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.

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🔸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!

Cameron, as long as you’re talking about the new Salt Lake City map, I thought you should know that Denver has just adopted a new, updated but unfortunately only slightly amended version of their map, which of course was/is nearly as comically awful as Salt Lake’s old map. I wish it were possible to shame them into shape.

澳洲10开官网开奖 says:

Oh dear. 

Denver’s map has never been as utterly bad as Salt Lake City’s previous efforts, but it’s also been curiously unwilling to change and adapt to the massive expansion that is has been undergoing in the last few years. A map style that was fairly compact and usable – if not that well drawn – 🔸澳洲开奖 there were only five light rail lines heading south of the city (October 2011, 2 stars) has become incredibly unwieldy and spread out with the proliferation of new rail lines to all compass points under the FasTracks program. What once somewhat worked clearly no longer does.

The main problem with this map is the insistence on having perfectly circular fare zones with Union Station at the exact centre of the concentric rings. This creates some ridiculous levels of spatial distortion, especially on the new B and G lines to the north and northwest of Union Station. If concentric circles are a requirement, I’d suggest that a centre based on the radius of the loop around the western edge of the city would be a better starting point – it would certainly reduce the distance the B and G lines have to travel before reaching the edge of Zone 1!

I personally find the need to show the R Line’s quick little det🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划off I-225 to the Aurora Metro Center station completely unnecessary in a diagram like this, while downtown is a complete mess with the addition of the second MetroRide shuttle bus down 18th. Not only is the col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划used for it very similar to the Green Line, but it also interferes with the directional arrows on the downtown light rail lines.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating: A design that hasn’t moved with the times or the rapid expansion of Denver’s rail network, this map seems to be a slave to the decision to force the route lines (arguably the most important information) to conform to its concentric zone rings (secondary information) – not a great design choice. Getting worse, unfortunately. One-and-a-half stars.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: RTD website – link no longer active