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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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April 2018 Lehigh Valley Branchlines

April 30, 2018 Ed KapuscinskiPhotosLeave a comment

This spring brought a second trip to the Lehigh Valley. This time was focused on chasing the Cement Local and meeting a legend. Lunch with “Big Mike” Bednar was clearly the high point, but as far as this blog goes, there were no real photos of that.

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“Spring” 2018 Trip to Strasburg, The Lehigh Valley, and the Reading & Northern

March 29, 2018March 30, 2018 Ed KapuscinskiPhotos, VideosLeave a comment

This year’s big spring railfanning trip included a ride on the Lancaster Oxford & Southern motor car, a tour of the Lehigh Valley and some time at the heart of the R&N.

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Railfanning Around The 2017 N Scale Enthusiast Convention in Pittsburgh

June 26, 2017June 29, 2017 Ed KapuscinskiPhotosLeave a comment

The 2017 N Scale Enthusiast convention was held at the Station Square Sheraton in Pittsburgh, providing a great base of operations for some railfanning around the convention activities. In addition to rail photos, I also took a few of the city.

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Spent some time in NEPA, April 2017, Part 2

May 7, 2017 Ed KapuscinskiPhotos, VideosLeave a comment

Continuing on from Part 1, this day’s activities focused on the Reading and Northern.

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Spent some time in NEPA, April 2017, Part 1

May 5, 2017 Ed KapuscinskiPhotos, Videos1 Comment

Hearing my friend Ryan’s tales of Northeastern PA enticed us to go spend a weekend up that way seeing what there was to see. Turns out, the answer was a bunch of great stuff.

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Pittsburgh, Fall of 2016

April 18, 2017 Ed KapuscinskiPhotos, UncategorizedLeave a comment

My friend Ben, who I’ve mentioned a number of times here is a Pittsburgh boy. Consequently, when contemplating railfanning trip destinations, the Steel City frequently comes up. When planning a trip for the fall of 2016, he wanted to show off more of the city he loves, and especially the Conemaugh Line he’s planning to model.

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Good Friday Railfanning 2015: The CSX Hanover Sub and NS Lurgan Line

April 3, 2015January 19, 2021 Ed KapuscinskiPhotosLeave a comment

My friends Ben, Sean and I have a yearly tradition of going out railfanning on Good Friday. This year, at Sean’s excellent suggestion, we set our sights on CSX’s Hanover Subdivision.

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Fall 2014 Middle Division Trip Part 2: Sunday

September 28, 2014April 27, 2016 Ed KapuscinskiPhotosLeave a comment

Picking up from the previous day’s excitement, this one started with a run in with a friend, and then a chase for the ages up the west slope. It then continued with another great chase for some rare mileage, and finally a few minutes at Lewistown, for yet another Conrail classic unit.

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Fall 2014 Middle Division Trip Part 1: Saturday

September 27, 2014July 31, 2019 Ed KapuscinskiPhotosLeave a comment

My friend Russ organized a railfan weekend heading out to the NS Pittsburgh Line at the end of September, and it turned out to be the best weekend of railfanning that I’ve had in a long time.

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