This part of my travels wasn’t really on rails, but I saw no point in screwing up the theme 🙂 I arrived in Portland, OR safe and sound on Friday the 23rd of June, my birthday, and when I deboarded the train, it was just over 90 degrees outside. It wasn’t humid, and aside from…
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Fat Guy on The Road – Concert Edition – By Adam
This past weekend, a long-time dream came true — I had the privilege of attending a concert by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of none other than John Williams. Anyone who was to look at the program for the evening would understandably wonder about my excitement, but the answer to that question, as…
Fat Guy on Rails Part 2 – A Travelogue by Adam
Of the great named passenger trains in the US of the mid-twentieth century, few names evoked such a sense of wonder or power as the Great Northern Railway’s “Empire Builder”. The Great Northern Railway was started by the late 19th-century rail entrepreneur, James J. Hill. He was known as the “Empire Builder” and the Railway’s…
Fat Guy on Rails Part 1 – A Travelogue by Adam
When you tell people that you’re going to take a train across country as part of a vacation, the responses come in a few forms. For the most part, thanks to the fact that I only have a few friends and even fewer hobbies, those closest to me were not surprised at all by this…