Among the many wondrous & strange things to be found on this Internet of ours are videos, originally taken from film, of the railways of Japan at the time of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
( Here be links to YouTube - Beware! )

During the "South by Southwest" festival in Austin Texas, which I was attending on account of my appearance in a film showing there, I decided to use public transportation to avoid having to drive and park in the notorious downtown traffic.  There proved to be aspects of this which did not work out particularly well, & left me in doubt as to the ( Read more... )

I realized I had a couple of nice photos hanging around, from National Train Day 2012.  I got to the Fort Worth Intermodal Transportation Center only after things were already winding down, but there was an interesting pair of locomotives sitting on a track normally used for AMTRAK services.

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I prefer to travel by rail, when I can.  So why not make a list of the trips I've taken?  Most of these, especially the long-distance ones, are since 2000.  I'm sure it's not complete, & I haven't included airport trams or that sort of thing.

AMTRAK intercity routes (East/North-bound and West/South-bound trips)
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