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Amtrak Routes Reimagined As A Subway Map
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Jen Chung
Published Apr 16, 2015
Modified Apr 16, 2015
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Graphic designer Cameron Booth has created a new version of his "Amtrak as Subway Map," thanks to the (possible?) demise of the Hoosier State line between Indianapolis and Chicago. And it's pretty fun!
His initial design was created in 2010, and while he's been updating it with station updates, Booth writes, "[A] change of this magnitude gives me the chance to take a completely fresh look at this project and rework everything from scratch, instead of just tweaking the old diagram again. Let’s face it - I’ve learned a lot of new skills and tricks in the intervening years!"
One thing that had begun to bother me about the previous version was the sheer amount of routes that had to be shown along the Northeast Corridor. There are eleven separate services heading south out of New York Penn Station, and showing them all side by side both took up a lot of space and made the stopping patterns of those services difficult to discern. I hit upon the idea of overlaying services that had identical stopping patterns on top of each other, using multiplied transparency effects to layer the colours up on top of each other.
Via Cameron Booth
The Northeast Corridor, which includes the Acela Express, is the most profitable for Amtrak. Basically everything else operates at a loss.
[Via Laughing Squid]
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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