The First Train

July 18, 2009 at 8:33 am

There are two of these, actually. About half an hour ago, Mayor Nickels’ train started at Westlake, and Mayor Jim Haggerton of Tukwila’s train started there. The two trains met at Mount Baker station for the opening ceremonies. We’ve got a short clip of Haggerton’s train headed across the Duwamish:

Update: Here’s Dave Ross introducing the mayors at Mount Baker Station. “Seattle has a working light rail system!”

Edit: Apparently, it may be a few minutes before these videos are “processed”.

10 Responses to The First Train

Schroeder says:


Woohoo!

John Niles says:


#ltrailday1 is a tag for Tweets on the Link Light Rail opening. Search for this on Twitter and get a screenful … searching works for Twitter members only.

The Tweets from Sound Transit on this big day for Sound Transit are visible to anyone at http://twitter.com/ST_TravelLight.

John Niles says:


Whoops. A dot was added to the URL in my previous post. Correct is:
http://twitter.com/ST_TravelLight

Editor: fix previous post and scrub this one please.

Jessica says:


Link has arrived!

Boarding at Westlake (thanks to my insistance at an early arrival)

John Niles says:


Another correction:
The live Twitter feed #ltrailday1 can be viewed by anyone at:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ltrailday1

47hasbegun says:


I was at the ceremony at Mt. Baker and on the inaugural southbound three-car train. All I can think is, “What took us so long?”

rex says:


Finally! Is it really happening?

Tim says:


No audio on the videos?

Tim says:


Nevermind, I’m using Remote Desktop and I just remembered I have it set to leave audio at the remote computer.

NADC/Times says:


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