glowingfish

Years ago, I made a lot of long distance trips on Amtrak, through the East, the Midwest and the West. I liked it too, at the time--could look out the window indefinitely. The delays on long distance trips were crazy, though--I think they had to yield to every single freight train in the country.

Not so sure I'd like it now. I wish there was a much more usable train network. As a young child, we were still able to ride passenger trains on the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe.

But I still live in a town where you can hear the train whistles blowing, as Malvina Reynolds would say.