Pointless Prize: Golden Spike award

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    arlcxrider
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    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.

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    consularrider
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    #goldenspike – 2/16/2024 – EFC to Innovation Center on the Silver Line

    #1132074
    DCAKen
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    2/16/24 Grand Ave Arts / Bunker Hill Station metro station

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    DCAKen
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    2/17/24 Angels Flight, a funicular that is the shortest railway in the world

    #1132163
    DCAKen
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    2/18/24 Little Tokyo / Arts District metro station

    #1132175
    consularrider
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    #goldenspike; 2/18/2024 – Judiciary Square Metro Station, Red Line

    #1132332
    CaseyKane50
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    2/20/2024 Metro Columbia Heights

    #1132345
    DCAKen
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    2/20/24 Seattle Center Monorail station

    [NSFW]

    The forum’s photo censor is annoying. See the picture in my Strava ride

    #1132409
    DCAKen
    Participant

    2/21/24 South Lake Union Streetcar Westlake & Olive station

    #1132515
    consularrider
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    #goldenspike – 2/22/2024 – Van Dorn Metro Station, Blue Line

    #1132516
    consularrider
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    #goldenspike – 2/19/2024 (am I too late in posting?) – Bethesda Metro Station, Red Line

    #1132517
    DCAKen
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    2/22/24 Amtrak King Street station

    #1132607
    CaseyKane50
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    2/23/2024 Metro Gallery Place

    #1132691
    consularrider
    Participant

    #goldenspike – 02/24/2024 – Eisenhower Ave Metro Station, Yellow Line

    #1132709
    antibozo
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    2024-02-24 Metro Bethesda to Grosvenor with Steve Szibler. #goldenspike

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    Laurie E.
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    2/24/24 #goldenspike

    At Mount Vernon Square/convention Center Metro, on the platform of Mount Vernon Square Metro, on the train with my bike,  exiting Howard University Metro.

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