Good to see you, Willie.
Man, train travel is the greatest. I promised my 4 year-old daughter (and myself) a long train ride across the country (as much as possible) when we have the time and the finances.
Four times I rode the nonstop rail from Kiev to Donestk Ukraine. The only way to travel.
...never forgot a nearly 1000-mile train ride during childhood. It was fast.
Although I cannot stand the Obama reference in this article, riding the rails is the way to go. DOn’t we have an American version of the Orient Express?
I was a rail commuter for years when I worked in the city (Philly)and you never knew who you were going to meet. Always an adventure. In a few more years, I’d love to do the Silverton, Georgetown and other mountain routes. THen, maybe Alaska? Thanks for the breather from all the bad news this week.
So did the author park his train and get out and take in the scenery at that mountain pass? I doubt it.
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I want sleeper cars and mysteries lol
Sorry train rides are boring.. Time for you all train lovers to live in the present... Passenger train service in America is DEAD!!!!
financier Warren Buffett recently made a $44 billion investment in a railroad company.
So did a lot of other people, myself included, but not because the railroad hauled passengers.
To otherwise stay on track, no pun intended, the state of SD has one passenger rail line that I am aware of, between Keystone, SD and Hill City, SD called the 1880 train, pulled by a steam engine.
No Amtrak, that would be in North Dakota.
my old stomping ground. :)
Done many trips. Hope to do many more. The ride from Chicago to LA is fabulous.
A couple of years ago we got on the train in Charlottesville, changed in DC, Chicago, and LA and were picked up by our daughter at Oxnard. The change in Chicago even gave us time to go to walk to a church for Mass!
Unbelievably great ride! From before Raton until night fall in AZ is stunning!
Turnagain Arm ...high tide
...and at low tide
...SB out of Portage
Mt. McKinley ...not always cooperative in showing himself
...you're more apt to see wildlife, than McKinley on the way
...the S-curves make for some great shots
...outside Fairbanks