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Teenager gets to play trains in Chicago

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Oct 25th 2008 4:00PM

It appears that three Metra engineers in Chicago are under investigation for allowing a teenager into the cabs of locomotives and even operate trains. The Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation, as Metra is formally known, operates ...
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National Train Day

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted May 7th 2008 12:00PM

My son Jared, like a lot of kids, is totally into trains. We've been to the California and Nevada state train museums in Sacramento and Carson City and have plans to visit a lot more of the rail-related attractions in Northern California. If you're ...
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Visiting the railroad museum

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Feb 24th 2008 5:03PM

One of the things we did while in the Lake Tahoe area was visit the Nevada State Railroad museum. Given Jared's chosen career path, I'm ashamed to say that this is the first time we've been to a railroad museum. We haven't even been to the California ...
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Career Choices

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Feb 16th 2008 11:57AM

When I was in high school, I had grand plans to become an electronics engineer. I was going to go to the University of Illinois for my undergraduate degree, followed by graduate work at MIT. I was going to design computers and robots and all manner ...
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Playing trains -- for real

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jan 11th 2008 11:28AM

We are very lucky in that there is a local model railroading club with a huge train layout that allows kids (big and small) to come watch their trains rolling about. We can run over there any Saturday and the kids can watch the trains climb mountains ...
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Metro-North Railway really does deliver

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Aug 6th 2007 12:25PM

The Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company in New York, commonly called, simply, the Metro-North, is a commuter rail system serving New York City, northern New York State, and parts of Connecticut. One of the rail line's slogans, found on posters on ...
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Blogging Baby City Guides: San Francisco

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Nov 10th 2006 12:02PM

We'll start the Blogging Baby City Guides series off with my own hometown -- San Francisco. San Francisco has a lot going for it, for kids and families, as well as the more worldly traveler. I'll avoid the more well-known tourist traps and ...
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