My new conductor's cap

I've just joined the official correspondent's corps of TrainWeb/RailNet, the nation's largest rail buff Internet forum, as a "Field Reporter."

Actually, the job will consist mostly of repackaging, in TrainWeb style, future Reluctant Blogger blogposts on my train travels -- you'll see them here as well as there. But I'll also be going out on the high iron with increased frequency to exercise my press credentials.

I won't be writing merely about life aboard trains, but also will yarn about my adventures during stopovers and at destinations. (My first effort is here.)

Of course there will be photographs, lots of them.

Come along for the ride.