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Chasing the Wilmington & Western on Halloween 2020

January 6, 2021 Ed KapuscinskiPhotos

What’s better than doing some trick or treating with a steam engine? Getting to go do it with a friend! 2020 has seen a real deficit of social railfanning. Luckily, the W&W is in my friend Dave’s back yard and he was just getting off of work when the chase was on.

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My last Conrail Sighting: December 27, 2011

May 15, 2020 Ed KapuscinskiPhotos

I last saw a Conrail unit “in the wild” not quite ten years ago in 2011. Fittingly enough, it was in the place I remember visiting when I was a kid and that was instrumental in instilling my love of Conrail in me: Pavonia Yard in Camden NJ.

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Quarantine Retrospective: 2009

May 15, 2020 Ed KapuscinskiPhotos

Since we shouldn’t be going out I’ve been going through some photos from my photo library that I took over ten years ago. Here are a few.

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Escaping Quarantine to Catch Y134 at Locust Point

April 20, 2020 Ed KapuscinskiPhotos

We live in weird times. Covid-19 has changed many things in our lives. The name of the game currently is “social distancing”, keeping your contact with people to an absolute minimum. That means, generally, staying the f**k home. However, it was a beautiful day, I just got new tires, and I needed to get some fresh air.

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Perryville at Night

October 10, 2019October 10, 2019 Ed KapuscinskiPhotos
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Riding the Everett During the 2019 N Scale Weekend

August 5, 2019August 5, 2019 Ed KapuscinskiPhotos

One of the great things about the Altoona N Scale Weekend is its location deep in the heart of railroad country. The Everett provides a great addition to the mainline action on the Pittsburgh Line.

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The Northern Central Railway & The Stewartstown, July 2019

July 16, 2019 Ed KapuscinskiPhotos

My friend Steve is a relatively (8 months) new dad. So when he says “hey, I’m free for a Saturday, lets go railfanning”, you go! We decided to go shoot some fish in a barrel in Southern York County.

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Jim Thorpe, Late Spring 2019

May 30, 2019May 31, 2019 Ed KapuscinskiPhotos

Our good friends have access to a place up in Jim Thorpe and after a very busy few months we were very lucky to get a few days there to hang out and relax. Of course, there happens to be a train ride there and my understanding friends went along with my plan to check it out.

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A Sunny March Afternoon on the CSX Philly Sub

March 25, 2019July 29, 2019 Ed KapuscinskiPhotosLeave a comment

I had a chance to get out for a few hours in my backyard and got to enjoy a beautiful cloudless March day.

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An afternoon in Indianapolis

March 15, 2019March 16, 2019 Ed KapuscinskiPhotosLeave a comment

Work recently took me to Indianapolis and my flight schedule meant I had a few hours to see the local sights. I saw quite a bit.

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