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A paper cup of champagne and hazelnut coffee never tasted so sweet.

Why the early a.m. potable? Trainjotting turns 2 today! Yes, it was exactly 730 days ago that we gingerly stepped into the blogosphere and posted a few thousand words from Engine Bob about why the crawl through Grand Central is so painstakingly slow, and another taking Metro-North to task for its dodgy “5:59 Rule” about what constitutes an “on-time train”–an issue that’s emerged as something of a leitmotif on these cyberpages.

Thanks to our intrepid correspondents over the past two years, including Straphanger Joe, Foot It Tim, Engine Bob, JerseyJim, PeterFromPort, Conductor Bobby, Saugatucker, CT Rider and G. Francis.

Year Three ambitions include a long overdue redesign, a correspondent who’s actually a female, and more rants about slow trains, literary critiques of Mileposts, and lonely dispatches about walking and/or cycling to the station out there in Car Culture.

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