Colleagues of mine were up from DC this week for the Alliance for Response NYC program “Community-Based Recovery After Superstorm Sandy”...

Munich Hauptbahnhof. RL Fifield 2012. I had a crazy scheme for last week’s trip to Germany. My last visit was to Dusseldorf and Cologne....

Hauptbahnhof. It has to be my favorite German word. Feeling adventurous, I decided to fly directly to Munich and check out the city...

Answer: Corsets. The Royal Worcester Corset Factory was the largest U.S. employer of women in 1908. Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary....

Once again Transit Tuesday is busting in on Museum Monday. RL Fifield 2012. The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is located in Strasburg,...

Perhaps Amtrak is a little late for many rail fans, but the Amtrak history website led to me losing a few hours last night while I poked...

I was putting together another post on Amtrak when I stumbled across a New York Times Opinion on Amtrak’s Quiet Car by Tim Krieder. The...

Work took me kicking and screaming to Ottawa this week. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of Canada. It was just a chock a block week and...

Transit Tuesday is moving on in on Museum Monday. London Transport Museum. Old Metropolitan Railway Car. Photo: RL Fifield 2010. If I...

Call me a dreamer. A romantic. Impractical. Head in the clouds. One of those city folk (that’s hilarious, you should see where I grew...

Inari sushi – sweetened deep fried tofu skin stuffed with rice dressed with rice vinegar, salt, and sugar. Photo by miwa_in_oz There is...

RL Fifield 2011. Mountains. The Canadian version of Seattle. West coast cool.  I’d heard so much about it, and while the mountains are...

RL Fifield 2009. A fantastic collection in an incredible building tell the epic story of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The 1884...

Ancestry.com, as a genealogical tool, is a start for many doing genealogy. I see it as a way to sketch and share only. There are a lot of...

I was inspired by this salted paper print from the 1850s of people posing for a photograph on a Baltimore and Ohio engine. I thought...

The El still lives on in Chicago – I’m not sure that they could live without it. But the El once was a vital part of New York...

Say it with me: Hauptbahnhof. What a great word “train station” is in German. I was recently in Germany for work and I had a free day to...

Cold Spring. RL Fifield 2012. Dr. V and I took the week off a couple of weeks ago, and finally followed through on a plan to go hiking....

This post is not about servants. So much of the time when I refer to runaways, it’s in relation to indentured and enslaved women....

I’ve been working on a short story for years about a friendship slipping into an unfamiliar place. One of these days I’ll fish it out of...