DERAILED

Like any service industry, the railroad gets a lot of letters of complaint. Passengers write to complain about late trains, dirty trains, ho...

No, the above picture is not me! David is a mentally challenged man who lives in town. He can be regularly seen pedaling his bicycle up and ...

Friday 08/04/2006-02:22 a.m. New Haven. Last stop. If this blog has given you the impression that my job is all glamour and celebrities, thi...

This past weekend, the editorial board at “Derailed” gathered together in our conference room around a ridiculously long oak table. At the h...

I returned to work on Tuesday after a week's vacation. When I got to the sign-in room in New Haven, I found Bill, my regular engineer, l...

If you’re fond of sand dunes and salty air, Quaint little villages here and there You’re sure to fall in love with Old Cape Cod If you like ...

No, I didn’t have Sigmund Freud on the train, but I do sometimes wonder what he would have to say about my obsession with celebrity. I pic...

That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet." --From Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2) Last night I worked with an e...

As the reigning Conductor to the Stars, I am always looking over my shoulder. There’s always seems to be some upstart trying to unseat me ...

During the 1992 presidential campaign, then Governor Bill Clinton made a campaign stop in Grand Central. He was followed by a huge press c...

As you may have noticed, I haven’t written much lately. It seems that my blog obsession has fallen by the wayside (for the time being,) an...

Tickets! Tickets Please! I shout, as I walk down the aisle collecting tickets on an early morning Metro North train. A gentleman with whi...

My mother was an intelligent, well read women with a good vocabulary, but for some unknown reason, she had trouble saying words with the dou...

My wife left this article on my homepage...HA! HA! HA! http://www.comcast.net/news/health/index.jsp?cat=HEALTHWELLNESS&fn=/2006/06/26/42...

A bridge on Amtrak’s Hell Gate branch got stuck in the upright position and our train was instructed to accept all of Amtrak’s passengers....

I stopped by the local convenience store after dropping my daughters off at school. I poured myself a cup of coffee, picked up the newspaper...

A familiar looking woman got on the train in Green’s Farms. She looked like your average Fairfield County wife, decked out in preppy clothes...

I was driving my daughters to school last week, when my daughter C said, Daddy...today we’re going to see “The Movie.” “What movie is that?”...

On a Sunday afternoon in 1958, my parents piled their eight kids into their car, (this was before I was born) and drove up to Wallingford ...

Actor/Director Ron Howard is usually on the top of other New Haven Line Conductor’s list of celebrity sightings and it had frustrated me tha...