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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MargaretSPfan: [QB] Smitty: After some further thought -- memories came flooding back! -- I now have a total of approximately 249,000 miles on trains of all sorts (steam, electric, diesel -- oh, and even horse-drawn! (Hello, Ardenwood! :) ) Yeah, I was surprised that my total rail miles was that high. Yes. most of that was commuting to and from work. I've been on a few of Amtrak's LD trains: the Coast Starlight, the California Zephyr, and the Southwest Chief. Haven't ridden the Empire Builder yet and doubt I will --a combination of money and other reasons, though I dearly love to travel. All my Amtrak LD trips were in coach, except back in 1981, when I shared a room with an Amtrak conductor friend of mine when we rode a rare Coast Starlight detour up the Inside Passage on the old GN as far as Chemult. That was fun! I remember the train tip-toeing at no more than 5 mph through a flooded area where the water was up to the railhead -- all you could see was the tracks and a large sheet of water! This was in the fall, I believe, and up in far northern CA it had snowed -- looked lie Christmas outside the train. Because the detour was in dark territory, the speed limit was 59 mph, which was one of the things that made us 8 hours late into Chemult. The other thing that made us that late (which I didn't mind at all :) -- more train ride for the money :) ) was the need to recrew before we got to Chermult, as the crew had died on the law at a place called Robbers Creek. So was sat in this Christmas-like wonderland -- which I didn't mind at all -- and waited for the relief crew to arrive from K Falls. They had trouble finding us because the radio was out (I think), so they had to keep checking the track to see if there was snow on the railhead. They finally found us, and off we went. We got off i Chemult and caught the southbound Starliight, and returned home on the detour route. That was a trip to remember -- and I realized I forgot to include it in and a few other trips in my final tally. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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