Wednesday, January 19, 2011

ABC Wednesday: A is for Amtrak

The Oakland Amtrak station is located at one end of Jack London Square.  From here you can catch a train to Sacramento and LA.  This side of the Amtrak train station faces the tracks.  The reflection includes the pedestrian bridge across the tracks.  California is now piloting a TGV to LA via the Central Valley.  Given the questionable financial projections for both funding and ridership, file this notion under wishful thinking.  For more "A" photos, visit ABC Wednesday.

6 comments:

  1. Beautiful sky and building. We love rail travel (York-Paris in 5 hours) and have done a little along the Hudson Valley in NY state - a very pretty ride.

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  2. Such a well-composed photograph, with the lines and curves and reflections and shadow, etc. AmTrak's East Coast lines from Boston to Washington get a lot of riders and still lose money. I would like to hope that this new line will work, but unfortunately I am too much of a realist.

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  3. What an elegant image; I love the clean lines of it. x

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  4. took the train once from San Diego to Anaheim, but never got to the train stations in your area. nice.

    Oh, and I like that antique projector, too.

    ROG, ABC Wednesday team

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  5. This would make a nice entry in Weekend Reflections. You probably considered that, too, didn't you?!
    ;-D

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  6. Funny, we both have stations in recent posts. The thing that strikes me about your station is how CLEAN and shiny it is! Pity about the financial projections - it would be good to have more rail lines.

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