Gordon Wallace

Projects, trips, and experiments worth exploring.

A home for the projects I want to share, from long-distance rail travel to browser-based planning tools and transportation data experiments.

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Featured projects

This landing page highlights the work and stories I want front and center, from the rail trip that started the site to newer transit-focused tools and prototypes.

Sunrise over western Ohio seen from the train
Project 01

Crossing the USA by Rail

Notes, photos, and observations from a proof-of-concept trip across the country by train.

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Stylized preview of the hosted train trip planner
Project 02

Train Trip Planner

A hosted browser edition of my Amtrak planning tool for exploring direct routes, connections, and custom stopovers.

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Illustration for the Amtrak Fare Finder project
Project 03

Amtrak Fare Finder

A prototype for finding available Amtrak fares for New York to Chicago by starting with public data sources and falling back to booking-page scraping.

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