There is A Train What Do You See?
71There IS a train WHAT do you SEE?
There is A Train What Do You See?
There is a train! What do you see?
Is it a long string of an engine and several coaches?
Sometimes it is all coal wagons, Fuel wagons, Market Supplies?
The History of Trains in the Americas,
Alaska, Australia, China, France,
India, South Africa, United Kingdom.
In considering what a train is, Firstly the assembled writings below are not intended to be an authority on all the information. It is written more for you to explore and fill your young minds of what the trains have done for us Human Beings. These words have been put together, so you can get more information if you so desire.
There are Five areas one should be aware of: -
1. The History from Creation and Invention.
2. The History of Function.
3. Where is this or that train going?
4. Is it Famous?
5. How fast can it Travel?
Outline of Railroad History
By Mary Bellis
Roads of rails called Wagonways were being used in Germany as early as 1550. These primitive railed roads consisted of wooden rails over which horse-drawn wagons or carts moved with greater ease than over dirt roads. Wagonways were the beginnings of modern railroads.
By 1776, iron had replaced the wood in the rails and wheels on the carts. Wagonways evolved into Tramways and spread though out Europe. Horses still provided all the pulling power. In 1789, Englishman, William Jessup designed the first wagons with flanged wheels. The flange was a groove that allowed the wheels to better grip the rail; this was an important design that carried over to later locomotives.
The invention of the steam engine was critical to the invention of the modern railroad and trains. In 1803, a man named Samuel Homfray decided to fund the development of a steam-powered vehicle to replace the horse-drawn carts on the tramways. Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) built that vehicle, the first steam engine tramway locomotive. On February 22, 1804, the locomotive hauled a load of 10 tons of iron, 70 men and five extra wagons the 9 miles between the ironworks at Pen-y-Darron in the town of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales to the bottom of the valley called Abercynnon. It took about two hours.
In 1821, Englishman, Julius Griffiths was the first person to patent a passenger road locomotive.
In September, 1825, the Stockton & Darlington Railroad Company began as the first railroad to carry both goods and passengers on regular schedules using locomotives designed by English inventor, George Stephenson. Stephenson's locomotive pulled six loaded coal cars and 21 passenger cars with 450 passengers over 9 miles in about one hour.
George Stephenson is considered to be the inventor of the first steam locomotive engine for railways. Richard Trevithick's invention is considered the first tramway locomotive, however, it was a road locomotive, designed for a road and not for a railroad. Stephenson was extremely poor growing up and received little formal education. He worked in local collieries and was self-taught in reading and writing. In 1812, he became a colliery engine builder, and in 1814 he built his first locomotive for the Stockton and Darlington Railway Line. Stephenson was hired as the company engineer and soon convinced the owners to use steam motive power and built the line's first locomotive, the Locomotion. In 1825, Stephenson moved to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, where together with his son Robert built (1826-29) the Rocket.
Colonel John Stevens is considered to be the father of American railroads. In 1826 Stevens demonstrated the feasibility of steam locomotion on a circular experimental track constructed on his estate in Hoboken, New Jersey, three years before George Stephenson perfected a practical steam locomotive in England. The first railroad charter in North America was granted to John Stevens in 1815. Grants to others followed, and work soon began on the first operational railroads.
Designed and built by Peter Cooper in 1830, the Tom Thumb was the first American-built steam locomotive to be operated on a common-carrier railroad.
The Pullman Sleeping Car was invented by George Pullman in 1857. Pullman's railroad coach or sleeper was designed for overnight passenger travel. Sleeping cars were being used on American railroads since the 1830s, however, early sleepers were not that comfortable and the Pullman Sleeper was very comfortable.
Advanced Train Systems
In the 1960s and early 1970s, considerable interest developed in the possibility of building tracked passenger vehicles that could travel much faster than conventional trains. From the 1970s, interest in an alternative high-speed technology centered on magnetic levitation, or maglev. This vehicle rides on an air cushion created by electromagnetic reaction between an on-board device and another embedded in its guideway.
History of Different Railroad Inventors
George Stephenson is considered to be the inventor of the first steam locomotive engine for railways.
The first locomotive in the world was built by Richard Trevithick in 1804.
Railroad Inventions Created by Women Inventors
Early inventions include Mary I. Riggin's railway crossing gate; Eliza Murfey's lubricating systems for railroad car axles to reduce derailments; and Mary Walton's noise reduction system for elevated railroads in New York City.
