Becky Fifield
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
Nov 5, 20132 min read
Transit Tuesday: Maryland *facepalm*
OK, we all know it, I’m obnoxiously devoted to my home state. So when I read current “transit” news about Maryland transportation...
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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
Feb 21, 20132 min read
Overheard in the Subway…
Much of NYC’s life takes place underground. Last Tuesday was a holiday for my place of work, and I used the morning to get some errands...
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Becky Fifield
Feb 12, 20131 min read
Transit Tuesday: Grand By Design Exhibition at Grand Central
After a boozy brunch with Dr. V’s cousins, we wandered up the sunny side of the street to Grand Central Terminal, celebrating its 100th...
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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
Dec 5, 20122 min read
Wanderlust Wednesday – Worcester, Massachusetts, by way of Springfield
Answer: Corsets. The Royal Worcester Corset Factory was the largest U.S. employer of women in 1908. Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary....
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Becky Fifield
Dec 3, 20122 min read
Museum Monday – Here Come the Trains Again: Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
Once again Transit Tuesday is busting in on Museum Monday. RL Fifield 2012. The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is located in Strasburg,...
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Becky Fifield
Nov 20, 20122 min read
Transportation Tuesday: Amtrak’s Quiet Car
I was putting together another post on Amtrak when I stumbled across a New York Times Opinion on Amtrak’s Quiet Car by Tim Krieder. The...
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Becky Fifield
Nov 14, 20122 min read
Wanderlust Wednesday: A Speedy Trip to Ottawa
Work took me kicking and screaming to Ottawa this week. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of Canada. It was just a chock a block week and...
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Becky Fifield
Oct 24, 20122 min read
Wanderlust Wednesday: The Johnstown Inclined Plane
People generally know one thing about Johnstown, PA: the flood. The Johnstown Flood National Memorial is located on the rim of the former...
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Becky Fifield
Oct 23, 20121 min read
Transit Tuesday: City Hall Station
On the top of my list of cool things to do in New York City: visit City Hall Station, the abandoned star of the New York city subway...
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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 17, 20123 min read
Wanderlust Wednesday: The Yuengling Brewery in Pottsville, Pennsylvania
Beer. Mmmm. Recently, my friend Ms McC and I travelled to Maryland for a eighteenth century event at Fort Frederick State Park (see my...
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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 2, 20121 min read
Transit Tuesday: More Griping about Penn Station
Inari sushi – sweetened deep fried tofu skin stuffed with rice dressed with rice vinegar, salt, and sugar. Photo by miwa_in_oz There is...
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Becky Fifield
Sep 18, 20121 min read
Transportation Tuesday: The B & O Railroad Museum
RL Fifield 2009. A fantastic collection in an incredible building tell the epic story of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The 1884...
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Becky Fifield
Sep 11, 20121 min read
Transportation Tuesday: A Moment on the Baltimore and Ohio
I was inspired by this salted paper print from the 1850s of people posing for a photograph on a Baltimore and Ohio engine. I thought...
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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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