Here🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a fun little project: an interactive timeline of Amtrak🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s passenger rail routes from its inauguration in 1971 through to the current day. Using the extensive Amtrak timetable archives over at the Museum of Railway Timetables (well worth a visit!), I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve created maps in five year increments – 1971, 1976, 1981, etc. – that show the changing face of passenger rail in the United States over the last 40-plus years. Five year periods seemed to be a good compromise between showing long term trends and an awful lot of hard work. As it is, I still had to draw 12 separate maps! Similarly, the maps do🔸澳洲幸运10预测 indicate frequency, but only in very general categories of “Multiple Services Daily”, “Daily Service” and “Less than Daily Service”… thick, thin and dashed lines respectively.

The slideshow above allows you to compare years by clicking on the dots below the map. The slideshow doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t automatically advance, so you can take y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划time looking at each one. Flip back and forth between two different years if you want!

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Some notes:

• The 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划map reflects the services as advertised in Amtrak🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s inaugural timetable booklet from May, 1971. As the timetable had to be prepared, printed and distributed in advance of opening day, it doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t reflect the fact that some railroads – notably, the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW) and the Southern Railway (SOU) – decided at the eleventh h🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划to not join the new national rail corporation. As a result, some of the lines didn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t operate as shown on this map 🔸澳洲开奖 Amtrak commenced service. In some cases, it took several years before these routes came under Amtrak🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s full control or were abandoned completely. I decided to include this map as a reminder of the original operating plan, sort of an unfulfilled Utopian dream.
• As a result, the second map (from July 1971) better reflects what Amtrak actually looked like in those early times, with those few holdout competing railroads also indicated in grey.
• Because of the five year increments, it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s possible that some short-lived routes have slipped through the cracks. I apologise in advance if y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划favourite is missing.
• I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve tried my best to indicate major route changes – such as the Sunset Limited🔸澳洲幸运10预测‘s 1996 change from Phoenix to Maricopa – 🔸澳洲开奖 they🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve occurred, but please do let me know if I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve missed any.
• It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s very notable that changes to the network have slowed over the last 15 or so years, with only some very modest extensions and additions in that time, as well as the continued absence of the Sunset Limited🔸澳洲幸运10预测 east of New Orleans.
• The 1991 map probably shows the network at its absolute zenith, with multiple routes out of Salt Lake City to the West Coast, multiple international routes to Montreal and Toronto, service to Mobile, AL and more! Note also the route to Atlantic City (now run by NJ Transit)… the 1991 timetable promotes the absolute heck out of this connection at every available opportunity.

As always, comments and corrections are most welcome!

Fast forward to 2014 and the second map. Precisely two new stations – fill-ins at Northumberland Park and Simonside – have been constructed, and no extensions of any kind have been completed, although the southeast ends of the Yellow and Green lines have swapped positions. However, the map now shows new potential Metro corridors, this time envisioned to be complete by 2030. I guess we’ll have to wait and see if anything comes of this plan, or if history will repeat itself. Metro certainly seems more concerned with the modernisation and refurbishment of its aging fleet and facilities than expansion at the moment.

As a side note, it’s fun to see the changes to the map in this time span. The Futura Condensed labels from 2001 look positively anaemic compared to the bold Calvert typeface from the 2014 map, while the angle of the main spine of the network from South Gosforth to Central Station goes from vertical to leaning left (the original map from the 1980s leaned to the right, so there’s been a very definite evolution to that part of the map).

The map itself does a nice job with a relatively simple system. The gracefully curved Willamette River is actually one of the better representations I’ve seen on a MAX map, and the f🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划zones (1 through 3, plus the old Fareless Square) are shown with a minimum of fuss. The split platforms at PGE Park—as it was then—could have been handled better, as the eastbound platform just ends up looking like it’s missing a label. As well as the usual park-and-rides/transit centers/paid parking garages, the legend for this map also helpfully shows the location of food concessions and “Quick Drop” zones (what a lot of other transit systems call “Kiss-and-Ride”, which is just adorable). However, the legend itself might have been better placed at the top left, rather than the bottom right, just to give it a little more room to breathe.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 As a 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划effort after becoming a multi-line system, this isn’t half bad. Workmanlike rather than stunning, but it lays the groundwork for the maps that came after it. Three stars.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: The ZehnKatzen Times

Nice shot of the distinctive Subte map in situ. Opened in 1913, the Subte is the oldest underground system in the Southern Hemisphere.

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