Becky Fifield
Railroad Dreams: Danbury Railway Museum
If you mourn the destruction of the late, great Pennsylvania Station in NYC, you’ll find this glass heralding the coming of the new...
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Becky Fifield
Dec 31, 20152 min read
An Unfortunate Title for a “Great” Article on Penn Station
David W. Dunlap writes the rather fun Building Blocks column for The New York Times. On December 30, 2015, his contribution was titled...
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Becky Fifield
Dec 5, 20151 min read
Wanderlust Fodder: Atlas Obscura’s Interactive Map of Roadtrips in American Literature
Mr. I sent me a link recently to Atlas Obscura’s “The Obsessively Detailed Map of American Literature’s Most Epic Road Trips.” It is...
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Becky Fifield
Jun 10, 20142 min read
Transportation Tuesday – B&O Centenary Pageant, 1927
Ladies in nymph-like attire twirling and leaping through fields – sounds like the turn of the century pageantry movement to me. The...
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Becky Fifield
Jan 22, 20142 min read
Wanderlust Wednesday: Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Redux
Better known as the PATH, the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad began shuttling passengers through its cast iron tunnels between Manhattan...
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Becky Fifield
Dec 24, 20131 min read
Christmas Dinner on the Rails
Christmas generally takes us to Maryland. While the Amtrak train I take travels over the Pennsylvania Railroad into Baltimore’s Penn...
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Becky Fifield
Feb 26, 20132 min read
Transportation Tuesday: Move Madison Square Garden NOW
Commuters rush through the LIRR entrance corridor past artwork that evokes the original and only Pennsylvania Station. Andrew Leicester....
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Becky Fifield
Jan 29, 20132 min read
Transit Tuesday: How do you get to Annapolis without a car?
I was peeved. During my Christmas break in Maryland, a winter storm blew in on the day I’d picked to spend some time at the state...
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Becky Fifield
Jan 23, 20133 min read
Wanderlust Wednesday: Montreal
I spent a day in Montreal, QC last week. I had forgotten how cold it can be up north. I quickly relearned that northerners find ways to...
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Becky Fifield
Jan 15, 20132 min read
Transit Tuesday: The Walking City
Colleagues of mine were up from DC this week for the Alliance for Response NYC program “Community-Based Recovery After Superstorm Sandy”...
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Becky Fifield
Dec 18, 20122 min read
Transportation Tuesday: ICE from Munich to Bonn
Munich Hauptbahnhof. RL Fifield 2012. I had a crazy scheme for last week’s trip to Germany. My last visit was to Dusseldorf and Cologne....
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Becky Fifield
Dec 11, 20122 min read
Transit Tuesday: Munich Train Station
Hauptbahnhof. It has to be my favorite German word. Feeling adventurous, I decided to fly directly to Munich and check out the city...
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Becky Fifield
Oct 22, 20121 min read
Museum Monday: The London Transport Museum
Transit Tuesday is moving on in on Museum Monday. London Transport Museum. Old Metropolitan Railway Car. Photo: RL Fifield 2010. If I...
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Becky Fifield
Oct 16, 20122 min read
Transportation Tuesday: Two Loves Collide – Historic Preservation, Transportation, and the Sus
Sorry for the pun. Photo: r25 Productions. Flowers by Amanda’s in Havre de Grace. Since I was a little girl, driving into Havre de Grace...
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Becky Fifield
Oct 9, 20124 min read
Transit Tuesday: Rail – Stories of Our Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated
Call me a dreamer. A romantic. Impractical. Head in the clouds. One of those city folk (that’s hilarious, you should see where I grew...
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Becky Fifield
Sep 16, 20125 min read
Westward Ho! My Third Great Grandfather Travels, in 1851
Ancestry.com, as a genealogical tool, is a start for many doing genealogy. I see it as a way to sketch and share only. There are a lot of...
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Becky Fifield
Sep 4, 20121 min read
Transit Tuesday – The Elevated in NYC
The El still lives on in Chicago – I’m not sure that they could live without it. But the El once was a vital part of New York...
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Becky Fifield
Aug 8, 20122 min read
Wanderlust Wednesday: Cold Spring, NY
Cold Spring. RL Fifield 2012. Dr. V and I took the week off a couple of weeks ago, and finally followed through on a plan to go hiking....
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Becky Fifield
Aug 7, 20121 min read
Transportation Tuesday: Runaway!
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....
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Becky Fifield
Jul 24, 20121 min read
Transportation Tuesday: Fred Harvey Is Your Host
Fred Harvey was a British immigrant that brought high standards for trackside eating halls alongside the Atchinson, Topeka, and Santa Fe...
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