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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MargaretSPfan: [QB] [Momentarily de-lurking] I have traveled approximately 245,000 miles by rail so far. (1951-2008). My rail trips began with a trip as a child traveling from LA to SF on the "Coast Daylight" and ended with a trip from San Jose to LA on the "Coast Starlight". In between, I racked up the miles by commuting from my home town to SF for my job, for a total of 18 years. I commuted to SF in the mid-1960s behind Trainmasters and other wonderful power, but I was not a railfan back then, so I paid no attention whatsoever to those marvelous locomotives. Darn! I decided to "walk my talk" as a public transit advocate and use public transit a little while after I began to work in Oakland, so I returned to the now former SP rails, and commuted from the Midpeninsula to SF for 16 years, and even used BART for 9 of those years. I lived overseas as a child in the early 1950s, but remember very little of the few trains we did ride over there. I do remember, however, being really relieved at the lack of cinders getting into the train while in Switzerland. I also remember Le Gare du Nord in Paris being full of steam locomotives. I really wish my parents had taken some photos of those! I read with great interest the accounts of those of you who have taken cruises. I myself am not much for such things, greatly preferring "terra firma", but I did get to sail across the Atlantic in 1951 on the CP's Empress of France". It was quite an exciting trip, because we sailed the North Atlantic, a rough crossing in the best of times, but the rough seas did not scare me (it would have now!). I do remember sailing up the St. Lawrence River, but not much else. My parents were friends with a man who had sailed the North Atlantic in the Navy during WW2, and his reaction to learning that we had sailed the North Atlantic as part of a pleasure trip was, "You couldn't pay me to do that!" I rode various tourist trains and got to ride behind the UP 844, the UP 3985, the SP 4449 and the SP 2472, to name the main-line steam locomotives I have ridden behind. I got to be a Car Host a number of times, too. I treasure all those memories. Heck, my trip on the "Coast Daylight" might even have been behind the 4449! [back to lurk mode! :) ] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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