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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doodlebug: [QB] I was born and raised in Hamlet, N.C., the Hub of the Seaboard (Airline Railroad). Hamlet High School always played one road football game each season when the booster club would charter a Seaboard train to take our fans to the game. I rode trains as a child with my family to games against Sanford (north on today's CSX "S" line) and Lumberton (east on SAL's line to Wilmington, which features the longest stretch of tangent (straight) track in the United States). Once I was in high school in the late 1960s, I was a football player and rode the team bus, but played in games that our fans took the chartered trains to including Sanford, Lumberton and Monroe (west on SAL's line to Atlanta and Birmingham, route of the [i]Silver Comet.[/i] I was a regular on the [i]Comet[/i] to Atlanta once or twice each summer to see Braves baseball games: $17.85 round-trip Then I went to UNC-Chapel Hill. If I visited Hamlet for a weekend, I took the bus to Raleigh on Friday afternoon after classes and rode the [i]Silver Star[/i] home and enjoyed a steak in the diner. My sophomore year at Chapel Hill, Carolina played Georgia Tech in the championship game of the National Invitation Tournament (basketball) in Madison Square Garden. My roommate and I caught the [i]Silver Meteor[/i] north from Raleigh about 3 a.m. to New York City, arriving midday, rode an escalator from Penn Station into Madison Square Garden to see the Tar Heels win, and then flew back to Raleigh-Durham Airport that night. Later, as a sports writer in San Jose, I looked for ways to take the train rather than fly. That included traveling to and from San Diego on the [i]Coast Starlight[/i] to cover America's Cup races, to Eugene, Ore., to cover track meets, and between St. Louis and Chicago on the [i]Texas Eagle[/i] to cover Major League baseball games. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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