I should have spent today packing for a two week trip home to Alaska that begins tomorrow, but instead I let my friend John Kittredge sucker me into another day trackside.

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Cold rain is soaking us as we wait to board one of the last conventional passenger trains to Pittsfield. In 1966 I was still enthusiastic about the New Haven. I also had a sense that the FL9s wou... (more)