Archive for the 'Metro' Category

Feds Say “Whoa, Nellie!” to Metro

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Well, well, well. Looks like the Feds aren’t buying Metro’s BS.

Danger Train III

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

Yet more photos from last Saturday’s outing.

This is one of the automated ticket dispensers.
The screen was very dim and difficult to read unless I stood close by to shadow it with my body. I also was rather annoyed at the error-trapping; a day-pass was two dollars, but when I put $1 in and […]

Danger Train II

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

Continuing the series based on photos taken during yesterday’s Danger Train outing, here’s several pictures of where the rail repeatedly crosses other roads in order to get from Main to Fannin. Several of these crossovers are at shallow angles, resulting in difficult and confusing crossings. Neal got one picture of a truck trapped […]

Danger Train I

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

I actually have enough material to comment and put pictures up for several days, so keep checking back. One point we all agreed on was that while we got some good pictures and found out many interesting things, there was much more we could have done, or gotten pictures of. This is […]

Danger Train Preview

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

I had a great time at the Danger Train outing yesterday! Quite tiring to this sedentary bureaucrat and my camera was full, so I bailed after the meal and went home to relax. Meeting with everyone was fun, and the food was good. What more could you ask for? […]