Name That Station!

[AmtrakBlue]

BWI?

 

[Ryan]

That was fast!

Yep. I was hoping that the parking garage would look like a station building and throw people off.

 

[AmtrakBlue]

Actually being surrounded by trees was my first clue. Especially since I saw some deer run across the tracks just in front of an accelerating Acela.

I may have a pic to post, give me a bit of time.

 

[AmtrakBlue]

 

[Ryan]

I don't see any trains or tracks.

 

[AmtrakBlue]

Cause i'se on the train & the tracks are below me (and on the other side of the train).

 

[AG1]

The parking garage.

 

[AmtrakBlue]

This was taken from the train on my recent trip.

 

[FreeskierInVT]

Mystic, CT?

 

[AmtrakBlue]

Mystic, CT?

Close

 

[AG1]

I like how you were able to avoid the clutter that is at this location.

 

[Notelvis]

How about that? I was a regular passenger on the UM shuttle 1985-88, and then came back regularly until spring of 1994, when I finally finished my Ph.D. So we might have met on that bus. I was always impressed as to how well-trained the student drivers were. You, your colleagues, and that shuttle made my academic career at College Park possible.

How ironic is this!?!?!?!!!!?

Thank you for your kind words. All but three of Shuttle's 140 or so employees were students and we took a great deal of pride in the fact that we were well-trained (by students) and that many of our passengers were complimentary of the job we were doing. Sounds like we were there at the same time as I also graduated in May 1994.

Those three employees who were not students were members of the University staff. They included the Executive Director, her Administrative Assistant, and the Master Mechanic in the garage. Everyone else...... drivers, dispatchers, trainers, mechanics were UMCP students. It was a great place to be in a simpler time when my life consisted of sleep, eat, drive, go to class, study, drive, eat, and repeat.

I most often drove New Carrollton as that was my favorite route but I also pulled regular shifts on the Silver Spring, Queens Chapel, and College Park Metro Station routes as well. Going off-topic for a minute, here is a photo of myself at the Stamp Student Union in Early 1994. I'm about to climb aboard that bus behind me and spend another three hours driving my favorite New Carrollton Metro Station Route.

 

[Notelvis]

Back to 'name that station' -

Would this be New London, CT then if it is close to Mystic?

 

[AmtrakBlue]

Back to 'name that station' -

Would this be New London, CT then if it is close to Mystic?

Yes!

 

[Notelvis]

OK...... let's try this one - Active and staffed station. Anybody recognize it?

 

[amtkstn]

Fayetteville NC. An old classic ACL station. Get off there to visit a cousin that lives near Wilmington.

 

[Shanghai]

Thanks for posting the FAY photo. I will get off #98 at that station next week.

 

[Notelvis]

Fayetteville is correct.

Booked Amtrak transportation for my honeymoon at this station in 1998.

 

[Shanghai]

We have been inactive for nearly two weeks, so I will post this to photo to restart.

Who can name this famous, active Amtrak Station??

 

[Bob Dylan]

Birmingham?

 

[amtkstn]

OKC-Santa Fe

 

[Shanghai]

Yes, Oklahoma City!!

 

[Lakeshore]

It's been a week, so I'll throw one out there to restart it.

 

[rusty spike]

Is that SNA (Santa Ana CA)?

 

[Lakeshore]

Yes it is, our view from the train.