Tag: rails
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September 20, 2007 08:14 AM EDT --
I don’t think I’m your typical woman. A key clue is that my closet, a very small one by most standards, is not filled with shoes.
I have about six pairs of shoes that . . . more
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July 11, 2006 11:41 AM EDT --
The Associated Press reports seven explosions hit Bombay's commuter rail network during rush hour Tuesday evening, killing as many as 100 people:
Doors and windows were blown off the train cars, and . . . more
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August 03, 2007 09:05 AM EDT --
During a recent vacation trip to Ohio my wife and I decided to camp for several days at North Bend State Park in Cairo WV, near the town where I was born, West Union. We are very familiar . . . more
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February 11, 2008 12:54 AM EST --
Many of you have responded to some of my posts about train travel with curiosity about the experience, expressing a desire to take your next vacation by rail. For those of you considering taking an overnight . . . more
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February 08, 2008 10:16 AM EST --
We're getting ready to drive to the train station to embark on our Amtrak family adventure. My daughter is already in the mood at 7am, wearing her Junior Conductor hat that Amtrak gave us when we picked . . . more
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February 08, 2008 04:19 PM EST --
As we pass through Ventura, views of the Southern California Coast reveal themselves to us with a bang. On some parts of the route, the train tracks get closer to the ocean than you could get on foot. . . . more
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February 08, 2008 10:47 PM EST --
In the hour that we had between reaching our destination and catching the train home, we quickly found an espresso bar in San Luis Obispo, so we could hurriedly upload the blog entries from our northbound . . . more
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January 15, 2006 09:50 PM EST --
John Fawcett's journey began on a freezing night in February 1936, riding the blinds of a crack passenger train. It was to change the 16-year-old's life forever. The son of a prosperous ophthalmologist . . . more
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December 30, 2006 11:55 AM EST --
I can hear him, this ghost on my shoulder,
Pushing me on to do more, and I know,
He's a worker from somewhere, another age,
Somewhere I hope to never go,
Today this dark shop is all union, . . . more
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February 08, 2008 04:13 PM EST --
"Wowww…," my daughter exclaimed as we went through the canyons after the Chatsworth stop. We haven't even gotten to the scenic part and the view from our Amtrak car is already delighting . . . more
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February 08, 2008 04:27 PM EST --
There is still more incredible scenery from every window. We brought all of this "stuff" to entertain my daughter, but she's happy to be climbing around the train, visiting the café . . . more
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February 06, 2008 09:31 AM EST --
I'll be uploading photos and blog entries all day Friday, February 8th, from the Amtrak Surfliner, riding the rails up the dramatic Central California Coast, sharing my photos of the incredible views . . . more
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September 11, 2008 02:35 PM EDT --
When I was a kid my parents used to tell my brother and I a story about a place called "Bum's Tunnel". From the neighborhood they lived in as children they could walk up a stream to . . . more
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June 16, 2007 12:15 PM EDT --
When his father lost his job in 1931, Jim Mitchell saw his family slide to rock bottom in . . . more
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July 03, 2007 07:27 PM EDT --
The spike sits on a shelf opposite my desk, four inches of mottled iron with a square shank and L-shaped head tapering to a wedge. I picked it up on the Devil's Railroad in the heart of the Amazon . . . more
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December 06, 2007 07:52 AM EST --
I have had the privilege of meeting a lady well into her eighties, who is our home town version of the woman who made the Titantic movie so famous. She is astute and very active. She has lead one . . . more
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September 26, 2008 02:03 PM EDT --
In 1929, James San Jule's father was a successful businessman in Tulsa, Oklahoma. San Jule graduated from Tulsa Central High School and had been accepted at Amherst college in Massachusetts, . . . more
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October 18, 2007 04:04 PM EDT --
It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of Ruby on Rails ( Ror ). Of course, I still enjoy developing web applications with anything else available including Php, Asp, and Jsp.
When . . . more
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January 29, 2006 06:14 PM EST --
Arvel "Sunshine" Pearson's grandfather had living quarters behind the railroad station at Spadra, an Ozarks village five miles from Clarksville, Arkansas. Arvel's father died before . . . more
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April 05, 2008 01:18 AM EDT --
Radixweb is an Ahmedabad based IT company in India which offers Ruby on Rails Web Development Services . Our expert RoR developers can develop systems tailored to your every need and using the latest . . . more
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