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Marcel has the best blogroll, where I discover the following blogs about trains, most with a fairly specific focus:

• Alta Velocidad Ferroviaria is a Spanish-language blog about high-speed rail.
• Amtrak Tracking for My Commute Between New York City and Philadelphia‘s title is self-explanatory — it started as a way of tracking Amtrak’s on-time performance — but has latterly morphed into a blog on general Amtrak news. The reason? “I no longer commute from Philly to NYC. I have recently moved to Manhattan. At $1008/mo for a monthly pass it’s now cheaper to live in NYC than commute via Amtrak.” (The author is only slightly kidding.)
• Confessions of a Train Geek is a railfanning blog focusing on Atlantic Canada; some nice photos there.
• Erik’s Rail News — media stories about trains.
• Getting There engages in political advocacy.
• Los Angeles Transportation Headlines is compiled by Los Angeles County Metro’s Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive.
• Riding the Rails, by Palm Beach Post reporter Tanya Wragg, chronicles her commutes on Tri-Rail; it ended last March.
• The Railfan hasn’t been updated since the summer; it seems to be based in the Midwest.
• Slow Train Comin’ is a New Zealander’s rail blog that often focuses on the shortcomings of Auckland’s commuter rail service.
• TGV Rhin-Rhône is about the TGV line under construction between Dijon and Mulhouse; in French.
• Ticket Punch is a passenger rail advocacy blog.
• Zug & Eisenbahn Blog is a rather laconic German-language blog, mostly, it appears, covering European railways.