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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Railroad Bob: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Henry Kisor: [qb] We sure do not take trains for the culinary experience anymore. (The food seemed to be the same that was being served in the Sunset's conventional diner. Maybe not as many choices.) *BOB SAYS* Old rail "heads" who knew the score told me that sometimes Angelenos, for an offbeat dining experience in the 50s- would take one of the ATSF "name trains" from LAUPT to San Bernardino, just to have dinner in those dining cars...then would return to LA on a late night WB local...! I may have run into that waiter-from-hell once. He was nasty toward ignorant diners who tried to be helpful and hand him their empty plates. Let's hope he's no longer employed by Amtrak. *BOB SAYS*Fer as I know, he's still there- keeps turning up like a bad penny- too young to retire and you know how hard it is to fire someone for "surliness." "Hang Fire" is the fourth novel in a mystery series about a Lakota-born sheriff in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This one involves serial murder by muzzle-loader. I had to buy a flintlock pistol replica for research. Had great fun learning how to shoot it -- when it didn't result in a hang fire. Made a glorious bang. *BOB SAYS*I knew the phrase- being a lifelong member of the shooting sports. Hangfires can happen with centerfire ammo, too- in case of a slow-burning primer. Very rare, but not unheard of. Can happen in old ammo that's sat around for years... As for sleeping on the rocking train, I guess those 16 trips in 18 months I took for "Zephyr" did the trick. My dad told me how he got used to sleeping at his battle station in a heaving sea during World War II and had to learn how to sleep in a landbound bed all over again. *BOB SAYS*I learned how to sleep on the moving trains up in the transdorm cars. Actually the conductors radio kept me awake more than the motion of the train. If we stopped for longer than a standard station stop, I would instantly wake up, too. [/qb][/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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