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16-06-16 PHOTOS: Gasden Purchase
The Gasden Purchase was the last territorial expansion of the contiguous United States. It was carried out by the Pierce administration back in 1853 as part of an effort to build a transcontinental...
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16-06-16a PHOTOS: The Big River Pass
At Deming, NM I decided to take an hour off for lunch and was able to just make it back as the eastbound Sunset Limited began the descent down into El Paso, TX. This involved crossing the...
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16-06-16b PHOTOS: West Texas Intermediates
I've mentioned before that Orange, CA is closer to El Paso than Orange, TX. On the Sunset Limited one doesn't to sleep in Texas and then wakes up, still in Texas. Texas takes a full 24 hours to cross...
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PHOTOS 16-06-17: Sunwet Limited
While not the sort of disaster that took up weeks or months of headlines, East Texas received quite a bit of rain in early June 2016, driving some rivers to record highs and causing rail congestion due...
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16-06-17a PHOTOS: Plan Brazos
In late May and June, 2016, Texas was subjected to a record setting amount of rainfall that caused the Brazos river, just west of Houston, to rise to a level of 53'. While the flooding snarled rail...
View Article16-06-17 VIDEOS: Sunset Detour
Although I did have my GoPro with me on my 2015 Cross Country trip, this would be the first year where I would get to make proper use of it. Still, I didn't have unlimited battery or memory card...
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16-06-17b PHOTOS: Beaumont Bayou
Houston generally marks the halfway point on the second day of the westbound Sunset Limited's journey to New Orleans. After the lengthy detour around the out of service Brazos River bridge, we backed...
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16-06-17c PHOTOS: Gulf Coast
In the final segment of my 2016 transcontinental Amtrak Long distance trip I travel from the sweatbox city of Beaumont, TX to Lafayette, LA and ultimately New Orleans. The route follows the gulf coast...
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16-06-18 PHOTOS: Desirable Streetcars
New Orleans has come a long way since it was destroyed in 2005. By the time of my visitin 2009, all three of the streetcar lines were back up and running. Six years later a new line had been built to...
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03-08-16 CLASSIC PHOTOS: Boston MBTA Trip
Thanks to various personal contacts, Boston has been a perennial railfanning destination of mine going way back. During the summer of 2003 I had was taking advantage of a break in schooling to stuff as...
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16-07-01 PHOTOS: TRAFF
CP-TRAFF in Trafford, PA is located at the east end of the former PRR Pitcarin Yard, just outside of Pittsburgh on the old Main Line. Today the yard has been mostly gutted and now stands as Norfolk...
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16-07-04 PHOTOS: Local Color
Sometimes that which you see every day so blends into the background that it becomes easy to ignore. With the impending rebuid of the classic PATCO cars, I have been making more of an effort to take...
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16-07-29 PHOTOS: Savage Meet
In recent years CSX has made a number of infrastructure upgrades to its Capitol and Metropolitan Subdivisions that host weekday commuter operations from Maryland's MARC service provider. I should...
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03-08-11 CLASSIC PHOTOS: 2003 SEPTA Mid-Summer Trip
In honor of the 16th SEPTA Mid-Winter Trip taking place this Tuesday, I wanted to post some classic photos from the first and so far only SEPTA Mid-Summer trip. At the time, many of the SubCHAT...
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16-08-09 PHOTOS: Austin City Limits
Known by many as the only civilized city in Texas, Austin is a cultural hub and home to the University of Texas. However, when it comes to rail transportation, Austin finds itself somewhat lacking...
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16-09-01 VIDEOS: Amtrak NEC
So since Amtrak moved Business Class to the rear of Regional Trains, I realized I had been rather lax in taking advantage of the previously inexpensive real window access after the point that I became...
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16-09-01 PHOTOS: Braintree
On my most recent trip to visit Boston, which took place over this past Labour Day Weekend, I found myself with an additional 45 minutes to kill on top of the usual 90-120 minute layover between the...
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PHOTOS 16-09-01: Downeaster Dome
Most years, Amtrak's sole remaining Great Dome car gets trotted out in the fall to provide leaf peepers with a better view on the Adirondack and (occasionally) Cardinal services. In 2016, NNEPRA, the...
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03-07-21 CLASSIC PHOTOS: MFL Bridge St Last Day
Back in 2003, SEPTA was in the process of replacing the last piece of its un-rebuilt elevated structure on the Frankford section of the Market-Frankford Line that dated from 1918. While a harbinger of...
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02-07-19 CLASSIC PHOTOS: Boonton Line
Notice I didn't title this "Montclair-Boonton Line". Back in the summer of 2002, the word came down that the old Erie RR portion of the NJT Boonton Line would be abandoned in favor of a new routing via...
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