Colonel John Stevens is considered to be the father of American railroads.
One main source of power for locomotives was steam.
Complete and concise history presented by the National Railroad Museum, of Green Bay, Wisconsin.
The Englishman Richard Trevithick built and operated (1803-4) the first successful steam engine locomotive for hauling cars on a track.
Collection of articles and biographies about events, people, places, and things important to the development of railways in 19th-century Britain.
The same method was adopted frequently in the early times of the operation of the stone coal deposits in England, where this coal was transported from the mines in railroad cars drown by horses. Towards the 1630, nevertheless, an individual called Beaumont ran seating wood tracks with the same object; and by the end of XVIII century it was of current use railroads with wood tracks that had a cleared superior surface, adjusting to them the channeled rims of the iron wheels of the wagons; it also was appraised the advantage for the economy represented by the easier transportation ascending or descending the slopes, reducing the hills, filling up the depressions of the land and constructing bridges on the rivers.
Later the wood tracks were covered with strained iron plates, to extend their duration diminishing the wearing down, and in 1776 a railroad was constructed in Sheffield (United Kingdom) tending prismatic strained iron bars on wood beams.
Starting off from these coarse principles, the modern railroad was developed, a road composed of parallel steel rails supported by ties and providing a track for locomotive-drawn trains or other wheeled vehicles, with its heavy woods resting on divided stone and maintaining prismatic steel tracks that weigh of 45 to 65 kilograms per meter, with all its complete cohort of auxiliary elements: nails, signals, dispositions for rescue, etc.
In 1825 the Stockton and Darlington Railway in England started to operate regular services for passengers. George Stephenson designed a steam locomotive called "Locomotion" to pull passenger cars. On September 27th, 1825 the locomotive to pull a special train to mark the first steam-hauled public railroad. Tom Thumb, built in 1829 first ran in 1830 on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to Ellicots Mill, Maryland. This was the first public railroad in the United States. More trains meant more locomotives. The Orient Express is the world’s most famous train. The largest trains ever built were "Big Boys." They were in service between 1941 and 1944.They carried enormous freight trains that weighed about 3,960 tons! They also went up steep slopes in the Rocky Mountains. The locomotive and tender were almost 131 feet long and 16 feet high. They almost weighed 594 tons. They can run up to 80 miles per hour. The last stake was driven in at Promontory, Utah for the Continental railroad:
This line stretched all the way across America.
Locomotive "Puffing Billy”, 1813 Locomotive Killingworth, 1816
In the earliest Day Railways reached its zenith in 1928. The world’s networks registered the following totals. (Measured in thousands of kilometers): -
North America 510
South America 92
Europe 385
Asia 140
Africa 68
Oceania 50
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TRAINS can be awfully sexy, sleek, powerful, cute, elegant and brutal. There's something about them that intrigues small children and men.
That inspires the sort of reverence which really should be looked upon as a kind of endearing illness.
Traveling Canada by Train
By Susan Breslow Sardone
If you're one of those couples that believe the journey is as important as the destination, a trip aboard Via Rail in sleeper-class accommodations can be a perfect start to a Canada vacation.
Our Via Rail train was scheduled to pull out of Montreal's Central Station at 6:30 at night, bound to arrive in Moncton, New Brunswick the next day by noon.
Since we were traveling in Easterly Class, we had access to the Panorama lounge within the station, a comfortable place to relax and enjoy a complimentary soft drink. Earlier, Via Rail redcaps had whisked away our luggage. We'd been advised to pack just a small bag for our overnight on the train and were promised it would be waiting for us.
The Golden Arrow, in those pre-Eurostar days, was the joy of every loco-spotter, its cream and gold carriages hauled by an engine with the British and French flags snapping from the boiler. We all held that train lovers’ bible in our hands, Ian Allen’s loco-spotter’s guide to engine numbers.
Part of Doctor Zhivago revolves around his flight from Moscow by rail, his sight of Strelnikov’s revolutionary locomotive and his subsequent trek back to Lara down a partially snow-covered track. The film’s treatment of this is not as good as the books, where a female barber warns Zhivago that he risks arrest with "all this talk of special trains".
