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How High the Moon?

ByJim Loomis 07/13/201009/06/2014

I have no idea where or how – let alone why – the tradition started, but on the 2nd Saturday of July, a lot of people in Southern California head for the nearest main line to moon passing Amtrak trains. California has taken this goofy idea to a scale unimagined anywhere else, but it’s by…

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Get Thee Behind My Behind, Satan!

ByJim Loomis 04/10/200911/07/2014

It was tolerated if not amusing for 29 years. And it’s also taken on a life of its own. And that is the traditional mooning of Amtrak trains which was started way back in 1980 by a relative handful of people. Since then, and for reasons unknown (to me, anyway), the second Saturday in July…