Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: coach

An interior shot from our 1999 trip on Pennsylvania's Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad .

Although we didn't ride the K&K railway excursion (a timing issue, mostly), a few days later we boarded a train in Titusville and rode along the Oil Creek valley (PDF). This is a truly historic area--the petroleum industry was born here--and the tour did a decent job of introducing that history. It's rather like a mining area's saga, with boom towns and speculators and colorful characters. Now mostly wilderness, and ruins. George Bissell, after whom the car is named, was an oil industry pioneer. The photo was taken, I believe, at the tour's Petroleum Centre stop.

Third baseman Marco Albano of Cedar Rapids (an Angels farmhand) and coach (actually manager) Lance Parrish of the Great Lakes Loons (a Dodgers farm) are both directing traffic. The baserunner's Francisco Lizarraga. Original photo here ; this copy's been cropped. 185 game photos here .

Hall of Fame second baseman Ryne Sandberg is manager (and third base coach) assigned to the Peoria Chiefs, the Cubs' Class A farm, this summer, and he's proving to be the Midwest League's strongest attendance draw. Every league team built part of last spring's marketing campaign around Peoria's road schedule. This week brought the Chiefs to West Michigan and Lansing , and I got to the first game in each series. The West Michigan game was absolutely delightful; the Lansing game was pretty sorry. Original picture here .