TRY AS I did, I did not detect any link between Indian Railways and Bollywood as the former launched the year-long celebrations of their 150th anniversary on April 16, 2002. The special `Heritage' train which ran from Bombay to Thana replaying the historical first passenger train run in the sub-continent 150 years ago on the same route had 400 VIP passengers. But no Dilip Kumar, no Dev Anand, no Bachchan, no Madhuri Dixit, no other Bollywood legend. Veteran actor Sunil Dutt made his debut in a film called ``Railway Platform" but he was not present on platform number 8 of Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly known as VT) as the Heritage Train took off. I do not know who goofed up on this score but it was hard to visualise trains without movies. And movies without trains.
The Indian Railways was the second largest network in the world and Bollywood made the highest number of films in the world. Like Indian Railways, Bollywood was truly national where no one bothered about caste, creed, language and religion. Both reflected every single aspect of human life in the country. Take an average Hindi movie. Boy meets girl in the train or on the railway platform and the seeds of romance are sown. Boy quarrels with girl on some pretext and they travel in different directions, again by train. Boy and girl decide to come together; this is achieved, courtesy railways.
Foreign films, which lacked the song and dance sequences of our films, used trains in serious, crime, war and historical movies. The long lines of Westerns were seldom made without scenes showing the pioneering rail road people and outlaws looting trains. Agatha Christie fans were thrilled when her novels, ``4.50 from Paddington" and ``Murder in the Orient Express" were made into movies, the last one being a multi-starrer bagging a couple of Oscars. Alfred Hitchcock used the trains to advantage in his thrillers. Much of the action in his ``Strangers on a Train" and ``North by North-West" was in trains.
James Bond fought his Russian enemy in a train in ``From Russia with Love" and that classic villain, Goldfinger, used a train in his attempt to plunder the American Government's gold from Fort Knox.
The wars, both major and minor, offered a lot of scope for `train movies'. Frank Sinatra starred in ``Von Ryan's Express," Burt Lancaster saved precious Western art from falling into the hands of the Nazis in ``The Train," David Lean's ``Bridge on the River Kwai" was all about stopping a Japanese train on the newly-built bridge over the Kwai. Spielberg's ``Schindler's List" had scenes of German Jews being transported by trains to concentration camps and the train scenes were important in another Lean film, ``Dr Zhivago."
Travel by train occupies an important place in the North American psyche: Rails opened the West, drove the industrial revolution, unified Canada, won the Second World War . . . Our parents and grandparents crossed the country by train as a matter of course in curtained sleeping cars, vista domes, and elegant dining cars. But the politics of the 1950s and the power of the auto industry ushered out the age of the train in North America while in Europe it soldiered on.
Panorama cars let you take in the full viewFrench trains reached 125 miles per hour in the 1960s, 160 mph in the 1980s, and 175 mph in the 1990s. The 200-mph barrier will fall soon, perhaps broken by the Spanish even before the French get to it. The safety record is perfect: Not a single passenger has ever died in a high-speed train wreck. Contrast that with the 40,000-plus killed on American roads every year. Better yet, speedy trains turn out to provide a service no other vehicle can manage. If New York and Boston were in Europe, they would be 90 minutes apart and the ticket would cost $40. When it takes you that long just to make it to the airport, you wonder just what the Happy Days crowd was thinking when they turned away from trains.
The Chicken or the Egg?
Trains serve city centers. Airports don't, and highways gut them. Has Europe kept its beautiful and vibrant urban cores intact because it kept its trains? Or are trains necessary because the cities are so important?
As a traveler, you have made the decision to travel Europe by train, and it is a richly rewarding one. You have in store unparalleled scenery, contact with local cultures, and romantic arrivals and departures from glorious urban epicenters. In daylight you can travel fast. Overnight you can curl up in a bed and sleep away the trip to make the most of your time at the endpoints. Or, travel slowly. Swiss and Austrian local services climb every Alp, wending their way through meadows of wildflowers in the shadows of snowcapped peaks, views unsullied by the detritus of the roadside strip mall. Gaze out the window of your Danish express at thatched-roof farmhouses nestled in golden fields of grain under endless Baltic skies. Little country stations are just feet from the select beaches of the French or Italian Riviera, while the "rich and famous" (and none-too-bright) stew in their fancy cars, waiting out eternal traffic jams on impossibly choked access roads. -
Fast Trains
On the southern bank of the Yangtze river, about 30km north of Shanghai, lies Pudong international airport. Since it opened its first terminal in 1999 it has served China's irrepressible 21st-century megalopolis with nothing more futuristic than a fleet of taxis and a schedule of buses.
