When Marie and I vacated our Oakland apartment in the middle of the pandemic and moved to live full time in Providence (we each came into the relationship from opposite coasts) we did the move by train. I did live pics the whole way as #bunnigration (since imported here)

We also did a California Zephyr to Lake Shore Limited when we vacated our Oakland apartment after pandemic changed our work and home situations and we stopped living bicoastally. I imported the tweets which are tagged #bunnigration so you can check those too. #coastbunny

Tweeted it on the last site when I was. #bunnigration

There’s a thread tagged #bunnigration on the bird site which is a previous trip on a different rail line, also

The zephyr pics I took when we moved out of our Oakland apartment are tagged #bunnigration on the bird site

Through the Sheepfold and the Boston skyline is ahead. #bunnigration

I-495, Boston’s outer loop, is longer than the longest interstate in Rhode Island. #bunnigration

Anyway. We lost in Worcester. On to Medford. #bunnigration

Stymied at the first try. Trying again. Anyway, here’s CSX’s yard at Worcester as we pass #bunnigration

I feel like I was just here. (I chased a train here from Providence a few weeks ago) #bunnigration

Almost to Worcester. We pass Dark Brook lake #bunnigration

We’ll now descent toward the Connecticut River Valley. It’s interesting that New England isn’t even more strongly oriented along this, it’s most substantial river valley, than it is. #bunnigration

Topical, here’s the high point on I-90 east of South Dakota. #bunnigration

On a day where I can’t have a train into Boston at all, I’m thinking about what it would take to have a faster train. @ofsevit has spit balled this a couple times. #bunnigration twitter.com/ofsevit/status/106134607... https://twitter.com/ofsevit/status/1061346078119870465

I’ve only stopped in West Stockbridge once, July 2017, when my partner Amelia was still alive. Today we’ll just continue on. #bunnigration

I guess the Thruway’s gonna go cashless. Tag readers being hung over the lanes just east of Canaan tolls. We roll on toward Massachusetts. #bunnigration

Upgrade through a cut, then under the bridge for the Taconic Parkway ramp. New one under construction alongside. #bunnigration

Corn! Anyway, we skim through the E-ZPass lane, turn toward Boston and get on the Berkshire section of the Thruway. No Castleton Bridge today, road or rail, alas. #bunnigration

Marie collects me and we head for I-90, Mass Pike, and Worcester. #bunnigration

Marie’s gone off and will be back for me. Our next leg will take us to just outside Boston, with one stop, in Worcester, expected. #bunnigration

We wait and try to sort out the next step. #bunnigration

From here, we switch modes. I’ll keep sharing til we get to Providence but it’s gonna be less exciting. Anyway, if you’re enjoying this and you can donate, homeless Black trans women need your help. #bunnigration https://gf.me/u/yjnhtr

We clamber out of our sleeper and up to station level. All the signals ahead are red as we look out over the tracks. #bunnigration

Slowly we pull into the station. #bunnigration

The city skyline comes into view, and ... then we swing away from the gorgeous station now occupied by SEFCU, and cross the Hudson. #bunnigration

Downhill into Albany. Cute riverside park but it looks like the trail dead ends. #bunnigration

One more view to our west and a couple to the east. We pull out. Next stop is ours. #bunnigration

I’ve not spent time in Schenectady yet. Seems like it has a notable downtown. #bunnigration

Across the river and into Schenectady! #bunnigration

Another turbine hall; a quarry; another lock and dam. #bunnigration