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Henry Kisor's articles as a TrainWeb field
reporter:
• September 6-7, 2012: Where Europe meets North America: VIA's Ocean
• August 6-7, 2012: Tour of the Line: 296 miles out and back on the Algoma Central
• June 19, 2012: A visit to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth
• April 3,
2012: Zephyr: Tracking a Dream Across America now in ebook format
• March 19-27,
2012: Back to the Z: My umpteenth trip on the Zephyr
• March 5-7,
2012: On the track of Old Abe: Riding Amtrak's Lincoln Service
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February 14,
2012: A capital ride on the Capitol Limited
• October 18, 2011: Track gang at
La Plata: Fixing the BNSF Transcon
• July
22, 2011: Riding the new and
improved
Agawa Canyon Tour Train
• April 4-9. 2011: A tale of two
hotels on the route of the Southwest Chief
• March 7-8, 2011: Short hops on
the Carolinian and a
Northeast Regional
• February 24, 2011: AmSnag: A new online
tool to help you find the lowest fares
• February 13, 2011: "All
Aboard" with Jim Loomis' guidebook to North American train
travel
• January 9-13, 2011: Two
Days
in the Big Easy from Chicago on Amtrak's City of New
Orleans
• March
3-10, 2010: Photos
from a
train trip to Arches and Canyonlands National Parks
Recent
rail travel blogposts:
• December 16, 2010: Planning
a ride on the City of New Orleans
• November 16, 2010: Airport
security woes a boon for Amtrak?
• November 12, 2010: Riding
the Capitol Limited to Washington, D.C.
• July 7, 2010: Glories
of the Alaska Railroad: Photographs
• July 4, 2010: Riding
the White Pass & Yukon Railway: Photographs
• June 21, 2010: Anchorage
to Seward on the Cruise Train
• June 20, 2010: Fairbanks
to Anchorage on the Denali Star
• May 27, 2010: Another
spur line faces oblivion
•
May 20, 2010: Last
call for the E&LS line to Ontonagon?
• March 10, 2010: A
visit to Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Utah
• March 6, 2010: Riding
the Zephyr to Grand Junction, Colorado
• March 1, 2010: Planning
a train trip to the Arches and Canyonlands
• February 2, 2010: From
L.A. to Chicago with a bad cold
• February 1, 2010: Sidetracked
in Los Angeles
• January 31, 2010: Riding
the Texas Eagle to Los Angeles
• January 23, 2010: Planning
a trip on the Texas Eagle
• December 13, 2009: Railborne
wanderlust strikes again
• October 17, 2009: Timekeeping
• October 4, 2009: Planning
a trip to the Arches and Canyonlands
• August 16, 2009: The
Man in Charge, continued
• June 16, 2009: The
joys of
train time
• January 15, 2009: Glenwood
Springs to Chicago on the Zephyr
• January 10, 2009: Chicago
to Glenwood Springs on the Zephyr
• November 20, 2008: At
the
Depot Inn and Suites in La Plata, Missouri
• November 18, 2008: All
aboard on No. 3 for La Plata, Missouri
• August 12, 2008: The
E&LS's Ontonagon Job
• June 25, 2008: Word
of
the day: "Gricer"
• February 19, 2008: Tickets,
please. Hands up, please."
• January 5, 2008: Through
the Big Hole at Donner Pass
• January 4, 2008: The
City of San Francisco, stuck on The Hill
• November 8, 2007: My
23rd trip on the California Zephyr
• November 4, 2007: Getting
ready for a ride on No. 5
• December 16, 2007: Grand
voyage on the GrandLuxe Express (Chicago Sun-Times)
• October 31, 2007: The
Canadian from Toronto to Vancouver, Part 4
• October 27, 2007: The
Canadian from Toronto to Vancouver, Part 3
• October 24, 2007: The
Canadian from Toronto to Vancouver, Part 2
• October 23, 2007: The
Canadian from Toronto to Vancouver, Part 1
Fellow TrainWeb field reporter Carl
Morrison took this shot of me at LAUPT a few minutes before I boarded
Amtrak's Southwest Chief for
Chicago in January, 2010, survival rations in hand.
About me:
I'm
a retired newspaper writer and editor and the author of seven books,
one of which is Zephyr: Tracking a
Dream Across America, about life aboard Amtrak's California Zephyr
in the early 1990s.
My wife, Debby, and I winter in Evanston, Illinois, on the
Metra North Line (Union Pacific, ex-Chicago & North Western), and
summer in Ontonagon, Michigan, on
the shore of Lake Superior at the northwest terminus of the Escanaba
& Lake Superior Railroad (ex-Milwaukee Road), about to be
abandoned.
We are lifetime train
travelers and every now and then I drag out my Bachmann G scale
Ten-Wheeler
trainset and set
it up on the basement floor for the grandchildren.
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