
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BC Ferries -Provides Auto and passenger service between Mainland BC and Vancouver Island. Also serves the coastline of BC.
www.bcferries.com |
| Official Sites-Transit Advocate Groups (top of page) |
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The Monorail Society -Pro-monorail transit website. Find and news information about monorails world-wide.
www.monorails.org |
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Light Rail Now! -Multi-city pro-light campaign site. Find news and information about where new systems may be built.
www.lightrailnow.org |
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Light Rail Transit Association -Worldwide transit advocacy group based in Great Britain. Publishes the Tramways and urban Transit magazine. Great pics, information, and news about worldwide systems, especially European systems.
www.lrta.org |
| Unofficial Sites (top of page) |
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TrainWeb -Trains on the web! Train-related web hosting service and webring with numerous links to other unofficial railfan sites.
www.trainweb.com |
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Portland Vintage Trolleys- Portland's Vintage Trolley System online!
This site offers information about Portland Trolleys past and present.
Includes a growing section of historic route maps, rolling stock photos, and
a tour of the modern vintage trolley routes.
http://vintagetrolleys.com/ |
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North American Light Rail Central -A comprehensive site featuring the
light rail systems of North America. This site has a very good news section and technical specifications on many of the
light rail cars in use in North America.
www.lightrail.com |
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Kavanagh Transit Systems
-An excellent site with thousands of photos of rail transit systems
worldwide! Very good photos of the New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo
systems.
www.ktransit.com |
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Busdude's Page O'Buses-
Buses from the Northwest and beyond. If a NW transit agency has a type of
bus (or uses it), the Bus Dude's got a profile of it!
http://www.busdude.com |
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Dave's Bus Pics-
Another great bus fan site, currently undergoing a redesign, but trust me,
Dave's got some great stuff that's going on there! Some of his photos are
hard-to-find! The TriMEt section is a must-see for fans of vintage TriMet.
http://davesbuspix.etspe.ca |
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New York City Subway Resources -A site concerning mostly the New York Subway, including great sections on North American and world-wide systems.
www.nycsubway.org |
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Improving MAX-
Aaron Johnson and others present their opinions about how Portland's MAX
system should work in the future. Full plans and maps on MAX expansion!
Submit your own vision of Portland's transit future!
http://userfs.cec.wustl.edu/~adj1/max/ |
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Subways.net
-A subways-related site, with an extensive Dallas DART light rail
subsite. Includes a Dallas DART station tour and a state-by-state and
world-wide list of urban railway systems.
www.subways.net |
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Chicago Transit and Railfan
-A look rail systems and transit in Chicago, the MidWest, and beyond.
Includes great history sections of major transit systems in each state.
http://hometown.aol.com/chirailfan/index.html |
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Transit Rider- A well-designed site covering transit systems in
California. Denver, Las Vegas, and Tijuana transit are also covered here.
http://www.transitrider.com |
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Robert
Reynold's Subway Page- Maps of worldwide subways and tons of links to official and other transit sources.
http://www.reed.edu/~reyn/transport.html |
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Jody's NW
Railfan Experience- An ew site combining the Port of Tillamook Bay
Railfan, Washington Park Zoo Railfan Guides as well as several other new
exiting features.
http://www.geocities.com/pacificcoastshay/ |
