Becky Fifield
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 31, 2012
- 2 min
Transportation Tuesday: Amtrak Fiction
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...
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Becky Fifield
- Jul 24, 2012
- 1 min
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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Becky Fifield
- Jul 3, 2012
- 1 min
Transit Tuesday – Cyril E. Power
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...
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Becky Fifield
- Jun 22, 2012
- 1 min
Crossing the Susquehanna
I was compiling a list of objects with a Maryland theme from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection for the fun of it. My mother’s...
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Becky Fifield
- Jun 12, 2012
- 2 min
Transportation Tuesday – The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel
Group listening to Bob Diamond of BHRA in the tunnel under Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn. RL Fifield, 2010. Until December 2010, at the...
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Becky Fifield
- May 29, 2012
- 1 min
Transportation Tuesday: The Bridges of Cleveland
Passing under the lift bridge serving the Norfolk & Southern Railroad at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. RL Fifield, 2012. There’s a...
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Becky Fifield
- May 22, 2012
- 2 min
Transit Tuesday – Central Railroad of New Jersey’s Communipaw Terminal
CNJRR Train Shed and Communipaw Terminal. RL Fifield, 2011. Staring out over New York Harbor, the Central Railroad of New Jersey’s...
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Becky Fifield
- May 8, 2012
- 1 min
Transit Tuesday – How I would have loved to take the train to Albuquerque…
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...
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Becky Fifield
- Apr 17, 2012
- 2 min
Transit Tuesday: The Train Station
Travel by Train, Denver Colorado. RL Fifield photo, 2007. Bumping around the Internet, I came upon this group of images of North American...
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Becky Fifield
- Apr 17, 2012
- 2 min
Transit Tuesday: The Train Station
Travel by Train, Denver Colorado. RL Fifield photo, 2007. Bumping around the Internet, I came upon this group of images of North American...
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Becky Fifield
- Apr 10, 2012
- 2 min
Transit Tuesday: New York Penn Station
New York Penn Station, thy name is Melancholy. New York’s Pennsylvania Station. Lost, 1963. Photo credit: New York Public Library via...
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Becky Fifield
- Apr 8, 2012
- 1 min
Railroads: What’s Your Sign?
Cafe Witteveen (run by friend Jeremy W.) featured a website dedicated to the insignias of railroads long gone by. Honoring my Maryland...
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Becky Fifield
- Apr 8, 2012
- 1 min
Railroads: What’s Your Sign?
Cafe Witteveen (run by friend Jeremy W.) featured a website dedicated to the insignias of railroads long gone by. Honoring my Maryland...
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Becky Fifield
- Mar 20, 2012
- 2 min
Transit Tuesday: Good news in Washington DC. Streetcars are back, Baby
I prefer rehabbed PCCs, but at least it’s a streetcar! Photo credit: mariordo59 via Visual hunt / CC BY-SA Streetcar service ended in...
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