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Teaching a friend to jump trains from Washington to Richmond

After many years of solo riding, I was bringing along someone else for the first time — a coworker who

“The Santa Fe has a reputation for speed.” That phrase from a business article rings true. The BNSF habitually attaches

For some time, I had been speculatively eyeing elderly pedestrians and baby strollers from my car. So for everybody’s benefit,

As the pig train trundled by, I cautiously touched its side. My hand came flying back toward my face. Yeah,

It would work out this way: my first train in 15 months would be the toughest to catch. At 1:15 a.m. a

It was time, after a long and gloomy hibernation in perhaps America’s foulest climate, to resume hitting the rails. From

My target was Buffalo’s magnificent, long-abandoned train station, the Central Terminal. After two days of legitimate sightseeing in low-key Canada,

I’d bought a discounted round-trip Greyhound ticket to Salt Lake, my jumping-off point. I looked through the bus window and saw

This has been a sad summer of watching the Union Pacific prepare to swallow up the Southern Pacific. Already some

My plan was to hit two separate lines, the Royal Gorge route and the Santa Fe’s Raton Pass route. The