Rail Rides and True Adventures Archives - Page 2 of 6

Catching trains in Maryland and nearly blinded for life

This was one of the fastest, smoothest catch-outs ever. I dropped off my rental car at the Citgo station in

It had been nearly a year since my ecstatic daylight ride through the Wind River Canyon of Wyoming. I flew

St. Louis always has occupied a peculiar lacuna in my personal history. It was the big city nearest to my

There are few experiences sadder than returning to a Western railroad yard 12 years later. In 1993, starting out of

After six years, I saw the Colorado outlaw known as TTK again in Fort Collins, Colorado. I’d slept behind a

It was time for a training ride, nothing glamorous or long, but a tune-up for a much longer trip up

The Norfolk Southern’s Valley line runs up from Roanoke to Hagerstown, Md., through the Jefferson and George Washington national forests

Bruce came by, with plans that lifted me out of my post-injury depression. After committing sedition for a couple days,

For three days in 2003 I had relentlessly pushed a rental car through the splendors of western Colorado, what they

Three years later, I flew back to far northern California to revisit the place and the memory of those adventures.Now