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• Another MARC service expansion follow up: re-instituting later service between Baltimore and Washington

  
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  Flickr photo by AgeOwns.com. The article in todays Post reiterates the BBJ article that I linked to in yesterdays Post, but it reminds me of something else. First, Ive suggested for many years, building on work by Dan Malouff of BeyondDC , that Maryland and Virginia should merge their passenger rail systems. ...
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• What Material Is Used By Modelmakers To Make…?

  
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  When I see those architectural models in office hallways of their own buildings and grounds, what is used to make those models? There are buildings, grass, trees, etc. What is generally used for these? Clay? paper? wood? cardboard? foam board? styrofoam? And how about the grass and trees? Where can one learn how to ...
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• Pakistan’s Railroads Sum Up Nation’s Woes

  
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  A journey across Pakistan’s crumbling railway presents a picture of the country’s troubles: natural disasters and hardened insurgencies, abject poverty and feudal kleptocrats, and an economy near meltdown.        
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• Pakistan, as Seen Through its Railways

  
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  At every major stop on the long line from Peshawar to the turbulent port city of Karachi lie reminders of why the country is a worry to its people, and to the wider world.        
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• The Lede: Images From Connecticut Train Derailment

  
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  Commuters on the trains that collided late Friday, and local reporters, began posting images from the scene almost as soon as the crash occurred.        
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• Images From Connecticut Train Derailment

  
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  Commuters on the trains that collided late Friday, and local reporters, began posting images from the scene almost as soon as the crash occurred.
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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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