Yes, I’m having an incredible amount of fun with this trip. And I had this one spot planned for a few years. In 2022, I found a secluded area along the Zim Smith nature trail in Round Lake. The then-Canadian Pacific Holiday Train HAD to pass this location from Mechanicville to get to its next…
Read MoreMy 2024 CPKC Holiday Train Chase: Albany in the Morning
Day 3 of my Holiday Train chase. And I have to get up early. Rise and shine. This will be a tricky part of the train chase, in that I can’t be sure that my timing will be accurate. And in the end, it wasn’t … until it was. I shall explain. The Holiday Train…
Read MoreMy 2024 CPKC Holiday Train Chase: Sherbrooke
Day 2 of my Holiday Train chase, and this time I’m heading from Montreal to Sherbrooke. And how I made it through this leg of the journey is completely beyond me. But seven angels must have kept watch over me that day. Let me explain. I left my Montreal motel at about 11:30 a.m., with…
Read MoreMy 2024 CPKC Holiday Train Chase: Montreal
I have several traditions in my life. For me, the holiday season begins when I see a brilliantly-illuminated, holiday-decorated, diesel-powered locomotive and two dozen lit-up boxcars rolling through New York. For me, the Christmas season does not commence until I actually get a photo of the CPKC Holiday Train. And that’s the plan this year.…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, November 23 2024
Hi everyone. Normally I would be up on a Saturday morning, get my cup of breakfast energy, and write this blog. But this blog is being penned on Friday (and posted today) because I’m out chasing the CPKC Holiday Train, and I don’t want to be late for the next stop. That being said, any…
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Thoughts while packing for a train chase
By the time you read today’s blog post, I’ll be on my way for the 2024 CPKC Holiday Train chase. I’m planning several stops over the next few days, and I’ve got a TON of thoughts on my mind as I prepare. So please bear with me on this. CPKC Holiday Train 2024 … let’s…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Someone’s Covering the Will-O-Bees
The Will-O-Bees were a three-member folk trio who, in the 1960’s, recorded several pop songs. Some of them actually became big national and international hits – albeit when someone ELSE recorded those same songs. Let me explain. The Will-O-Bees – former high school classmates Robert Merchanthouse and Janet Blossom, along with close friend Steven Porter…
Read MoreRevell Model Kits: Building childhood memories
This article was originally written by Chuck Miller for Toy Collector Magazine, January 2008. The memories are still strong for model kit builders – the accomplishment of working with tiny plastic parts, plucked like fruit from a styrene tree, assembled with a tube of tacky-sweet airplane glue, gobs of which would inevitably stain your clothes…
Read More“And what do YOU want for Christmas, little boy?”
I’m less than a week away from my 2024 CPKC Holiday Train chase. I’ve narrowed down my camera gear to the essentials – one digital (my Nikon Df) and three film (my Nikon F2S “Nikon Athena,” my medium-format Rolleiflex Automat MX, and my Krasnogorsk FT-2 super-ultra-wide “Raskolnikov”). I’ve checked out locations for shooting spots and…
Read MoreI swore I wasn’t going to do this again. And here I am, doing it again.
I’ve built several adult-level latch hook rugs in the past few years, and after completing them, I’ve entered them in competitions and sold them at charity auctions. And after the last one I built – a gigantic sunflower – I believed I was complete. Done. Finito. I donated my leftover yarn to an arts collective…
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