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• Penny Post Office in Winter: Population = 1

  
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  Further to my article in October Stamp News about the remote Penny Post Office between Prince George and Jasper in Canada that handles all its mail by rail, I received an email from the Postmaster and her husband on Christmas Day. The population of 5½ in summer increased to 6 when the previous Postmaster gave birth ...
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• Canada Via Rail terror plot – Third jihadi arrested – Planned to kill 100k Americans

  
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  On YouTube: Click here to view the embedded video. Published on May 9, 2013 by SDAMatt2a A Tunisian the FBI says “radicalized” VIA Rail terror suspect Chiheb Esseghaier has been charged with terrorism-related offences in New York following an undercover investigation.
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• Celebrate National Train Day with these railroad reads!

  
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  Today is National Train Day ! Learn more about railroad history and why trains still matter in these books: Railroads and the American People H. Roger Grant "With plenty of detail, Grant brings a bygone era back to life, addressing everything from social and commercial appeal, racial and gender issues, safety ...
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• Weekend Steam: Really, Really Big

  
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  From SteamRailwayWorld.
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• City Room: A Parade of Vintage Trains, Unnoticed in the Harlem Night

  
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  A collection of privately owned train cars made their way to Grand Central late Thursday night, though Harlem appeared unmoved.        
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• A Parade of Vintage Trains, Unnoticed in the Harlem Night

  
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  A collection of privately owned train cars made their way to Grand Central late Thursday night, though Harlem appeared unmoved.
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• Berkshires B-Share Generation

  
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  OMAHA (TheStreet) -- Nick Antoine traveled to Berkshire Hathaways annual shareholder meeting with air miles and lodged in a "dirt cheap" hotel room with a ceiling that leaked water from an overflowing toilet a floor above. The 24 year-old Princeton University graduate was forced to splurge on taxis due to ...
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• Train Wreck at Boulder

  
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  At four o’clock on the afternoon of October 15, 1890, a train laden with ore on the Northern Pacific’s Helena, Boulder Valley & Butte Railroad chugged south along its rugged route from Helena to Boulder. Samuel T. Hauser filed articles of incorporation, with himself as president, and financed the line, built ...
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• Undercover In An Industrial Slaughterhouse – Part 1

  
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  Ted Conover is an author, journalist and a distinguished writer-in-residence in the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University. He teaches graduate courses in Literary Reportage — the art of blending documentary, reportage-style observations, with personal experience, and anecdotal evidence in ...
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• National Train Day - 2013

  
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  Amtrak will host the sixth annual National Train Day on Saturday, May 11, 2013, at historic L.A. Union Station from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. This family friendly event is free to the public. National Train Day Link. National Train Day is back to celebrate train travel and the ways trains touch the lives of ...
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• Weekend Steam

  
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  Jimnutz107 provides a fascinating visit to the Illinois Railroad Museum.
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• In Transit Blog: Riding the Rail, Countryside

  
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  Korail, the Korean Railway, recently introduced two sightseeing trains that explore the country’s mountainous and rural areas.        
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• Great Northern Insignia

  
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  The white silhouette of a Rocky Mountain goat on red background was the majestic insignia for the Great Northern Railway. How this famous symbol came to be is a long forgotten tale.  William P. Kenney, who served as Great Northern president in the 1930s, grew up in south Minneapolis. As a boy he sold newspapers. His ...
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• The human footprint in the American West

  
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  Over the past few years, I’ve been creating slides—hundreds and hundreds them. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation , a major environmental funder, asked us to take stock of the state of the North American West, one of its geographic priorities. Rather than write a report that would quickly be shelved, we ...
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• Mystery Ovens

  
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  There are some curious features along the historic railroad grades in Montana, particularly in Lincoln and Prairie counties. These are domed rock structures that resemble small huts. They are typically called Chinese ovens and serve as a good example of misunderstanding and faulty logic. When Henry Villard, ...
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• VIA Rail reviews security procedures to make sure your train isn’t a ‘terrorist killing field’

  
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  OTTAWA — VIA Rail says it will review its security procedures following the arrest of two men alleged to have plotted an attack against one of its train routes. Safety procedures largely take place behind-the-scenes, said a spokesman for the Crown corporation, unlike the visible police presence and bomb-sniffing ...
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• Riding Norfolk Southern to Value

  
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  NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Before analyzing a company for investment, its important to have a perspective on how well the business has performed. At at the end of the day, if you are an investor, you are buying the business. The FAST Graphs presented with this article will focus first on the business behind the stock. ...
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• A.G.R.I = Analysis of Global Risk Intelligence from the Environmental Parliament

  
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  “It is the mark of an intelligent educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Of an even higher intelligence is the mind that is able to entertain conflicting thoughts without prejudice and preference until such time that the merits of each are fully manifest and thus allow for the correct ...
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• Airways to Railways

  
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  Airways to Railways Salem Depot Salem, Massachusetts Photo: CrazyasaCoolFox This railway purchased the trademark and all rights to the Pan Am name when the airline went bankrupt at a bargain price from what I understand. It still looks silly to see an the old airliners logo and name on a ...
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• Canada VIA Rail terror plot: mohammadan disapproves of man-made laws

  
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  On YouTube: Click here to view the embedded video. Published on Apr 24, 2013 by SDAMatt2a As a man with possible ties to the Toronto terror suspects was being held in New York, the Tunisian who allegedly sparked the investigation told a judge that criminal law was “imperfect” because it was not derived ...
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