Do you like to ride trains?

even here in FtWorth which is a major change point.

We trained all over Spain.

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phone rings at 1:30 a.m. for a 4 a.m. train job, but he's still happy with it.)

across the US and have travelled by train in Canada. Always, even at the worst, enjoyable.

I would love to never have to drive again, and spend my travel time on trains being able to sleep, read, or go to the dining car, or just get up and stretch whenever I want...

Mmmmm.... I love trains.

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Otherwise, I take a taxicab confession.

Never been on a real one. But it's on my "bucket list." I think it'd be a fabulous ride — infinitely preferable to air travel.

I have been on a few, and it is infinitely better than flying. :P

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Although, should I ever have a choice, I want that captain and his crew as my plane people. :P

:P

:-(

This one train a day bullshit needs to end.

But yes I like the train. Both Amtrak and light rail mass transit.

So close in fact that some operators still *ding!* hubby when he gets out of the car like he's going to fall into the train. Freight & Amtrak rails crisscross the area so we got trains

at least four times a year. That's the only way to fly.

Here's a short youtube taken in southern California:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV-vEcNngQQ

The first, when our son and daughter were roughly 8 and 6, started at 30th Street Station in Philly. Overnight, with a 6 (?) hour layover in Chicago and then on to Santa Fe.
(two nights for that leg...the first morning we woke up at 7 AM pulling into Dodge City.
The second... after time at a Montana dude ranch (great place) we drove North to Havre, and got on the Empire Builder to Seattle.

Oh yeah, and my husband and I took the Ghan from Adelaide to Alice Springs in Australia a few years back.

And I'm happy to travel Amtrak up to New York or down to Washington any chance I get.

I love trains. I wish my children were still young enough to be dragged along.

That a great way to travel. At least back when rail passes were reasonable cheap. Though later I preferred Europe by bike.

Trains in India are an experience, especially travelling Third class.

Burma is another story. The trains out to Pagan, then back were the most uncomfortable journeys I've ever taken. The seats were literally a pain in the ass.

But never been on a train there :(

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What's up? :hi:

Hope your days going lovely these days :toast:

Same old with me too...work...work...work, but I do manage to have some fun with family and friends! :) :hi:

If & When of course :pals:

I've traveled by every other mode of transportation!

and Sunset Limited from NYC to Los Angeles. My Dad hated flying, and when we would visit
family on the west coast (we lived in NJ) we always took the train.

I love traveling by train in Europe. Wish we had better train service in the US now.

It's like a cruise but on land.

"No frills" is an understatement.

I like the feeling of going somewhere and looking at the scenery from the train and just the overall feel. Mind you, if it is a commuter train and it is crowded and you can't find a seat, that's slightly different

When I was in the States, I rode Amtrak a few times and thoroughly loved it

The Train

I like to see it lap the miles,
And lick the valleys up,
And stop to feed itself at tanks;
And then, prodigious, step

Around a pile of mountains,
And, supercilious, peer
In shanties, by the sides of roads;
And then a quarry pare

To fit its sides, and crawl between,
Complaining all the while
In horrid, hooting stanza;
Then chase itself down hill

And neigh like Boanerges;
Then, punctual as a star,
Stop--docile and omnipotent--
At its own stable door.

~Emily Dickinson

You don't have to drive, but you still get to see the countryside. I've really enjoyed traveling through England and Japan by train, seeing the landscape change, watching the farms and villages go by, talking to fellow travelers, getting up and walking around when I feel like it. Even my trip to Chicago in 2005 was fun, as the train traveled right along the Mississippi River and through the small towns of Wisconsin.

No, trains are not my cup o' tea. I know. It's blasphemy to live right next door to Hamlet, NC and NOT like trains, noisy ass mofos that they are. To each their own though. I don't fault anyone who DOES love trains.

I would love to take a major expedition by train someday!

I would love for our country to embrace train travel for long trips.

...passenger rail service in most of the states is horrible. Ridiculously overpriced private cabins, and terribly slow. The scenery on trips I've taken was nothing great, either. I swear, we must have passed by or through every major auto graveyard, city slum, and popular serial killer body drop local in each state.