Pointless Prize: Golden Spike award

[arlcxrider]

To encourage more bikes on trains, and maybe something “fun” in the mix if the weather’s nasty, I’m offering the Golden Spike Award pointless prize.

THE RULES

1. Ride your bike to an active station where passengers board and alight. Location must have regularly scheduled passenger service. For example, the Vienna depot on the W&OD doesn’t count, neither does the old B&O station in Silver Spring. What constitutes “riding” to the station is on the honor system.
2. Intercity (Amtrak or equivalent), commuter rail (MARC, VRE, etc), heavy rail (WMATA, etc.) and light rail transit (DC Streetcar, Baltimore light rail) all count. Must be steel wheel on steel rail. (I will make an exception for Montreal.) Trolley buses (i.e., there is no fixed guideway) don’t count. Airport people movers don’t count.
3. Submissions to the forum must include a picture of the bike with a station sign.
4. Each station sign submission is worth one point and must be unique (no repeats.)
5. One submission per day of Freezing Saddles.
6. BONUS POINTS: board the train or light rail vehicle with your bike from one station and alight at another station. In that case you will claim three points. Must post a picture of your bike with the start station sign, end station sign, and your bike aboard the train to claim the three points.
7. BONUS POINT trips must be unique, but you could, for instance, board the Red Line at Silver Spring and ride to Union Station (three points) and the next day ride from Silver Spring to Rhode Island Ave and claim another three points.
8. Tie-breaking method will be at the sole discretion of the prize sponsor.
9. Useful, but not required, use hashtag #goldenspike on Strava.

Topic

[Nadine]

1/29/24 – 2nd pic

Me & my bike on the silver line train

[Nadine]

1/29/24 – 3rd pic

My bike below the Ashburn metro sign (with a few of my friends 😁🤷🏻)

My bike is the one directly under the metro EXIT sign – light blue trek madone w/a yellow sock covered thermos & an orange crossbar bag (& a coupla spare upper layers tied to the seat post)

[DCAKen]

1/29/24 Silver Spring metro station to Rhode Island Ave metro station

[Joan]

1/29/24 Clarendon to Ashburn metro (pics in reverse chronological order)

 

[AlanA]

@arlcxrider

I’d settle for a prize if $.22!
Sorry that I’m not really playing along, but I do enjoy fun train stuff.  I did pass the Sanderson, TX Amtrak station, but I was in my car. That would have been a fun find on the bike.

[consularrider]

#goldenspike – 01/30/2024 – DuPont Circle Metro Station, Red Line

[CaseyKane50]

1/30/2024 Metro Waterfront

[CCRider50]

1/30/24 Foggy Bottom – GWU

[DCAKen]

1/30/24 Silver Spring metro station to Noma-Gallaudet metro station

[consularrider]

#goldenspike – 01/31/2024 – Federal Center SW Metro station, Silver, Orange, and Blue lines

[Sophie CW]

1/31/24 – Shady Grove Metro

[CaseyKane50]

2/1/2024 Metro Ride Started at Potomac Yard Station [previously claimed] rode the train to Franconia-Springfield [new station]

[DCAKen]

2/1/24 Silver Spring metro station to Judiciary Square metro station

[CCRider50]

2/1/24 Medical Center Station – 

[Sophie CW]

2/2/24 – my subway ride from Rockville to Brookland

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