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Trio #01 My rail travels over the past 2-decades have been aboard trains in Canada and the U.S. (Alaska included). The majority of fotos were taken thru the windows of my bedroom accommodations or from the rear vestibule when the sleeping car was located at the rear. Others were snapped inside...

Greetings Rail Travelers! Time for another installment of my contributions to this forum: St. Louis to Chicago to Sacramento aboard the Lincoln Service/California Zephyr and the California State RR Museum. Enjoy . . . Amtrak Lincoln Service – California Zephyr October 26th - 30th, 2014 St...

G'day from chilly and damp east central Missouri! I expect things to heat up a bit as "my" Cardinals get going tonite against the Giants . . . however, the point of this post is to provide my personal accounting of a recent trip taken to New Orleans for a visit to a most impressive place - the...

G'day rail travelers, I have two trips booked for travel aboard the California Zephyr from Chicago - the first to Reno, the second to Sacramento; both are in October. As is my practice with long distance travel, I check (1) for schedule changes (2) trip interruptions - and - (3)...

Greetings Rail Travelers! Logged another long distance rail trip . . . all are now repeat-repeaters, meaning been there done that more than once. However, as with many of you - I never grow weary of riding the rails. Enjoy . . . . Caveat: These reports are “memo’s to file” and are intended...

G'day! I resumed my rail travels after a brief hiatus with another run along my FAY-VOR-IYTE short-distance route aboard the Missouri River Runner from Kirkwood, MO to KCity and return. This one turned out to be amongst the longest ever encountered - but a good time nonetheless . . . Trip...

Greetings! Here is a reduced version of my personal trip report over my Natal Day weekend aboard the east bound SW Chief from Los Angeles to Kansas City . . . . For those who appreciate these sorts of things, enjoy! Some fotos will follow - but only a few. More will be posted on my web site...

Greetings from a chilly mid-May afternoon in east central Missouri, USA . . . Another installment from my trip notes of rail travels . . . this one of my 2nd round trip between Kirkwood and Kansas City, MO in 2014 . . . Trip Report May 14th, 2014 Kirkwood – Kansas City – Kirkwood Aboard...

Greetings! Time for another installment from my notes of personal train trips - this one is my return from Chicago on May 7th, 2014 aboard the Texas Eagle in lower level roomette #11 . . . Trip Report May 7th, 2014 Chicago – St. Louis Aboard the Texas Eagle #21 Solo Wednesday, May 7th...

Good Morning from a spectacular spring morning in mid-continent USA where things are about to go "south" as a storm front is on the way. What's new, eh? Some trip info from my latest venture on the rails - Amtrak's Lincoln Service, train 302 from St. Louis to Chicago on May 7th, 2014 in...

Hello, Thought I would add some travel report-type chat to this forum. So many threads so little time . . . Anyway, on March 28th I resumed my cross-Missouri round trips aboard Amtrak's Missouri River Runner for a full day and early night journey aboard #311 (westbound) and #316 for the...

Ahoy Model Railroaders! I may be new to this site but my experiences with trains (real and model) go back many decades. Anyway, here is what I hope will be a continuing series of fotos from my train room - named: CanAm. Yes, we are a Canadian-American family (for those appreciating the use of a...

Ahoy Train Travelers! My hope is to provide some snaps of scenes along the rails during my train trips throughout the U.S. and Canada. For the record, I am an average "point and shoot" kinda guy. Many of my fotos were taken from the last car in the consist, through the vestibule window with...

I suppose in the jargon of forum lingo, I am a "newbie." For whatever the reason, that term along with "foamer" has always wrankled me a bit. Anyway, so be it - I am a "newbie" at nearly 76 years of age. Wow. The point of all of this is to introduce myself with the hope that my appearances on...