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Oh hello! I just watched two of your Portland related videos. If you are too humble for self-promotion, I will do it for you!

I also like The City Nerd at times: He mostly talks about urbanism and so rail isn't the focus, but this is a video that is rail focused. He is kind of grumpy, and he also is mostly theoretical, a lot of lists and charts, but interesting information.

I actually only learned about him when Miles made a reference to him in a song.

This channel is kind of at the opposite end of the spectrum: Grounded Life Travel, which is mostly about more comfortable long distance train travel, mostly Amtrak, but also some VIA Rail videos. This is a pretty representative video, showing a nice trip along the Sunset Limited:

The first channel I want to share is Miles in Transit, because it is what made me start this thread. Specifically, the "Great Race" videos, where he and other teams raced from Boston to New York City using different modes of transportation: Amtrak, long distance buses, and airlines. Miles is...

First off, I am not quite sure where to put this thread, and it might be moved. In the past few years, train and transit YouTube has become a popular niche, and there are countless videos of people sharing their personal travels, as well as history and theory behind rail and other transport. In...

The first part of this is one of those many game theory type problems that come up with transit. Because for the tourist businesses on the islands, they obviously want people in their vehicles so they can visit their businesses, especially bed and breakfasts and resorts that are some miles away...

One other relevant thing to throw in about my Puget Sound trip. I am curious about why the railroads were built in the area. It seems like they were built for a variety of reasons, including for resource extraction, for both timber and mining. They are apparently still used for these purposes...

This is my final video from my five day trip, showing my trip back on the Amtrak Cascades from Mount Vernon to Albany: After travelling for five days, my energy level was lower, and this trip is a lot of raw footage without much commentary. Maybe not interesting to everyone, but if you want a...

I think they were still open, but since I was travelling on Memorial Day, they weren't open when I was there. In general, it seems that most facilities in long distant transit have recovered, and in fact, are quite busy!

Yep! The connections are there, but they are all complicated. If I had known about the airporter service, I might have done a different trip. But staying in Mount Vernon worked out in the long run, because I got to see Bellingham more easily. But I could have taken an Airporter to Anacortes, and...

So while seeing Mount Vernon and Bellingham was nice, the main reason I planned this trip was to see the San Juan Islands, an archipelago of unbridged islands in Washington State. (Technically speaking, it isn't in the Puget Sound, but for practical purposes, it is). The San Juan Islands are...

This is more fun, and a lot more directly Amtrak related! Funny story: when I originally planned the trip, it was for two complete days...and then I realized that Monday the 29th was Memorial Day, and that I couldn't get where I wanted to go on that day. So I extended the trip one day, and used...

This video is a short addendum to the Mount Vernon video: I go to Burlington, a city that is just north of Mount Vernon, across the Skagit River. It was not very fun. Although I am obviously a person who likes transit and walking, unlike some people, I don't get snotty that cities usually have...

It does make a lot more sense to focus on the Portland to Seattle section, since that obviously has a lot more people. And, existing infrastructure. I did note the double tracking in my first video, which is why, unlike the Willamette Valley section, we didn't have to stop to let anyone pass...

Well, it might be an interesting place to stay. There is some pleasant stuff downtown. But as this and some following videos will show, it is not something specifically important to stop and see---especially since there is other stuff in the area that is probably more interesting. Which I will...

This video is from Day 2 of my trip to Mount Vernon, and my first complete visit there: As I mention in this video, I was actually born in Mount Vernon! But have spent virtually no time there, so it was still a "new" place for me. Since it was a new place, I spend a lot of time walking around...

I just finished a five day, four night long trip, and I have a lot to talk about! I will be editing and posting videos for each day, probably about once a day. This is my video showing my trip northward, on May 27th. I took a city bus from Corvallis to Albany, took an Oregon POINT/Amtrak...

I am kind of wondering about the economics of that! Depending on the route, it would be 120 miles between Willits and Fortuna...with no intermediate stops, and at the time, Eureka, Fortuna and Willits must have been smaller than they are now. So given the distance, roughness of terrain, and...

"Fish" isn't actually my real last name. I actually started my YouTube channel during the pandemic years, and originally it was just really short trips by bicycle. For my first year a video would be successful if it got 20 views. I haven't tried to "brand" it, although it might be more...