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25-01-17 PHOTOS: Classic Acelas and Boston Red Line Stock
My annual winter Boston trip has always involved the challenge of convincing my more normal friends to take a round trip along the full length of the NEC. In the 2010's going overnight on Train 66 was...
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25-01-31 PHOTOS: Post Road Branch
For my 2025 visit to New York Capital Region I turned my attention south of the city to Amtrak's Post Road Branch and the former Conrail Boston Line to revisit some infrastructure I had not kept up on...
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25-02-08 PHOTOS: New Cannan
One of those services that is easy to overlook is the Metro-North New Canaan Branch which runs between Stamford and the small town of New Canaan. Included in the New Haven's suburban electrification...
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25-02-14 PHOTOS: Philly Special
On February 9th, 2025, the Philadelphia Eagles smothered Patrick Mahomes, former Eagles coach Andy Reid and the rest of the Kansas City Chefs in Super Bowl LIX, giving the team its second Super Bowl...
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25-03-09 PHOTOS: CAPITOL
Like the last Saturday in October, the Harrisburg NRHS Chapter's annual train show now motivates me to make the drive up I-83 as it is perhaps the one reliable date when the old PRR Power Dispatch...
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25-03-22 PHOTOS: Guilford Autos
With the Vermonter route now completely re-signaled the next chapter in my big New Englande adventure is pivoting to the former Boston and Main Western Route Main Line which is currently under...
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25-03-23 PHOTOS: Shirley (You Can't Be Serious)
The last time I went to Lowell, MA was during the height of COVID and I only had enough time to walk the length of BY interlocking where the MBTA Lowell line briefly merges with the old Guilford Rail...
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25-04-06 PHOTOS: Franklin Square
Philadelphia has had an on again, off again, on again, off again, on again, off again, on again relationship with transit access to Franklin Square. Opened as part of the 1936 Bridge Line between...
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25-04-10 PHOTOS: Dallas Streetcar
Spring means that it is once again time for my annual trip to Dallas and after my failed attempt to use the Denton A-Train in 2024, I set a much more modest goal of riding the Dallas Streetcar between...
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25-05-07 PHOTOS: Half Crescent
When presented with the need to travel to Atlanta with in May of 2025 I saw an opportunity to introduce a non-railfan fried to traveling via sleeping car on Amtrak's southbound Crescent Train 19. I am...
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25-05-09 PHOTOS: MARTA East-West
It's easy to forget that MARTA is a thing that exists. The last large heavy rail system to be stood up in North America, MARTA takes after the DC Metro with a bit more transit mojo. For my first ever...
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25-05-24 PHOTOS: Holly Hill
One of my perennial signaling missions has been trips to tidewater Virginia to get photos of legacy Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac signals that has so far survived CSX re-signaling efforts. The...
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25-05-31 PHOTOS: RUTHBY
In 1997 SEPTA worked with DART First State to extend R2 Regional Rail service from Wilmington to Newark, DE. The project had an additional infrastructure component that constructed a new infill station...
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25-06-14 PHOTOS: Norwalk Nights
In 2025 a friend in southern New Hampshire I had stayed with during the HART tower trip back in October 2024 informed me that they would be soon be moving back to Ohio. Although I had largely completed...
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25-06-20 PHOTOS: DL&W Pocono Towers
Closed railroad interlocking towers have a lot in common with the Three Little Pigs nursery rhyme. If the ones made of wood aren't burned down by vagrants, it doesn't take much for the railroads to...
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25-06-21 PHOTOS: Fire Up Searchlights
I have a confession to make, I'm not a steam enthusiast in the way most railfans are steam enthusiasts. For steam people if something goes "chug chug", its an excuse to drive at unsafe speeds and elbow...
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25-07-03 PHOTOS: 52 Allentown
Pittsburgh's light rail system is descended from PCC-based streetcar lines running south of the city that had the good fortune to have both their own rights of way and the use of a dedicated tunnel...
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25-07-15 PHOTOS: Jessup Pickup
MARC's Jessup Station is infamous for its low ridership with, on average, 1 rider per day. Located on the Camden Line, the station was never upgraded with additional parking like the neighboring Savage...
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25-08-09 PHOTOS: One For the Road
In August of 2025 there was a lot of change afoot in the northeast from new Acelas, to new infrastructure to new NYCT Subway rolling stock. An invitation to visit the International Photography Museum...
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25-08-16 PHOTOS: Glenwood Springs
People might best know the town of Glenwood Springs, CO as that extra long stop on Amtrak's California Zephyr, but there's a reason for the extra long platform and the generally high level of activity....
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25-08-22 PHOTOS: MANTUA and PARK
Back in 2024 I paid a visit to the Columbia Ave overpass over Amtrak's Northeast Corridor in Northwest Philadelphia. When later processing the events of the trip I realized that the location as...
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25-08-30 PHOTOS: Lower Hellgate Line
As Penn Station Access ramps up on Amtrak's Hellgate Line between Sunnyside, Queens and New Rochelle Rochelle, it has started to put pressure on the Amber PRR Position Light signals that were...
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25-09-09 PHOTOS: Cleveland Circle
In September of 2025 I was able to score a work related trip to Boston and since I have been making about two trips per year to that city for the past decade it was somewhat difficult to figure out a...
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25-09-26 PHOTOS: St. Louis Arch
Apart from a brief station stop on the Texas Eagle in 2019, my only visit to Saint Louis had been visiting a friend back in 2005 and although I did get to run a lot of MetroLink, I was limited in photo...
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25-10-08 PHOTOS: The Two Laurels
They say its easy to overlook the familiar. Despite living south of Baltimore for many years now I had never visited the MARC Camden Linestation in Laurel, MD, except while riding the service in...
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