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...need to know a bogie from a driving wheel to feel the romantic tug of the age of steam-train travel. A day spent aboard England's Cathedrals Express, chuffing from London to spired cities like Salisbury, Canterbury or Bath and back, is a mighty whiff of postwar nostalgia - and a glimpse into the obsessive otherworld of the trainspotters, who track locomotives the way some folks watch birds. The service is run by the tiny Steam Dreams company with the aid of volunteers who maintain vintage locomotives like the 1945-built Bodmin. Its 1960s cars are wood-paneled, the seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Steamy Romance | 11/23/2003 | See Source »

More importantly, their bass player is taking a three month sabbatical from the band so he can train to, well, “become a sheepdog...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review: British Sea Power | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

Delaney-Smith helped guide the USA Basketball Championships for Young Women team (7-1) to a gold medal in the inaugural FIBA World Championships for Young Women, held from July 25 to Aug. 3. It took roughly 38 hours of travel by plane, train and bus to reach the playing site in Sibenik, Croatia...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Assistant on the Far Side of the World | 11/19/2003 | See Source »

...absolutely incredible—we took a pulley-type train straight up halfway up the mountain,” said Bell of the Alps. “Then we got out and were chair-lifted up in twos to the top of the mountain. The chair lift was rather frightening considering we were thousands of feet up in the air. As [sophomore Shana Franklin and I] were going up the chair lift, we labeled different sections of the Alps below us as ‘dangerous,’ ‘painful’ and ‘certain...

Author: By Megha Parekh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Team Gets Joie De Basketball | 11/19/2003 | See Source »

...served as a fascinating contrast to the scenes in which he abandoned his cheer to sob on the sofa. He also provided one of the play’s highlights in his reading of Brodie’s script; as he read, he supplied every element from steam-train noises to falsetto voices...

Author: By Alexandra D. Hoffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review: 'Real Thing' Smiles on Winthrop | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

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