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We're driving my older daughter to Newport, RI to tour Salve Regina University, and about to cross the bridge into Newport when I launch...

This is the scene that unfolded in front of my wife and I, as we returned home from my "return to work" physical following double-...

I spend a lot of time bashing the ne'er do wells who ride my trains, so today I want to praise Pvt. Luis Feliciano, Army-82nd Airborne. ...

08/29: An agitated man meets my train in Waterbury and asks what the fare is to Bridgeport. I tell him that it’s only $2.25 and he looks rel...

News came yesterday of the death of bestselling author Dominick Dunne. He was of 83. Mr. Dunne had been an occasional passenger on my train,...

If you happened to be listening to the railroad radio channel at 8PM on 08/13/09, this is what you would have heard: Train 1107: Metro North...

This whole Henry Louis Gates/Officer James Crowley controversy has got me thinking about two incidents that happened to me several years bac...

Embedded video from CNN Video Thanks for the link Marcellus .

It’s Friday afternoon and I’m standing outside a Connecticut Transit bus in Waterbury. A little guy who’s covered in paint, maybe 60-years o...

6/20-Train 6362- So this guy approaches me as I’m making my pre-departure announcements on a jam-packed Stamford local train in Grand Centra...

My bet was on the train...boy was I wrong.

In December of 1990, my wife and I purchased a brand new 1991 Acura Integra . It was one of the best purchases we ever made. Yesterday the ...

During the 19th and 20th centuries, the Naugatuck River Valley was one of the main manufacturing communities of New England. Brick factories...

Yes folks...it's that time of year again. The time of year when I ask you to go over to the Animation Magazine webpage , and vote for my...

Oh yeah... Well we can't understand Scots either!

Grab a bag of popcorn, a box of Junior Mints, and step into yesteryear. My sister Sheila sent me this newsreel video that dates back to the ...

A teddy bear killed my grandfather...at least that's the story I was told. The truth is a little more complicated. It was an unseasonab...

As all my fellow conductors know, my alter ego is "The Conductor to the Stars"; A near legendary railroad phenom, with an uncanny ...

Found this video on Sandi Kahn Shelton's blog (which I highly recommend). How long before this breaks out in Grand Central?

"Conductor," said the woman in a thick southern drawl, "Could ya' please tell me when we get to Grand Central? I can'...