Too bad my parents never saw the need to travel by train! Thanks for all
the information.
Rick
>From: "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
>To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [CBQ] Re: How did the passenger trains make money and other
>questions?
>Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 02:05:41 -0000
>
>--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Bob Webber <no17@c...> wrote:
> > .... And there was NOTHING finer than being in a Budd short dome on
>a
> > moon lit night when (finally) everyone else was quiet and you were
>zipping
> > along at 70 mph and you felt isolated and you could see the
>occasional farm
> > or ranch house or car and just see everything by the light of the
>stars and
> > moon - the experience had to be felt to be believed....
> >
> >
>
>Amen. For me it was sitting up in one of the domes on the North Coast
>Ltd. overnight from Chicago to St. Paul. Moon reflecting off the
>Mississippi, a little silvery mist over the waters, some very silvery
>and black clouds, and everything slightly tinted through the glass.
>Magical.
>
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