This post is not about servants. So much of the time when I refer to runaways, it’s in relation to indentured and enslaved women....

I’ve been working on a short story for years about a friendship slipping into an unfamiliar place. One of these days I’ll fish it out of...

Hagerstown? Where’s that? I recently attended a living history event at Fort Frederick State Park in Big Pool, Maryland. Restaurants are...

Yes, I’m a museum professional, but that doesn’t mean I don’t use museum databases to see objects I enjoy when I get home. I’m...

Transit and Museums? Two of my loves rolled up into one. Visitors to New York want to see the Empire State Building, Times Square, and...

Group listening to Bob Diamond of BHRA in the tunnel under Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn. RL Fifield, 2010. Until December 2010, at the...

Passing under the lift bridge serving the Norfolk & Southern Railroad at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. RL Fifield, 2012. There’s a...

Baa. Cool it, already. Photo: Imaginactory. John Wily wrote the motivational pamphlet A Treatise on the Propagation of Sheep, the...

CNJRR Train Shed and Communipaw Terminal. RL Fifield, 2011. Staring out over New York Harbor, the Central Railroad of New Jersey’s...

Preserved original stretch of the Lincoln Highway, between Rochelle and Geneva, Illinois. RL Fifield, 2005. First designated in 1913, the...

Preserved original stretch of the Lincoln Highway, between Rochelle and Geneva, Illinois. RL Fifield, 2005. First designated in 1913, the...

But instead, all I got was this tiny seat on a tin-can of an airplane. I investigated the details of how I would possibly get to...

RL Fifield photo, 2012. Dr. V and I got acquainted with the PATH route from 33rd St. to Hoboken thanks to our friends, Hoboken dwellers...

RL Fifield photo, 2012. Dr. V and I got acquainted with the PATH route from 33rd St. to Hoboken thanks to our friends, Hoboken dwellers...

Travel by Train, Denver Colorado. RL Fifield photo, 2007. Bumping around the Internet, I came upon this group of images of North American...

Travel by Train, Denver Colorado. RL Fifield photo, 2007. Bumping around the Internet, I came upon this group of images of North American...

New York Penn Station, thy name is Melancholy. New York’s Pennsylvania Station. Lost, 1963. Photo credit: New York Public Library via...

Grand Central Terminal. RL Fifield photo. When I leave the city, it’s either on a plane or a train. On a plane, you have little sense of...

Grand Central Terminal. RL Fifield photo. When I leave the city, it’s either on a plane or a train. On a plane, you have little sense of...

510 Spadina in the rain, Toronto, October, 2012. RL Fifield photo. During a short business trip to Toronto, I had the pleasure of getting...