Posted on August 6, 2009 by offthebeatentrack
TACOMA, Wash. – I didn’t blog yesterday for two reasons. First, I spent most of the day fixing incorrect timestamps on the photos I took in Chicago, because I forgot to reset the time zone. It may seem trivial, but you’ll notice that the photoset of the trip is presented in chronological order. Since I’m [...]
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Posted on July 31, 2009 by offthebeatentrack
MANASSAS, Va. – That’s the view at the moment from inside Roomette 7 on the Cardinal.
It’s a pretty tight space, but not much more so than the Superliner Roomette I had on the California Zephyr last year. I’ll have that same accommodation on the Empire Builder to Seattle on Monday, and again on the Coast [...]
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Posted on August 11, 2008 by offthebeatentrack
SAN MATEO, Calif. – It took a mighty long time, but I’ve finally made it to the Bay Area.
I last blogged when the train left Colfax. Soon after that, we were given permission by Union Pacific to divert onto a different track and pass the freight train that had been delaying us so much.
We ended [...]
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Posted on August 10, 2008 by offthebeatentrack
WINNEMUCCA, Nev. – As was the case yesterday, I set the alarm clock this morning for 5:45 a.m., but it never went off.
That’s because the sun woke me up 15 minutes early, as it began to creep over the mountains in the Great Basin. Though part of me definitely wanted to sleep some more, the [...]
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Posted on August 10, 2008 by offthebeatentrack
(Did you really expect me to use anything else for the headline?)
We finally reached Denver at around 11:30 a.m. MT. We spent about 20 minutes there, during which time the train was cleaned a bit and some supplies were restocked. We also got newspapers delivered, in this case the Rocky Mountain News.
I was a bit [...]
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Posted on August 9, 2008 by offthebeatentrack
OSCEOLA, Iowa – A couple of things happened this afternoon that were reasons to pause and think for a while.
The less prosaic events were delays, a few of which were considerable. Two were the result of stop signals on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe-owned tracks, while a third was the result of tugboats traveling on [...]
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Posted on August 8, 2008 by offthebeatentrack
CHICAGO – Now for the main course.
For as much as I enjoyed my time in Chicago and am looking forward to visiting the Bay Area, the centerpiece of the trip starts now as I sit in Superliner Roomette 7 of Car 531 on the California Zephyr en route to Emeryville, Calif.
I’m on the left side [...]
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Posted on August 6, 2008 by offthebeatentrack
CONNELLSVILLE, Pa. – You know you’re really in the countryside when you have no cell phone signal whatsoever. Miles and miles with nothing but the little X next to the power pole in the upper-right hand corner of the screen, even though you’re technically in the same state as the wired metropolis you call home.
Such [...]
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