Monthly Archives: February 2010

10th Avenue

SW 10th Avenue, Portland, OR, September 2009. Kodak TMY.
Portland really is a transportation city. It seems that we can never have enough different modes of transportation, much less use them as officially intended. We have light rail that behaves like a metro, commuter trains trying to behave like light rail, and last but not least

Review: Classic Steam: Timeless Photographs of North American Steam Railroading

Classic Steam: Timeless Photographs of North American Steam Railroading
By John Gruber. Forward by William L. Withun. Fall River Press, 387 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10016; http://www.sterlingpublishing.com/imprints?imprint=Fall+River+Press; 12.25 x 12.8 in; hardbound; 224 pages, 43 color and 248 b/w photos, $19.98
The steam era of railroading in North America remains one of the most