The world's first commercial high-speed maglev now connects Pudong with downtown Shanghai in a very, very nimble seven minutes 20 seconds. Shanghai's new express can reach a top speed of 430kph (267mph) in just under two minutes.
Maglev - shorthand for magnetic levitation - is basically a train that floats on an electromagnetic cushion, which is propelled along a guideway at incredible speeds. Magnetic levitation has been a long-standing dream of railway engineers - the first patent was issued in 1934 - but the first new mass transit system since the advent of the aeroplane has suffered more delays than the average London commuter train.
Little wonder. At first glance, maglev technology appears extortionately expensive when compared with conventional rail: a mile of track costs at least £3.5m to build and that's not including the cost of the giant electricity substations. But, say its advocates, the long-term benefits are many. Not only can it cut journey times in half, maglev is cleaner and cheaper to run than passenger aircraft. According to Transrapid, the German manufacturer of the Shanghai maglev, the technology uses five times less energy - per passenger mile - than jet aircraft. Maglev trains cost a few million pounds per vehicle, compared with $200m for the average Boeing 747.
Moreover, maglev schedules should also be less affected by bad weather or congestion than air travel and are cheaper to maintain. As the maglev has no wheels there is far less erosion of track, radically cutting operating costs. "Maglev offers the prospect of first-class style for a lower cost than economy air travel," explains Robert Budell of Transrapid, "there will be less need to pack you in like sardines".
But for a maglev fast enough to compete seriously with passenger aircraft you must travel to Japan. In the foothills of Mount Fuji, 100km west of Tokyo, lies the tourist town of Tsuru. Why would anyone build a test track for the future of mass transit in such mountainous terrain? "Because Japan is a mountainous country," answers Tadao Okai, a senior engineer for Japan Rail. "The vast majority of 18.4km of our test track is underground because when we come to build the maglev network we must build it beneath our cities."
At Tsuru there is a small observation deck and visitor centre that overlooks the single kilometre where the maglev emerges from its tunnel. In December, the Japanese maglev reached 581kph, breaking its own Guinness World Record of 552kph (with passengers aboard) set in 1999. However, most analysts believe that Japan's proposed inter-city maglev could be decades away from being built. Even in China, maglev has suffered setbacks. Plans for a 1,290km Shanghai-to-Beijing line are officially on hold. While in Transrapid's back yard, plans for a maglev line between Hamburg and Berlin were derailed by the Green Party. As part of Gerhard Schröder's ruling coalition, it argued that the proposed line would damage wildlife with electromagnetic radiation, and that its concrete track-supports would spoil forests.
Part of the problem is that both Japan and Germany already have enviable high-speed rail networks. Japan's pioneering shinkansen - or bullet train - carries 300,000 people every day from Tokyo to Osaka in two hours 30 minutes and uses far less electricity than the proposed maglev. The maglev link could cut the journey time to one hour but the enormous cost of building a new network is more than the country can afford.
Both the Japanese and German systems make much of their environmental benefits, but John Whitelegg, a professor of sustainable transport at Liverpool John Moores University and Green party spokesman, disagrees. Whitelegg was a civil servant in the German ministry of transport when a maglev line between Dusseldorf and Dortmund was cancelled. "It's not the role of government and not the role of taxpayers' money to encourage overgrown schoolboys to play with overgrown toys."
The idea of using magnets to float trains and fire them down a track has been around for 80 years. In 1922, a German engineer called Hermann Kemper first dreamed of his "electromagnetic levitation train". He received a patent in 1934 and demonstrated the first functioning model a year later.
Tracks were laid 5,072 meters above sea level in Amdo, Tibet, on Wednesday morning, setting a new world record in railway construction.
The tracks were laid along the Tanggula Mountain Pass, 255 meters higher than those that run along the Andes in Peru. Until Wednesday, the Peruvian railway that runs from the Pacific Coast up to the Andes at 4,817 meters was the highest railway point in the world for about 100 years.
The Qinghai-Tibet railway project is 1,142 kilometers long. It runs along the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, also known by some as the "roof of the world".
Linking Gelmud in Qinghai with Lhasa in Tibet, the railway, when fully operational in 2007, will also boast the world's highest railway station at 5,068 meters above sea level and the world's highest transportation channel on ice at 4,905 meters. 960 kilometers of the railway will run 4,000 meters above sea level.
