The author travelling 152 miles per hour on Acela Express First Class. |
Chris rode trains in all 50 states and travelled on every Amtrak route at least twice, as well as all the trains of Canada's VIA Rail and every intercity route in Canada. In Mexico, he rode the Copper Canyon five-and-a-half times
and other special locations.
A few of the milestones achieved: He hit his 100,000th mile on the Ferrocarril Pacifico at Lujan, in the Mexican state of Sonora, 250,000 miles was reached on Amtrak Train 580 near Irvine, California, and when he accumulated
500,000 miles, he was on Amtrak Train 11 at Milepost 256.8 on Union Pacific's Coast Line in California on December 30, 1999. On August 28, 2002, he passed 700,000 miles 14.1 miles west of Albuquerque, New Mexico, then on May 26, 2003,
at MP 178 east of Santa Ana, he passed 750,000 rail miles.
On April 25, 2004, he was on the Southwest Chief and passed 800,000 miles just west of Metrolink's West Corona Station. On February 20, 2005, Chris passed 850,000 miles at Milepost 215.6 on Pacific Surfliner 785 on the San Diego
Subdivision. His 900,000th mile was passed aboard the Southwest Chief, Train 4, on BNSF's Seligman Subdivision at Milepost 369.9 on November 26, 2005. His 950,000th occurred at Milepost 200.9 on Metrolink's San Diego Subdivision on
August 29, 2006. Then, on April 27, 2007, at Milepost 425.5 of BNSF's Marceline Subdivision on the Missouri River Bridge at Sibley, Missouri aboard the Southwest Chief, Chris passed his One Millionth Rail Mile.
On April 7, 2008, as he stepped off the Southwest Chief at the La Plata, Missouri station, he reached his One Millionth Amtrak Mile ridden.
On September 7, 2008, 1,100,000.0 rail miles occurred on Pacific Surfliner 571 passing under Interstate 5 west of Irvine at Milepost 183.2 on Metrolink's San Diego Subdivision. On December 16, 2009, he reached his 2,000,000th
kilometer, as well as his 1,200,000th mile, at Milepost 166.2 on Metrolink's San Diego Subdivision at the Orangethorpe grade crossing in Anaheim. On July 1, 2010, 1,250,000 miles was 2.7 miles west of WB Junction at Milepost 391.4 of
BNSF's Marceline Subdivision in Missouri.
On May 19, 2011 on the Lakeshore Limited, he passed his 1,300,000th rail mile 2.5 miles west of Kirksville, New York on CSX's Mohawk Subdivision, then on July 1, 2012 aboard the Southwest Chief at the crossing of Magnolia Avenue in
the City of Riverside, Chris reached 1,350,000.0 miles. He passed his 1,400,000th rail mile at Milepost 222.7, Oceanside Boulevard in Oceanside, California on November 3, 2014 and on July 1, 2015, he re-completed riding the entire
Amtrak system aboard Train 174 from Norfolk to Washington, DC, when crossing the Norfolk Southern/CSX connection and the mainline switch onto CSX.
On the night of April 7, 2016, Chris passed his 1,450,000 rail mile 1.6 miles north of Elma, Virginia at Milepost 137.2 aboard the Crescent. Then on September 9, 2017, Chris reached 1,500,000 rail miles as he stepped off Pacific
Surfliner 1567 at his home station of Santa Ana, California. He finished the Amtrak system again detraining from Northeast Regional Train 171 in Roanoke, Virginia on July 26, 2018. On October 14, 2019, Chris passed his 1,600,000.0 rail
mile at CP Bake on Metrolink's San Diego Subdivison.
Do you have any rail travel questions? Contact Chris at: chrisguenzler@charter.net
Read some of the comments about my railroad journeys here.
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