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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MetSox: [QB] Growing up in NYC, I'd been riding the subway since I was a baby and that's where my passion for trains started. I know I first took the LIRR from Brooklyn to Amagansett in July 63 at age 6. The first real "intercity" train I took was the 20th Century in Feb. 65 From GCT to Chicago. We had two double rooms in a Sleepercoach, as they were called on the NY Central. Being the oldest, I got the top bunk and my brother and sister squeezed into the bottom. One thing I remember was that that we couldn't get back to our car from breakfast because they piled up the suitcases so high in the vestibules. When we got to La Salle St., we had to wait outside without our coats for our car to empty out before we could go back in and get our stuff and it was COLD!! I also took the Pennsy to DC a few times but can't remember if the first time was before or after the Century. In Aug. 68 I was fortunate enough to ride the original California Zephyr all the way from Chicago to Oakland. We were in an "extra" car, a Rock Island/Golden State sleeper "La Jolla", which just happens to be where I was born (we moved to NY when I was 5 months old). I'll never forget the sensation in the dome when the train got to the top of the front range and turned left into the Rockies. It felt like the train was flying and it couldn't have possibly been going more than 30 MPH. 13 1/2 years later I got the same sensation on the Rio Grande Zephyr. Cranky conductor story: I rode the first-ever northbound run of the Adirondack in Aug. 74. The train was combined with the Niagara Rainbow (I think) until Albany. When the crabby old conductor came around collecting tickets there was a guy who was obviously going somewhere west of Albany and he really went off on him. "THIS CAW'S GOIN' TO MONTREAWWL!! I'll never forget his voice and I still use that voice to this day when I imitate Amtrak conductors. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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