About 550 kilometers of the railway runs on ice or frozen earth, which "poses a major challenge to the railway construction," La Youyu,
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Why thank you Maam
I hope we have a great year in 2008
What an accumulation of information!You are from Sydney.As far as I know Australia has more airways than roadways,since most of the civilization is on the coastal regions and the interior is not as populated as the coastal regions.I hope you come up with an article on airways too.I loved the seats arrangement in the hub pictures.Thanks for sharing this.Have a Great New Year!
This is a wow hub! Thanks for the extra links and write-ups. The movie info was very interesting, especially.
When I was a kid, I had travelled many times in the sooty but marvellous steam engine trains!
what he said.... grand hub!
Abhinaya: You are right. What little population living in the middle are mainly Indigenous and some farmers. They are getting to be a very small numbers as the 8 year old drought is killing everything.I have been over the desert in the train. Val and I had to change trains three times, because the tracks changed as you entered another State. That was in 1960
I will do one on airways, not tonight.
Thank you
Kenny Wordsmith Thank you
in 1978 Val and I went for a train ride across USA getting out every night to look at the town and country.
We finally left AMTRAC in Denver: Went to Chicago by plane. The service was poor the dinning room was disgusting. We were not happy. We climbed back in Chicago to go to New York.
It is amazing how many trains were used in the making of films
Iðunn : Thank you for your comment
Mr. Marmalade, thanks for sharing your enthusiasm, obviously trains run in your veins, you keep coming up with the goods, firing-up on all cylinders...cranking each stroke of the keyboard with a delightful trip back in time...when trains brought people closer together, linking communities, trains represented progress, a status symbol of the wealthy and opulent ...and the preferred way to travel in style!
So far we have traveled Australia in the train
Traveled across America
Traveled across Germany Traveled around France.
Given time we will go across Canada as well
We love trains, if they are opulent.
We also like large Ships
What about the old iron horse in the yippee shows. That was a really brilliant hub it takes you back over the years. I loved the old trains, as kids we used to say the old steam engine train wheels talked to us. Simply because as you traveled you found your self saying words to the sounds of the wheels. Do you remember doingthat.
This hub is Anoraks heaven! lol
Murder in the Orient Express was a great film and i would love to have the honour of traveling on one one day..
Well,well,well,i am really impressed with this hub, i never bother about issues like this but you have added to my knowledge thanks a lot
Eileen Hughes
I most certainly do.
Another thing I find it easy to sleep in Trains, but not easy in aeroplanes.
I have probably had a leat 20 nights in trains Lots of sleep. At least 30 nights in planes and very little sleep .
We love trains
compu-smart I loved saturday afternoon with all those Westerns and Gene Autrey would ride up on Trigger a by the side of the train and rescues the damsel in distress,
or was it the lone Ranger?
Loved them
kunle,
Thank you for your thought.
I hope you will look into the new era of fast trains.
When you consider the time it takes to airport. Most cities I have lived in the airport seems to be out in the middle of nowhere, whereas the Main railway station is usually located in the middle of the town.
The you have to que up, weight your luggage, sit in the predeparture lounges and if you are traveling overseas, another sit, turmoil in seating, specially if you are an isle seat and the passenger at the window seat arrives after you. All that time wasted. As they say, unless you are into clouds, one cloud looks similar to another. Blue sky is the same all over the World.
I share your love of trains, MrMarmalade, and I love the trolleys, too! I often took the Pullman sleepers from NY to FLA. But when Amtrak replaced some of them with modern cars the new sleepers weren't up to speed. Also they were badly understaffed.
Mr M, I stand in awe of your knowledge of trains. Where did you find all this. Great hub.
William F. Torpey
100% right. We traveled Amtrak when they invented get out of planes arrive by train.
The advertisements arrived before they trained the the train staff. disappointed in the food and their carers.
Liked the train.
It sounds likr they have not improved their service
Mark Knowles
Mainly from two books I am selling on Ebay
Information brought back from China from Son 3 in December 2007
Thank you for kind words
I still love them too! the spaghetti westerns are my ultimate favorites:)
I have never heard that term before.
Thank you
Wow a lot of information here.
I remember when my 1st Grandson was about 3 months old. I had picked up an old train set at Goodwill the track went in an oval shape and the train actually whistled and had lights and blew steam. I am sure a collector would of jumped at the purchase of this train for 20.00. Anyways I used to lay Austin in the middle of the track (mind you this track took up half of my living room.) Austin would lay there on his belly and learned to lift his head and follow the train as far as he could. He eventually started scooting around with the train.
