What I have ridden over the years...

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Matt over at the Track Twenty-Nine blog showed a listing of the rail systems he has ridden over the years in his posting

Making a List, Checking it Twice

and I thought it would be interesting to see how many I have ridden in comparison. While I have not traveled on as many systems as he has, I know have a challenge to try to ride more of the systems around the country.

First I will do something different from Matt and show the Amtrak trains I have ridden over the years:

Coast Starlight: Both directions twice plus multiple times on the California Section
San Joaquin's: Multiple times except Sacramento-Stockten which I have done only once in one direction
San Diegans (now Surfliners): Multiple Times
Southwest Chief: Los Angeles to Flagstaff Round Trip
San Francisco Zephyr: One way from Denver to Sacramento
California Zephyr: One Roundtrip from Salt Lake City to Denver and one way trips from Denver to Salt Lake City and Salt Lake City to Reno
Desert Wind: Two one way trips from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City and multiple trips on the segment from Los Angeles to San Bernardino.
Pioneer: One way trip from Salt Lake City to Portland
Empire Builder: Two one way trips from Portland to Spokane and both directions for Seattle to Spokane
Cascades: Multiple Trips
Sunset Limited: One way trip from Alhambra to Phoenix
Spirit of California: Several Times

As you can see all of my train riding has been on the west coast but I hope to be taking more trips in the future. I have not counted the several special trains I have been on over the years.

Now on to transit systems:

Heavy Rail:

1. San Francisco Bay Area - BART (multiple times over the years)
2. Washington DC - Metro(1980)
   
3. New York- Subway (1980)
4. Los Angeles - Metro Rail (several times)
   
5. Miami - MetroRail (2007)
   
6. Atlanta - Marta (not ridden yet)
   
7. Boston - "T" (not ridden yet)
8. Chicago - "L" (not ridden yet)
   
9. Baltimore - Metro Subway (not ridden yet)
   
10. Philadelphia - SEPTA (not ridden yet)
    
11. Philadelphia - PATCO (not ridden yet)
    
12. New York/New Jersey - PATH (not ridden yet)
    

Light Rail Lines

1. San Francisco - Muni (multiple times)
   
2. San Diego - Trolley (multiple times)
   
3. Portland - MAX (multiple times)
4. Los Angeles - Metro (multiple times)
   
5. Sacramento - Light Rail (1999)
6. Salt Lake City - TRAX (multiple times)
7. Denver - The Ride (2006)
8. Seattle - Central Line (October 2010)
   
9. Pittsburgh - "T" (not ridden yet)
   
10. Boston- "T" (not ridden yet)
11. Dallas - DART (not ridden yet)
    
12. Baltimore - Light Rail (not ridden yet)
    
13. Philadelphia - Light Rail (not ridden yet)
    
14. Camden - River Line (not ridden yet)
    
15. Newark - NJ Transit (not ridden yet)
    
16. San Jose - VTA (not ridden yet)
    
17. Minneapolis - Light Rail (not ridden yet)
    
18. Charlotte - Lynx (not ridden yet-did not exist when I lived in Charlotte)
    
19. Jersey City - Hudson/Bergen Line (not ridden yet)
    
20. Oceanside - Sprinter (not ridden yet)
    
21. Buffalo - Metrorail (not ridden yet)
    
22. Cleveland - Light Rail (not ridden yet)
    
23. Houston - MetroRail (not ridden yet)
    
24. Phoenix - Valley Metro (not ridden yet)
    
25. St. Louis - Metrolink (not ridden yet)
    
26. Norfolk - Tide (opening 2011)

Commuter Rail:

1. San Francisco - Caltrain (multiple times)
   
2. Los Angeles - Metrolink (multiple times)
   
3. Miami - Tri-Rail (2007)
   
4. Salt Lake City - Front Runner (multiple times)
   
5. Portland - WES (2010)
6. Washington DC - MARC (not ridden yet)
   
7. Dallas - Trinity Railway Express (not ridden yet)
   
8. Chicago - Metra (not ridden yet)
   
9. Philadelphia - SEPTA (not ridden yet)
   
10. Washington DC - VRE (not ridden yet)
    
11. New Jersey - New Jersey Transit (not ridden yet)
    
12. San Jose - ACE (not ridden yet)
    
13. Nashville - Music City Star (not ridden yet)
    
14. New York - Metro North (not ridden yet)
    
15. New York - Long Island Railroad (not ridden yet)
    
16. New Haven - Shore Line East (not ridden yet)
    
17. Boston - MBTA (not ridden yet)
    
18. San Diego - Coaster (not ridden yet)
    
19. Seattle - Sounder (not ridden yet-although have traveled both routes on Amtrak)
    
20. Chicago - South Shore (not ridden yet)
    
21. Austin - Capital Metro (not ridden yet)
    
22. Minneapolis - North Star (not ridden yet)
    
23. Albuquerque - Railrunner (not ridden yet)
    
24. Dallas - A Train (opening 2011)

AGT/Miscellaneous

1. Seattle - Seattle Monorail (1999)
   
2. Las Vegas - Monorail (2005)
   
3. Miami - Metromover (2007)
   
4. New York - JFK Airtrain (not ridden yet)
   
5. Morgantown - WVU PRT (not ridden yet)
   
6. Detroit - People mover (not ridden yet)
   
7. Las Colinas (Dallas) - PRT (not ridden yet)
   
8. Jacksonville - Skyway (not ridden yet)
9. Newark - Airtrain (not ridden yet)

Streetcars:

Streetcars are noted as being a heritage line, modern streetcar or original streetcar line. I have ridden all the modern lines that are currently open but have not ridden none of the heritage or original lines.

1. San Francisco - Cable Cars (multiple times)
   
2. Portland - Portland Streetcar (multiple times)
   
3. Tacoma - Link (2004)
4. Seattle - Seattle Streetcar (October 2010)
   
5. Dallas - McKinney Ave Trolley heritage line (not yet ridden)
   
6. San Francisco - F Line (not yet ridden formal F-line but have ridden most of the route)
   
7. Charlotte - Charlotte Trolley heritage line (not yet ridden)
   
8. Kenosha - Kenosha Streetcar heritage line (not yet ridden)
   
9. Little Rock - River Rail Streetcar heritage line (not yet ridden)
   
10. Memphis - MATA Trolley heritage line (not yet ridden)
    
11. New Orleans - original streetcars (not yet ridden)
    
12. Philadelphia - Girard Line original (not yet ridden)
    
13. Savannah - River Street Streetcar original (not yet ridden)
    
14. Tampa - TECO heritage line (not yet ridden)
    

Here is also a listing of the transit bus companies I have ridden over the years:

1. Los Angeles - RTD/Metro
   
2. San Francisco - San Francisco Muni
3. Spokane - Spokane Transit Authority
   
4. Salt Lake City - Utah Transit Authority
5. Seattle - King County Metro and Sound Transit
6. Portland - Tri-Met
   

As you can see I still have a long way to go to ride transit just around the United States much less around the rest of the world.