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The Amtrak ''Cascades'' is a passenger train route in the Pacific Northwest, operated by Amtrak in partnership with the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon and the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is named after the Cascade mountain range that the route parallels. The corridor runs from Vancouver, British Columbia south to Seattle, Washington, continuing south via Portland, Oregon to Eugene, Oregon. Two daily trains travel to and from Vancouver, with Seattle or Portland as its starting or ending point; supplemental Thruway Motorcoach service connects travelers from Vancouver to trains heading south from Seattle, as well as providing additional service between Portland and Eugene, and connections to other Amtrak Thruway destinations in Washington and Oregon. The second daily service between Seattle and Vancouver, BC started on August 19, 2009. four trains run daily between Seattle and Portland, with two of those providing service to Eugene.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://amtrakcascades.com/Schedules.htm )〕 ''Cascades'' is Amtrak's eighth-busiest route, and it carries the most passengers of any of the railroad's services outside of the Northeastern U.S. or California. Total ridership for 2011 was over 850,000. During FY2011, the service had a total revenue of $30,025,126, an 8.9% increase over FY2010.〔 Farebox recovery ratio for the train has also increased from 48% in 2008 to 72% in 2010. == History == The Amtrak ''Cascades'' route was originally operated as a joint partnership by the Northern Pacific, Great Northern, and Union Pacific prior to the creation of Amtrak in 1971.〔The Official guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the U.S., Rand McNally & Company, May 1966, The guide shows that the service was operated jointly, some trains using Seattle's King Street Station and the rest Seattle's Union Station〕 In 2013 travel times between Seattle and Portland remained the same as they had been in 1966, with the fastest trains making the journey in 3 hours 30 minutes.〔The Official guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the U.S., Rand McNally & Company, May 1966〕〔Amtrak Winter-Spring Timetable 2013〕 When Amtrak began operations in 1971 there were three Seattle-Portland running and the connection to Vancouver was discontinued. These trains were initially unnamed, but with the advent of Amtrak's first "official" timetable in November 1971, one became the ''Coast Starlight'' (which continues south to Los Angeles), while the other two became the ''Mount Rainier'' and ''Puget Sound''.〔Schafer, Mike, Bob Johnston and Kevin McKinney.''All Aboard Amtrak''. Piscataway, NJ: Railpace Co., 1991〕 1972 brought the return of the Vancouver service, with the inauguration of the ''Pacific International'', operating with a dome car (unusual for short runs).〔Zimmerman, Karl. Amtrak at Milepost 10. Park Forest IL: PTJ Publishing, 1981.〕 Amtrak introduced the Seattle–Salt Lake City, Utah ''Pioneer'' in 1977. The ''Pioneer'' took over one round-trip between Seattle and Portland, arriving in Seattle in the late evening and Portland just before noon. Amtrak eliminated the ''Puget Sound'' altogether, and shifted the ''Mount Rainiers northbound trip to replace it. The corridor grew in 1980 with the State of Oregon financially subsidizing two daily round trips between Portland and Eugene. Named the ''Willamette Valley'', these trains were discontinued in April 1982. This was on the heels of the ''Pacific International's'' discontinuance in September 1981.〔 This left three trains on the Portland-Seattle corridor: the ''Coast Starlight'', the ''Pioneer'' and the ''Mount Rainier''. This situation remained unchanged for the next 12 years. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amtrak Cascades」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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