Hagerstown? Where’s that? I recently attended a living history event at Fort Frederick State Park in Big Pool, Maryland. Restaurants are...

Fred Harvey was a British immigrant that brought high standards for trackside eating halls alongside the Atchinson, Topeka, and Santa Fe...

Yes, I’m a museum professional, but that doesn’t mean I don’t use museum databases to see objects I enjoy when I get home. I’m...

More train poetry, spawned by the parade of deteriorating industrial buildings which may be viewed by Amtrak and NJ Transit passengers...

Group listening to Bob Diamond of BHRA in the tunnel under Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn. RL Fifield, 2010. Until December 2010, at the...

Last Tuesday, I was somewhere in eastern Ohio. I had access to a car, and nothing to do for eight hours. You got it – it was Lincoln...

Passing under the lift bridge serving the Norfolk & Southern Railroad at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. RL Fifield, 2012. There’s a...

CNJRR Train Shed and Communipaw Terminal. RL Fifield, 2011. Staring out over New York Harbor, the Central Railroad of New Jersey’s...

I had been warned that Albuquerque wasn’t much. What I saw most in Albuquerque: the AIC meeting at the Albuquerque Convention center....

But instead, all I got was this tiny seat on a tin-can of an airplane. I investigated the details of how I would possibly get to...

I was using this Martenet Map of Harford County from 1878, viewable on the Library of Congress website, to do some family research. I was...

I was using this Martenet Map of Harford County from 1878, viewable on the Library of Congress website, to do some family research. I was...

Travel by Train, Denver Colorado. RL Fifield photo, 2007. Bumping around the Internet, I came upon this group of images of North American...

Travel by Train, Denver Colorado. RL Fifield photo, 2007. Bumping around the Internet, I came upon this group of images of North American...

New York Penn Station, thy name is Melancholy. New York’s Pennsylvania Station. Lost, 1963. Photo credit: New York Public Library via...

I prefer rehabbed PCCs, but at least it’s a streetcar! Photo credit: mariordo59 via Visual hunt / CC BY-SA Streetcar service ended in...