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Eating Clam Chowder in the lower level of Grand Central tonight. A homeless black woman is staring at me from the next table.  "Hey b...

I was standing against the wall in Grand Central on Saturday when a woman approached me and asked, "Habla Espanol?" I told her ...

Tonight in Grand Central at 25 track (Operations Office): Operations Manager: Mr. McDonough, we need you and your engineer to bring 10 dea...

So, I'm snowed in during a blizzard with nothing to do...and I started thinking about this poor neglected blog.  I'm sorry that I ha...

I had an Asian woman get on my train in West Haven today and she handed me this ticket. Her English wasn't very good, so I explained ...

Early this morning on the carpool ride home:   Engineer: Hey Bobby, that song on the radio... Isn't that Bachman-Turner Overdrive? ...

I'm convinced that there is something or someone other-worldly guiding my connection to the Dr. Stanley Milgram's 1961/1962  "O...

On my train home tonight, a middle-aged man startled from a drunken slumber and hazily looked around in a panic. He spotted me from the co...

Stress is... Being a conductor on a six car train full of drunk and disorderly passengers at 2am...then discovering there's an electric...

On Saturday, I came upon a sobbing, heart broken, 5 year old girl while collecting tickets. Her father explained that his daughter droppe...

Dear Passengers, Please put the pitchfork and lanterns down.   I come in peace First, let me explain that the train crews are on yo...

Train 1575: My train is held in Fairfield because the traffic is stopped ahead due to a trespasser walking in front of an Amtrak train. He...

Lest we think that train collisions on the New Haven Line are something new; here's a picture I pulled out of the ...

4/24/13: Somewhere around South Norwalk *Sheila, my assistant conductor, entered the head car of the train to collect tickets.  Just as sh...

Ahhhh...St. Paddy's Day.  Nothing makes me prouder of me Irish heritage than puddles of green vomit, and a good ol' donnybrook on a ...

October 16th :  A guy boards my train in New Haven and when he opens his wallet, I see a yellow "Post It" note glued to his cred...

Due to the recent article in the New Haven Register, I am rerunning this post which originally appeared in March of 2006: Something shoc...

"So....Where are you going tonight?" Sometimes the question doesn't even need to be asked. Take the hoards of people dressed...

Note to self:  Sometimes I'm naive. Whenever I'm walking along the tracks, I notice copious amounts of plastic water bottles fil...