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It had been six years since my last long Western ride. Back in 2006, I'd ridden Elko-Salt Lake City and Ogden-Elko, first along the southern shore of the Great

This was one of the fastest, smoothest catch-outs ever. I dropped off my rental car at the Citgo station in downtown Cumberland, Md., and climbed aboard a grainer a few

It had been nearly a year since my ecstatic daylight ride through the Wind River Canyon of Wyoming.I flew into Salt Lake City, arriving for the first time since

St. Louis always has occupied a peculiar lacuna in my personal history. It was the big city nearest to my hometown but was in long-term decline and lacked several attributes

There are few experiences sadder than returning to a Western railroad yard 12 years later. In 1993, starting out of Laurel, Montana, I had launched a two-week journey - between

After six years, I saw the Colorado outlaw known as TTK again in Fort Collins, Colorado. I'd slept behind a maintenance building and gave him a call that morning.

It was time for a training ride, nothing glamorous or long, but a tune-up for a much longer trip up ahead. Back in 2002 or 2003, I had accidentally

The Norfolk Southern's Valley line runs up from Roanoke to Hagerstown, Md., through the Jefferson and George Washington national forests and between two mountain ranges. Roanoke is the corporate

Bruce came by, with plans that lifted me out of my post-injury depression. After committing sedition for a couple days, he was ready to head to the Northeast by