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20-05-19 PHOTOS: Greenbelt
For the better part of a decade the Baltimore and Ohio Color Position Light signals at Greenbelt, MD have stood alone as the last main line CPLs in the B&O's home state. The cause is a quirk of...
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20-05-25 PHOTOS: DuBois
Du Bios, Pennsylvania is an important hub on the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad, a G&W owned regional line with over 700 route miles. Originally built by the Baltimore and Ohio as the Buffalo,...
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02-05-20 CLASSIC PHOTOS: PATCO Unrebuilt
In the early 2000's PATCO started a general rebuilding project that would replace a lot of its original 1968 equipment such as ties, poles and rail. Just as this project was starting in 2002, I went...
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20-05-30 PHOTOS: Reading and Northern
Since 1990 the Reading, Blue Mountain and Northern has been an outstanding success story revitalizing both passenger and freight rail transportation in the former anthracite region of eastern...
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20-05-30 PHOTOS: Reading and Northern - Part 2
Here is Part 2 of my May 2020 trip with Kevin Painter into the coal region of Eastern Pennsylvania to check out the recent improvements made to the Reading and Northern railroad that operates on the...
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19-05-27 PHOTOS: Old Main Line Tunnels
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad's Old Main Line was the first railroads constructed in the United States and also one of the first in the world with the initial segment opening for service in 1830....
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20-06-12 PHOTOS: Old PARK
In 2010 Amtrak's PARK tower in Parkesburg, PA closed as one of the final pieces of PennDoT's Phase 1 110mph Keystone Corridor upgrade. Once serving as a junction between the original Pennsylvania...
View Article20-06-27 VIDEOS: COVID Crescent
The best way to travel in a pandemic that doesn't involve driving or flying yourself is easily the private sleeping car accommodation. Sealed off from every other human, one can travel to their...
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20-06-27 PHOTOS: COVID Crescent
Here is Part 2 of my June 2020 trip to Georgia via a sleeping accommodation on Amtrak's Crescent. Due to the pandemic I wasn't inclined to travel either on an aircraft or passenger rail coach, however...
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20-07-03 PHOTOS: B&LE
I have some friends in the Pittsburgh area that I tend to visit around the July 4th holiday. In 2020 I was still able to get out there, but due to a variety of factors, first and foremost the...
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20-07-25 PHOTOS: Continetal Divide
The Continental Divide sounds like an intimidating barrier to transcontinental travel, however on some rail lines such as the Southern Pacific's Sunset route the crossing is so sedate that it's not...
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CLASSIC PHOTOS 04-03-18: ACMU Trip
In the early 2000's, I was just as attuned to endangered rolling stock as I am today, possibly moreso as I had recently missed out on a number of retirements and some of the equipment reached back to...
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20-08-09 PHOTOS: BALDWIN
The Baldwin Locomotive Works was a steam age industrial giant that constructed over 70,000 locomotives between 1825 and 1956. Originally based in Philadelphia proper just west of Broad Street along the...
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20-08-11 PHOTOS: Edgewood
Edgewood, Maryland is a town located between Baltimore and Aberdeen on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. The town features a MARC commuter rail station directly adjacent to Amtrak's WOOD interlocking that...
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20-08-25 PHOTOS: Lamokin
The Pennsylvania Railroad's electrification system was not a monolithic project that was built in one go. From start to finish the project took a total of 24 years, although the majority of this took...
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04-06-24 Classic Photos: Camden Line WMATA Trip
Back in the spring of 2004 I was on break from school and figured I should use the opportunity to explore some of the DC Metrorail system with fellow enthusiast Oren "Mr. Metrorail" Hirsch. Not...
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04-09-11 CLASSIC PHOTOS: 30th St Parking Garage
Amtrak's 30th Street Station always had a parking deck over the tracks on the north side of the complex, however before 2004 the single level structure was well within the eye line of the booth...
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20-01-31 PHOTOS: Schodak
Every year I head up to New York's capitol region for winter activities and 2020 was no different. This year I had targeted some signal locations near the end of the Schodak branch on the former...
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20-09-04 PHOTOS: Lowell Searchlights
In September 2020 I seized upon an opportunity to reach the summit of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. Because I wanted to get my T-Shirt and my friend was adamantly opposed to either the...
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04-05-30 CLASSIC PHOTOS: NEC Trips
In May 2004 I was still making regular trips between Baltimore and the New Haven, CT area although the content opportunities were getting a bit repetitive I kept up with the photos and assembled a...
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