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To: abuelita who wrote (38309)12/10/2004 5:28:44 PM
From: Clappy  Read Replies (2) of 104157
 
trains are so romantic aren't they
- like the orient express.


Yeah. Definitely.

I also sometimes think about how hobos used to camp
out cooking over an open fire under the stars and when
it was time to move on, they'd hop on an empty freight
car cruise along through the summer night's air and
wake up in some far off town with a new experience
waiting for them there.

...or...

They would get loaded up on ripple and pass out in a
smelly livestock car and get their butts kicked by the
train conductor and heaved off the car into the gravel
bed...

I prefer the first scenario and wish I had tried it when
I was just out of high school...

Over in Europe they have that nice EuroRail. You could
buy a season pass and travel as often as you wanted. I
wonder if Amtrack ever had such a deal.

-Clappy
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