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24-01-14 PHOTOS: N&W CPL Hunt
Over MLK Day weekend of 2024 I went out with a friend for a day long driving tour of Northern Virginia to confirm and photograph interlocking locations on the NS H-Line that were still equipped with...
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24-01-19 PHOTOS: Mattapan Snow
The Mattapan PCC's are perhaps the crown jewel in Boston's railfanning scene featuring un-reconstructed streetcars that have been in continuous service since the 1940's. Operating as an extension of...
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The MBTA's Mattapan-Ashmont "high speed" line is a part streetcar museum, part light rail transit operating at the southern end of the Red Line subway's Ashmont branch. As previously covered in my last...
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03-07-21 CLASSIC PHOTOS: MFL Frankford Terminal
In 2003 SEPTA was on the verge of closing Frankford Terminal, the last un-rebuilt portion of the Frankford Elevated that now makes up the eastern half of the Market-Frankford El. While I have covered...
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24-02-11 PHOTOS: Schenectady River Line
Over the past 20 years Schenectady, NY has changed from a blighted city suffering the effects of post-industrial decline, to a vibrant community benefiting from the resurgence in urban living. Public...
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24-02-16 PHOTOS: Rinky Dinky
Most years I travel up to Princeton to watch them play the RPI Engineers in NCAA D-I Hockey. This usually results in some photos at the NJT Princeton Station which is directly adjacent to Princeton's...
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24-02-24 PHOTOS: Croton-Harmon
In recent years where I have found myself with expiring Amtrak Companion Coupons I wind up hastily arranging an Amtrak trip with whichever friend will put up with me to whichever destination we can...
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24-02-29 PHOTOS: Leap Day
It's not every day I get to use transit for work related purposes and its not every year that February has 29 days, but in 2024 both happened at the same time and the net result was that I wound up...
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24-03-09 PHOTOS: Power Director Office Powered Up
In the spring of 2024 it had been over a year since I had been able to get out to the Harrisburg Power Director's office, which had been between 1939 and 2013 in service to manage to manage the PRR's...
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24-03-14 PHOTOS: Carrollton
For the better part of a decade I have been enjoying the privilege of a yearly trip to the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area for arts event with friends and during that time I have been checking off parts...
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24-03-22 PHOTOS: Greenfield
For years I was aware that my cousin lived in "western Mass", but I always assumed it was somewhere inaccessible and didn't press further. It was only in 2024 that I discovered it lived only 8 minutes...
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03-02-02 CLASSIC PHOTOS: Lackawanna Cutoff
Less than a year after my first digital camera purchase I scored a photographic coup with a visit to the iconic Lackawanna Cutoff Paulinskill viaduct in northern New Jersey. Today the 1,100 feet long...
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24-03-23 PHOTOS: East Deerfield
In part two of my trip to Greenfield, Mass I check out the Boston and Maine's former East Deerfield yard, which has become a significant railfan hotspot in the Guilford era and beyond. I then work my...
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24-04-02 PHOTOS: Geeps of Erie
NJT has been on a roll with heritage and other special paint schemes, so when they painted up one of the GP40PH-2B's in Erie colors where better to send it than the Atlantic City Line due to its...
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03-01-15 CLASSIC PHOTOS: Chicago Trip
In 2003 I undertook a solo Amtrak long distance trip to visit a friend in Chicago using the since-canceled Three Rivers for the outbound leg and the Lake Shore Limited for the return. This was before I...
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24-04-08 PHOTOS: Northeast Kingdom
In 2017 I ventured to eastern Tennessee to witness the total solar eclipse whose track spanned the full width of the continental United States. I enjoyed the trip so much that I immediately made plans...
View Article24-04-14 VIDEOS: Over 9000!
Friends of Philadelphia Trolleys have been organizing multiple charters on SEPTA's extensive streetcar network per year for the last few decades and until April of 2024 I had ridden exactly zero of of...
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