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25-10-25 PHOTOS: HARRIS+
When the leaves start turning colors I am suddenly reminded that I need to get out to HARRIS tower before it closes for the season. 2025 would be no different, but earlier in the week I had spent some...
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25-10-12 PHOTOS: Meet The Fleet
In the fall of 2025 New Jersey Transit announced a "Meet The Fleet" open house at Hoboken Terminal where they could put a portion of their heritage and special scheme units on display. This is a...
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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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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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05-01-10 CLASSIC PHOTOS: Old Bailey
When I was going to school in Baltimore I never seemed to have the time to go downtown to check out what CSX was up to or the linger B&O infrastructure. During the winter break of 2004 I did...
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04-06-12 CLASSIC PHOTOS: Seashore Trolley Museum
Often referred to as the gold standard in streetcar museums, the Seashore Trolley Museum is unfortunately a bit off my beaten path being both in Maine and also transit inaccessible. However back in...
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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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25-08-30 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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25-08-22 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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25-08-16 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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25-08-09 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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25-07-15 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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25-07-03 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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25-06-21 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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04-01-21 CLASSIC PHOTOS: Pittsburgh Alliance
Towards the end of my semester break during the winter of 2024 I found another friend who was interested in trying out my old playbook of running the triangle route between Philly, Pittsburgh and...
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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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25-06-14 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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04-01-12 CLASSIC PHOTOS: Patchogue
In the early years of my rail enthusiasm I had a recurring issue of failing to document "close by" infrastructure at risk of closure and demolition. Not having a car was a big factor and Amtrak was...
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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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25-05-24 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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