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Re:Across the USA by Train for Just $213 by united893 on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @11:53AM (#10259382)
Doing a reverse google image search seems like he googled for lots of train trips and combined photos from various sources. He's a great marketer, but bad photographer.

* http://landscapevoice.com/the-california-zephyr-trip-recap/

* http://wheresmybackpack.com/2012/08/16/i-survived-the-lake-s...

A number of the images are direct copies from the first link (ie: sleeper car pictures)

The Lakeshore limited image was awkwardly cropped (to remove watermark) from the second link. Side by side: https://i.imgur.com/hu9viqf.png

The dining car photo came from: http://www.baune.info/train.html

Another dining car photo came from: https://akronrrclub.wordpress.com/tag/cleveland-amtrak-stati...

The Emeryville station came from: http://subwaynut.com/california/amtrak/emeryville/emeryville...

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Re:Across the USA by Train for Just $213 by prezjordan on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @12:03PM (#10259464)
He also posted this to Medium, so hopefully they can do something about it. https://blog.growth.supply/across-the-usa-by-train-for-just-...

I went ahead and wrote to the author of the post you linked, and also reported the post on Medium.

EDIT: The author of the post you linked above got back to me. These photos were used without her permission.

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Re:Across the USA by Train for Just $213 by sanderjd on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @12:01PM (#10259443)
Ha, I wanted to say something like, "what a shame that this guy can't escape this infamy", but sure enough, 5 or 6 of those images are the same. Pretty confusing to me, because it seems like he did the trip and presumably could have used his own images – what's the point of this?
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Re:Across the USA by Train for Just $213 by prezjordan on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @04:31PM (#10261496)
It's gone :)

https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/11230907

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Re:Across the USA by Train for Just $213 by Simulacra on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @06:01PM (#10262007)
If you're interested in reporting him to UC Berkeley for plagiarism and generally conduct unbecoming of a Berkeley student, here is the link:

http://sa.berkeley.edu/conduct/report

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Re:Across the USA by Train for Just $213 by shoumik on Thursday September 24, 2015 @01:10AM (#10269939)
He's not a Berkeley student anymore. He graduated two years ago. Slightly ashamed I went to the same school as he did but I suppose he's just a lazy blogger trying to document his trips. Overall a harmless guy.
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Re:Across the USA by Train for Just $213 by prezjordan on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @11:41AM (#10297095)
I would consider it harmless if he took down the images and issued an apology instead of blocking left and right.

He's a thief.

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