Cascade Range of California and Oregon
In another life I had time to ride freight trains around the West, through thousands of miles of scenery that
Read moreIn another life I had time to ride freight trains around the West, through thousands of miles of scenery that
Read moreAfter 17 months — too long a time — I was back sticking a thumb in DHS’s eye. In June
Read moreFor three days in 2003 I had relentlessly pushed a rental car through the splendors of western Colorado, what they
Read moreAfter six years, I saw the Colorado outlaw known as TTK again in Fort Collins, Colorado. I’d slept behind a
Read moreIt had been nearly a year since my ecstatic daylight ride through the Wind River Canyon of Wyoming. I flew
Read moreThere are few experiences sadder than returning to a Western railroad yard 12 years later. In 1993, starting out of
Read moreMy plan was to hit two separate lines, the Royal Gorge route and the Santa Fe’s Raton Pass route. The
Read moreI’ve been traveling in an unorthodox manner for 30 years. When vacation comes, I’m apt to jump a freight train
Read moreIt was time for a modest day trip to escape my burdens: I had two commitments in the East Bay
Read moreThere are better places than Richmond to hang out in after midnight. I was reluctantly eyeballing the BNSF yard in
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