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[QUOTE]Originally posted by notelvis: [QB] did you ever use the the train to get you there or go to 'the big game'? With apologies to Gilbert Norman......but how about a thread where we can talk about where we went to school, who we root for, and did you ever take the train in connection with your alma mater? I'll start - I have a Bachelor's degree from tiny Mars Hill College in Western North Carolina and a masters from the University of Maryland. My chief rooting interest though would be the University of Kentucky which is where my dad was a graduate student and where we lived when I began paying attention to such things. (I can recall seeing the remnants of Southern Railway's 'Royal Palm' in the late 60's passing through Lexington and Georgetown, KY) We Kentucky fans, naturally, are entitled to no opinion about football. As for connecting this to trains - the nearest railroad station to Mars Hill, Marshall, NC, became freight only when the last Carolina Special ran in December 1968. However, a couple of years before that my father, who was the band director at Mars Hill College, took his band on a chartered train (with other supporters from the college of course) from Marshall to Jefferson City, TN for an away football game with Carson-Newman College. My own train, college, big game saga is limited to College Park, MD where my apartment was just two blocks from the MARC platform and there were, at-the-time, baseball specials up to the Baltimore Orioles games in then-new Camden Yards Stadium. I'm not a baseball fan but I went to a few games just for an excuse to take the train. I also once used Amtrak's Silver Star from DC down to Columbia, SC to see a Kentucky at South Carolina basketball game. That was back in the days when Kentucky was likely to win any basketball game they played.....this season.....well......it won't last forever! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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