Blame my 4-year hiatus of jumping trains on global warming but I’m back
The timeline of this 70-mile ride is as follows: I reach the yard at 11 a.m. The train arrives in
Read moreAbdul Rahimov has a Ph.D. in Russian history from Stanford. He studied earlier at Harvard and grew up in Illinois in a railroad-dominated town.Rahimov prefers to use a pen name to avoid attracting unnecessary attention from railroads. He lives on the East Coast.
The timeline of this 70-mile ride is as follows: I reach the yard at 11 a.m. The train arrives in
Read morePORTUGAL — Some of us don’t travel the world looking for bridges to jump from; it only works out that
Read moreSome places enable you to mix history and reckless recreation. Mostar, Bosnia, is one of them. I was in Bosnia
Read moreFifteen years later, I was back in Detroit. On my first, long-ago trip, two weeks before 9/11, I left my
Read moreAs December of another year squandered in the East loomed, the time came to pursue “rare miles” in a hyper-congested
Read moreIn another life I had time to ride freight trains around the West, through thousands of miles of scenery that
Read moreErnest Hemingway hopping a freight train between boxcars to get to Walloon Lake in 1916. (Wikipedia Commons) After 17 months
Read moreNot many tourists go sightseeing in Camden these days. I did on New Year’s Day, in pursuit of a public
Read moreIt had been six years since my last long Western ride. Back in 2006, I’d ridden Elko-Salt Lake City and
Read moreThis was one of the fastest, smoothest catch-outs ever. I dropped off my rental car at the Citgo station in
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