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17-02-04 PHOTOS: Aberdeen and Charles Towne
Aberdeen, MD, that annoying stop on the NEC that adds 5 minutes Washington bound train's journey time for no appreciable reason. Aberdeen, MD, that low level stop where passengers have to walk forward...
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17-01-20 PHOTOS: Amtrak New Englande
Back in January I ventured up to Boston via Amtrak and despite the short days and crummy weather I managed to generate a little bit of rail related content. The northbound trip was on the notorious...
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17-02-16 PHOTOS: Hudson Line
In recent years I have had paid a number of visits to the former New York Central Hudson Line both on the ground and on Amtrak Empire Service trains. A good number of them have enabled me to take video...
View Article17-02-16 VIDEOS: Hudson Line North
Like the photo surveys, I have also done a number of rear and front facing video surveys of the Hudson Line. Last year I documented the entire Amtrak section north of CP-75 and south of DV. Previously...
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17-02-18 PHOTOS: Schenectady Stuff
Well the second part of my 2017 trip to the NY Capitol District is focused on the Schenectady area due to the ongoing re-signaling efforts and replacement of the Amshackle downtown passenger station....
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04-04-01 CLASSIC PHOTOS: Martinsburg Trip
Back in 2004 I was living in Baltimore without a car and was looking to visit a friend in the Chambersburg, PA area. The closest railheads were in Frederick, MD, served by a new MARC commuter service,...
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17-03-23 PHOTOS: Dallas-Fort Worth
Ten years ago I traveled to Dallas-Ft. Worth and was shocked to see that the region had an extensive rail transportation network, since typically public transportation in Texas consists of hopping into...
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17-04-20 PHOTOS: RBBX
In spring of 2017 the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus (reporting mark RBBX) packed up its tent for good. Attendance had been slowly declining for years, however the bottom fell out...
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17-05-16 PHOTOS: New York Ave
edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStrIf you are ever in Washington DC with a few minutes to spare before your train departs Union Station, consider taking the Red Line for an additional stop and spending your...
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17-05-21 PHOTOS: Reading Line East
With the ongoing re-signaling project on the former Conrail Reading Line I have been making a point to document the old stuff before it is gone for good. Last November I took a road trip to capture...
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17-05-27 PHOTOS: Paw Paw Tunnel
The Paw Paw Tunnel is a 3,118-foot-long (950 m) canal tunnel on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Western Maryland between Hancock and Cumberland. Work started on the tunnel in 1836, although by the...
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03-07-31 CLASSIC PHOTOS: NJT PVL Trip
It's Thanksgiving week so this post is going to be a shorty. Back in 2003 I came upon an interesting idea for a trip with one of my New York friends to ride the NJT PVL line outbound from Hoboken and...
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17-06-08 GUEST PHOTOS: Alaska - Part 1
This summer my friend got a special 30th Birthday gift that involved flying to Alaska, taking the Alaska Railroad from Anchorage to Denali National Park and then continuing his trip from Denali to...
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17-06-08 GUEST PHOTOS: Alaska - Part 2
 Here we go with Part 2 of guest photos covering a trip on the Alaska Railroad. In case you pissed Part 1, you can find it here. LTDR my friend got a special 30th Birthday gift that involved flying...
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03-12-29 CLASSIC PHOTOS: SEPTA Mid-Winter Trip III
The third annual SEPTA Mid-Winter Trip took place in 2003. It was only the second where I had my digital camera and still early enough in the series so that almost everywhere we went was a "first"....
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04-12-29 CLASSIC PHOTOS: SEPTA Mid-Winter Trip IV
The fourth annual SEPTA Mid-Winter Trip took place in 2004 and was built around the mid-day Cynwyd round trip, departing Suburban Station. At the time SEPTA was actively trying to kill the Cynwyd...
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16-10-29 PHOTOS: HARRIS Autumn Express
So Amtrak scheduling its 2016 Autumn Express on consecutive days earlier in the season had a number of great benefits. The first was that the leaf color was better, the second is that an October date...
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16-10-30 PHOTOS: Autumn Express - Lehigh Line
After sitting out the 2015 Amtrak Autumn Express due to its distant location in the NY Capitol Region and complete lack of same day connection to/from trains to NYC, I was much more receptive to the...
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17-06-11 PHOTOS: Middle Division West
With the NS re-signaling project on the PRR Main Line (Pittsburgh Line) dragging on into a second year, I I scheduled a second outing with the site owner of railroadsignals.us to document the western...
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17-06-18 PHOTOS: Baltimore Link
When the surprise Republican governor took control in Maryland in 2014, one of the first things he did was cancel the ambitious "Red Line" light rail project that would have created an east-west rail...
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