The Real Terminator
WeGo
Nashville, Tennessee: not exactly a tropical paradise, a land of piney forests, a land of the great plains, or a foreign country. BUT the trains are cool for the most part, and given the fact I love writing, playing, and harshly critiquing music, my accrued vacation time that was about to expire was spent on a three day expedition to the south.
First operation I'll share is the
M̶u̶s̶i̶c̶ ̶C̶i̶t̶y̶ Star, or WeGo Star as it's been horribly rebranded. Bu hey, at least the name change finally made the railroad repaint their equipment after 15 years of operating. I have no idea how these guys make any money, both on a company- and employee-scale, considering they run two roundtrips in the morning and two in the afternoon rush hour. Combine that with the fact that almost every train consists of only two bilevels, I don't know, must be one of the easiest gigs ever!
The railroad's western terminus is the Riverfront-Downtown station, seen here. The station sits in an urban canyon of sorts, which I absolutely fell in love with the second we pulled up to it. Combine that with the random heavy rain showers that came the evening we decided to look for them, and you have a winning combination para mi.
Underneath the impressively massive Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge, and backdropped by an extremely tiny sliver of downtown Nashville, WeGo Star train 157 departs the city with NRTX 381, an old Amtrak F40PH that still dons it's original Amtrak road number leading the way. Both the sound of the HEP keeping this thing in Run-8, followed by a blast of the beautiful K5LA echoing thru this canyon was way more than enough of a sensory overload for me, in a good way that is!
WeGo
Nashville, Tennessee: not exactly a tropical paradise, a land of piney forests, a land of the great plains, or a foreign country. BUT the trains are cool for the most part, and given the fact I love writing, playing, and harshly critiquing music, my accrued vacation time that was about to expire was spent on a three day expedition to the south.
First operation I'll share is the
M̶u̶s̶i̶c̶ ̶C̶i̶t̶y̶ Star, or WeGo Star as it's been horribly rebranded. Bu hey, at least the name change finally made the railroad repaint their equipment after 15 years of operating. I have no idea how these guys make any money, both on a company- and employee-scale, considering they run two roundtrips in the morning and two in the afternoon rush hour. Combine that with the fact that almost every train consists of only two bilevels, I don't know, must be one of the easiest gigs ever!
The railroad's western terminus is the Riverfront-Downtown station, seen here. The station sits in an urban canyon of sorts, which I absolutely fell in love with the second we pulled up to it. Combine that with the random heavy rain showers that came the evening we decided to look for them, and you have a winning combination para mi.
Underneath the impressively massive Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge, and backdropped by an extremely tiny sliver of downtown Nashville, WeGo Star train 157 departs the city with NRTX 381, an old Amtrak F40PH that still dons it's original Amtrak road number leading the way. Both the sound of the HEP keeping this thing in Run-8, followed by a blast of the beautiful K5LA echoing thru this canyon was way more than enough of a sensory overload for me, in a good way that is!