Posts Tagged ‘trains’
Come On Ride It (The Train)
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courtesy of ‘cliff1066â�¢’
Love trains? Love Union Station? Love actor Taye Diggs? Head down to Union Station on May 8 between 11 and 4 for National Train Day, Amtrak’s annual celebration of trains and rail travel. There will be exhibits and performances to see, you can check out various trains and model trains while you’re there, [...]
VA gets $75M, MD $70M for Railway Improvements
‘Tomix EF66 41 Hauling Hayabusa’
courtesy of ‘foolish adler’
Both Virginia and Maryland will received funds from the federal government’s American Reinvestment and Recovery Act to improve local railway infrastructure and services.
Virginia’s $75 million dollars in funding will build an additional 11 mile track to the current railway service between Woodbridge and Quantico. The new track will [...]
Celebrate National Train Day at Union Station
‘Locomotive’
courtesy of ‘wfyurasko’
Calling all trainiacs! This Saturday is National Train Day, and lucky you– DC is home to one of the biggest events to celebrate it! From 10 AM to 3 PM, head over to Union Station to meet American Idol’s Randy Jackson (not sure how he’s related to trains, but that’s cool), listen to some [...]
MARC Commuter Alert: Major Delays on Penn Line
Via WaPo’s Get There blog, an alert for MARC Penn Line Riders: major electrical system damage near Landover has left only one of three tracks open for inbound and outbound commuter trains, so MARC’s going to be a mess.
MTA MD’s official MARC alert page says Metro will honor MARC tickets to New Carrollton to get [...]
Extended Weekend: What to Do?
Jive Turkey, courtesy of F1RSTBORN
In town for the holidays and not a cook? Looking for some dining options other than wrestling with a big ol’ Butterball and your mom yammering in your ear? Hosting relatives and looking for things to get them out of the house? Or are you an international visitor and don’t celebrate [...]
Talkin’ Transit: Tysons and Trains
DSC_9921, courtesy of juan.barredo
Two items of interest today for commuters on both sides of the Potomac: Tysons Corner and MARC.
Tysons Corner. It’s a name that sends shivers up most North Virginian commuters’ spines. Notorious for traffic flow “issues” and the spawning of language more suitable for “R” rated movies, the Tysons area is one big, [...]
