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[QUOTE]Originally posted by SilverStar092: [QB] For my birthday in April 1972, my senior year of high school, I was given a train trip between my hometown (Miami), and Baltimore. I took the Florida Special northbound, a Metroliner back to Washington DC then the Florida Special home to Miami on what turned out to be its last run. On the northbound ride I spotted a lovely looking college, inquired about it and ultimately attended Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, VA for one semester. My father put me on the Silver Star in Miami and I went off to college solo in a bedroom no less. I had to take a 15 mile taxi ride from Broad Street Station in Richmond to Ashland. One of my few pleasures that Fall was watching numerous passenger trains race through town including Amtrak's Silver Star, Silver Meteor, Carolina Coast, and the private Auto-Train. In fact, I was awakened from a sound sleep by a train my first night on campus as it sounded like a tornado from my dorm which was just a 150 or so feet from the RF&P main line. The northbound A-T usually passed while I was at phys ed, and if it showed up while I was running away from the railway on the jogging track, I would run backwards to allow me to watch its passage. In late afternoon I often positioned myself to watch the southbound Silver Star roll by. It was frustrating that Amtrak did not stop in Ashland and I wrote a letter to the new company detailing the advantages of such a stop. Alas it came to be many years later. I managed to link a few train trips with my time in Ashland. Once I rode a Greyhound bus to Richmond, made my way to Main Street Station and rode the James Whitcomb Riley to Williamsburg, attended a William & Mary football game with a girl I knew, and returned to Ashland the next day by train and bus. On another weekend I made the same journey to Richmond, and made a one-day round trip to Newport News. The Riley had a dome car and it terminated at a station in NPN right beside a boat dock in those days. I also made another roundtrip to Washington, DC and visited the Smithsonian where I caught my first glimpse of a moon rock (the Apollo program was still active then.) For Thanksgiving I made a round trip home to Miami and I also took the train home when I decided that one semester so far from home was enough. On those trips I got a single room in an ex-B&O budget room coach from its "Bird" series": Bobolink, Cardinal, Oriole, Robin, etc. Those rooms were really duplex roomettes and were far larger than the slumbercoach rooms that later found their way onto Florida trains. I will add more college railroading memories in a separate post. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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