Diary of a rail fan in Kansai,Japan(Ver.2)

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Travel Diary on August 12, 2024

We walked to Eastwick Station after eating breakfast.

SEPTA Silverliner V in Eastwick Station, Philadelphia, PA, US /August 12, 2024
At Eastwick

Then, we boarded SEPTA train to 30th Street Station.

We boarded NE regional Train to Washington DC Union Station.


Boarding from Track 7


Station Nameplate does not mention neighboring station, but usual terminus.


Stopped at BWI Station.


We arrived at Washington Union


Washington Union Station has many shopping stores. It's rare in the US except for New York.

RATP(DC Streetcar) Škoda 10 T series in Union Station, Washington DC, US /August 12, 2024
While my daughter is in bathroom, I took a picture of DC streetcar.

We boarded DC Metro to Gallery Pl-Chinatown

Chinatown


Translation of Walgreen is ambiguous. 藥房 on the image means "Pharmacy"


We ate lunch at KURA revolving Sushi restaurant


From Chinatown, we headed for White House on foot.

White House in Washington DC, US /August 12, 2024
White House


Washington Monument

We entered Smithsonian National Museum of American History

Transition from train commuting to car commuting was explained

CTA Map in Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington DC, US /August 12, 2024
CTA Map long time ago is displayed

We walked to Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Mammoth


African religious history is also explained at the museum.


The sanitizer which might have been used during Covid in front of souvenir shop seems to be unused for a long time. It became eerie..

We went back to Union Station by DC Metro

We boarded train from Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter Station and changed trains at Gallery Pl-Chinatown Station

We arrived at Union Station.

Advertisement of Amtrak


Our train (NE Regional for Springfield) was delayed


But we were able to board soon.

Washington Metro 7000 series in New Carrollton station, PG County, MD, US /August 12, 2024
At New Carrollton


Platform was under construction around Baltimore.


Our train is overtaking MARC Train


This is Elkton Station, which is unused now. It was used from 1837 to 1963? and from 1978 to 1983. In the future, if MARC is extended to Newark, this station will be used again.

After arriving at 30th St Station in Philadelphia, we changed trains to streetcar.

We boarded this one.

Unfortunately, we noticed that we boarded wrong train. So, we returned at 19th St and alighted train at 36th St.
We ate dinner at nearby Sang Kee Noodle House.

This is what we ate


This one is also what we ate


Entrance of the restaurant


We boarded streetcar again and changed to bus at Elmwood Av & 61st St

The bus took us to the hotel.