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The Builder is early and we are on our way! The ticket agent was great and both car attendants were helpful and friendly. Let me see if I can upload a photo of the Whitefish Depot...

Mea culpa. Sorry.

With India (and SE Asia as a whole) growing by most metrics and China, Africa, South America and "the West" experiencing some serious headwinds, I am curious to see how Asia, and the world, develop over the next 20 years. "Slowly, then all of a sudden."?

Route 12, the insiders guide to electrified railways? Maybe. One other thing I did not realize was that after the Milwaukee Road closed their substation, the rural electric decided they needed one there so they built a new, more modern one. Not surprisingly, I noticed the old one, not the newer one.

I drive along US-12, US-89 and MT-294 from Townsend to Harlowton occasionally but I remember the first time I did and noticed a mid-sized electrical power station (abandoned) in the middle of nowhere. It is just west of the Martinsdale Colony if memory serves which is just 40 to 50 miles from...

Tlcooper, I just went back to Kyoto Station to get my tickets for a trip to Kansai International on the 4th and then wandered around the station and parts of the Granvia Hotel. Wow. That is an impressive bit of architecture! I like my little hotel but for just $45 more the Granvia looks very...

Just as an aside, given the sad news from Noto about the older gentleman that perished in yesterday's earthquake, I thought I would point out a safety feature most (?) Japanese hotel rooms are equipped with. Somewhere in the sleeping area (usually) there will be an emergency flashlight to use if...

THAT was a rail experience from start to finish! I checked out of my Tokyo hotel at 11am and walked to the underground shopping mall next to Tokyo Station, which is a city in and of itself. Don't get me started on the bento boxes... Then I used my ticket to enter the station proper and IT WAS A...

I reserved at M's Est, a bit east of the Gran Via. It is small but pretty well reviewed. Gran Via looks nice and VERY convenient to the station. I am off to Japan Rail, I think I will try to book a Nozomi seat for tomorrow. First time on a Shinkasen so I am pretty stoked! I really like Japan...

Thanks, Thom! I will look for the machine later today. I am right next to Tokyo Station so it is on my walking path for today. I arrived here yesterday and I am going to get a subway pass and reserve a JR seat to Kyoto for the 31st just to be on the safe side. New Years Eve has me thinking that...

I arrive at Narita on Dec 28th and my room at the Hotel Intergate near Tokyo Station is only booked through the 31st due to New Years booking the hotel up solid on the 31st. Does anyone have a favorite hotel near Kyoto Station/Japan Rail in Kyoto? Any tips on how to book a seemless JR trip...

I am flying down to JAX/Florida on Tuesday to visit friends in Ponte Vedra for a couple days and then flying to Miami via Chicago later in the week. I checked on the Silver Meteor train tracker (the Palmetto was just too early, I did not want to drag my hosts out of bed that early) and the...

I am glad I am not the only one that ended up next to a hay stack of some sort out on Middle Road! LOL!

I think I have entered too many photos, so I will quit doing that. For a while. LOL!

Still can not find the facade of the station but I did find a shot of the Livingston train yard, albeit at a distance. Plus I think I have a couple photos of what I think is the old Northern Pacific line (now Montana Link, soon to be BNSF, I believe) near Three Forks... Not sure if this...

Livingston has one of the nicest old train stations in Montana. It is the red brick building with the cream colored quoins. Plus it has the museum and the historic Murray Hotel is next door, the room pictured is in the Murray and you can see the station in the window. The hotel supplies each...

I have a tough time with newer tech. Only I could follow a link to Glendive's train station and end up next to a stack of round bails on Middle Road...

14,000 feet is ok if you are sitting. I hiked Thorong LA Pass in Nepal (17,760') and even up to 15,000 feet was ok if you were sitting, though admittedly I had a week of acclimatization. Walking w a pack was another story.

Just to add a Montana bit of trivia, be aware that summers are very short near Glacier Park. We just got our first snowfall on the mountain peaks the other day, it will probably not stick for long, but the next one may. Some roads and hotels will be closing soon. East Glacier is on the dry...

Multiple guesses ahead warning: Public Transit works best where it is ubiquitous, cheap and fast, or so I would guess. Which pretty much rules out buses unless they have a dedicated lane or ground level trams for that matter. What would work best, it seems, would be an underground system with a...