Authorized Personnel Only

This is underneath the Twins Stadium. I took this from the very last seat on the train. By very last, i don't mean the only seat available, i mean it is literally the last seat, looking out the back of the train.

Normally i due my duty of walking up towards the front of the train and filling those cars first, but today i felt a little lazy. I got into the car closest to the lobby. As i got on, i decided to stay on the first floor and headed towards the back of the section. I have found that those seats are the least popular.

The last section of seats that were empty, was just a section of two. They faced a wall but there was a window in the wall, and a window to the side of the seat. As long as there is a window, i didn't really car. As i went to sit down, i noticed that the wall with the window in front of me actually had two more seats on the other side. There was a doorway but no door. I looked for a sign that said restricted or something and there was nothing. So i grabbed my stuff, scooted around the wall and sat at the back end of the train. It was like looking out the back window of a car. The window was a bit high but i could still see out of it. Unfortunately i had to lean really close and almost stand up to take pictures, so i didn't take that many.



This is when we first leave downtown. The bridge leads to 94W.



That funny shape you see just above the bridge, to your left, is the Twins Stadium. For as much crap about being crammed into a space, it was done really well and does not intrude on the environment around it.

The title of this post is Authorized Personnel Only. I thought i was really smart for getting the the seat that i had. The cop came by and checked every person's fare, including mine. The conductor(?) went up and down the aisles counting people, including me. No one said a word to me. I figured it was okay to sit there. There was a door to the right of me that said Authorized Personnel Only. That made sense because it looked like that was a private section, for storage or something.

The next time i rode the train home, i thought i would try sitting in the last car again. Maybe in that very last section if it was open. I got on the train, headed back, and there was a door right where i had walked through to get to the last set of seats. Authorized Personnel Only. I sat in the section right behind it (the one i was going to sit in the first time around). Apparently that door i saw earliers, has a funny hinge that allows it to either close part of a section or the entire section off depending which way it is swung. The conductor came by with a lady and said she could sit in the executive section. He unlocked the door and let her sit back there. So either i took a person's spot, or they forgot to shut the door. I'll chalk it up to, they forgot to shut the door.