Kiddies, this is my day to see, hear and think about trains. Mainly, Amtrak, but there's more. Did you hear the big news that Amtrak launched their own YouTube channel? If you wanna check it out, proceed. The clips I am posting have absolutely nothing to do with that partik topic.
This Amtrak newsflash, along with the fact I had to wait while an Amtrak rail car blew down the tracks in West Palm this morning, got my train wheels spinning.
As always, sitting there watching those silver boxes zip past, my thoughts go to my love of train travel. A two week Amtrak odyssey a few years back made me fall in love with riding the rails...first class you understand! Uh-huh, I'm not talking 'bout tossing myself into some freight car.
True train travel is from the past, civilized and sassy. Whether it is gliding up the western coastline from Los Angeles to Seattle, an antique train in Vermont or the Chunnel between London and Paris, it is divine. I even loved the little five-mile job that ran through the park when I was kid.
Let me pause all this romanticising chat of train travel, because if you live here you could be thinking of the Tri-Rail, and that is simply not a part of this saga, okay?It is a fine way to travel along the Treasure Coast and let's leave it at that for today.
So, I salute trains and if you haven't taken a real trip on one, get yourself to the Amtrak site, visit them on YouTube and get on THAT. They aren't even paying me to say this, but they should, don't ya think?
If this just is not your cup of tea...how about a nice Chunnel cocktail from a bartender in Austin, Texas?
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