Throughout his babyhood when ever we were on a car ride if he seen a train I would hear Grandma a train, of course sometimes it sounded more like twain LOL
Austin is now Seven and he says, When he grows up he is going to be a conductor." I say, "a what"? He says, "You know Grandma, a train conductor. I'm going to drive trains." LOL it's so cute!
Anyways sorry for rambling on thanks for bringing back the memory.
Jewel
http://writing-your-life-story.com/
ps. Also thank you for stopping by my web site and posting in my guest book it's greatly appreciated.
Jewel2, I have to believe anything or happening that can brinng back memories is valuable and I very happy to get you those memorie s back. Let us both hope that 2008 will produce more of these memories
Wow Mr Marmalade I too love trains. Have traveled several vacations on them. Here in my neck of the woods it's AmTrack. We have steam rides in the woods...Dinner trains in seattle.and miniture trains in my shop..Have been building a whole city..(till mr. wonderful left me) but I hand painted each piece each person( using a magnifying glass), each building,each sign etc. Loved every minute of it too.
And yes the sleeper car just lulled me to sleep with many wonderful dreams. and the stories in the observation car I shall never forget. some were blown up of course...but we never saw any of those people again..I even crocheted doilies for the help in appreciation of their tender care to us. the meals were suppurb and so were the drinks.
We have a Bed and Breakfast here and each one is a box car all fixed up with hot tub and beds and serve breakfast in the diner car. thery are all on tracks and all the railroad signs. It is quite quaint..a bit odd in the country setting, although the trains used to run through here till about 20 years ago.
Anyway didn't mean to babble on so . Just brought back some fond memories to me. thank you G-Ma :O)
sorry for some reason it wouldn't let me edit my mistakes so sorry G-Ma :O( :O)
G-Ma. I believe if the match is perfect the is never any need for you to say sorry. I liked hearing of your memories. Showing amazement where it is due. You have a bed and breakfast built in the design of train carriages. I think you are incredible. I notice Hubs seem to do. Particularly when I have made lots of mistakes. May be they wear out quicker than you and I do.
Thank you for those wonderful times.
WHOA!! Amazing! You do know so MUCH about trains, you should be able to teach trains as degree in college, if they had one! lol Very nice hub!!
You are too kind but keep on doing it I like it. I will tell you when to stop.
HA! HA!. It will be never.
Thank you for becoming a fan.
wait.. I hope you didn't think I had a B&B built with trains... there is one a few blocks from where I live. It is so cool..if you enjoy trains....G-Ma :O) i went back and re-read my comment..yes it did sound like I had a b&b.. sorry..wish I did tho.am just a child care giver in a small town. and no real money in my life..enough to get by..what else do I need???Hugs G-Ma :O)
I was going to dream to night about that. Still I still love your works. Keep pumping it to me.
I have never ridden on a train, except a short 1/4 mile excursion and I have always wanted to take a train trip. I hope to do so before the train becomes extinct in America.
A lady here in my town owns a train caboose in her backyard and to travel, she pays a fee and has it hooked to a train!
Now that is something out of the ordinary. I have never ever heard of anything like that. Around Australia you can see plenty of carriages dotting some landscape even a back yard. They do not move and in the main they are derelicts.
In Melbourne there is a tram running on rails set up as a Restaurant, and you get on at 6.30 PM and it goes from the center of Melbourne to St. Kilda. There and back takes 3 hours and the meal served with all the pomp and ceremony is marvelous.
Thank you for looking
THIS IS GREAT WORK.
I REMEMBER TRAVELING THE USA IN THE 50'S BY TRAIN.
HOW FAST WE FORGET.
GREAT WORK!!!
I prefer trains to planes, for sure. I see the Orient Express every once in awhile, and I keep wondering what it would be like to travel on it! Good hub!
A.J, I always like praise, Perhaps you're a little generous
as I said I do not ming when you stroke my back.
Thank you
Isabella,
I have been a bit of train freak for many years.
Val and I do intend to go on the Orient Express perhaps in June 2008
I hope you get the chance to travel on it
Have a great 2008
YOu should see my Thomas the Tank Collection. Gotta give out props to Carnegie steel here in the states. I really liked the props to Sinatra, since he is my tribute Du Jour. We love trains and we will always have them. No matter our technology, we create a train to reflect it. There will be trains on The Moon and Mars one day, though they will most likely support some industrial endevour.
I have to agree with you, I probably will not be there to agree with you in face to face conversation
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