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Sorry for the tardiness in responding, Shaun; my 'need-to-respond-to' list keeps growing and things get shuffled around due to time and priority restraints.
But, yes - very important points made:
It blew mine. This was a guy who has sailed, flown many times, and probably ridden every dang carnival ride there is to ride in Toronto.
You could imagine my bafflement, too, for a moment - till my memory actually kicked in and told me that he was right - he had never 'taken the train' (let alone ridden it the way I have from childhood, hanging out the doorway, wind flying through my hair, or elbows propped on an open window-sill taking in the country side - and the smell of burnt cinder?! No point even trying to explain the dining car or sleeper arrangements.
As for all the breathless sounds. . . .
Long train rides, when I was sent off (from the coastal Capital I lived in) up into the hill country to vacation with my Aunt, were par for the course in my childhood - the rides would last hours through ever changing country side.
Obviously not the same as riding a packed subway.
But it does make me wonder how many teens and young adults are out there who have never had a train ride - even though such trains (and journeys) still exist. This is not like someone asking what it felt like listening to the victrola.
Trains are still around. Everyone should have at least one train ride in their life.
That way when someone asks 'Ever taken the train?' they can say 'Yes' without meaning they rode the subway a few times.
This echoes my thoughts in a recent post.
The concept of a linked transport, running on tracks, that can carry a mile of goods and supplies - and people safely - to remote places will always be a viable object as long as we're stuck to Earth, have to embrace its (and our own bodily) limitations, and need to travel great distances with massive loads all at once overland.
Railways will continue to boom - and even while new technology is being applied every day to the industry - those old trains still successfully run; sometimes to locations unaccessible for these functions in any other way but by rail.
A great example one day, maybe, of both modern and classical physics at work.
Congrats on being in the service for so long. You probably got coal tar in your bloodstream.
H.
But, yes - very important points made:
It blew mine. This was a guy who has sailed, flown many times, and probably ridden every dang carnival ride there is to ride in Toronto.
You could imagine my bafflement, too, for a moment - till my memory actually kicked in and told me that he was right - he had never 'taken the train' (let alone ridden it the way I have from childhood, hanging out the doorway, wind flying through my hair, or elbows propped on an open window-sill taking in the country side - and the smell of burnt cinder?! No point even trying to explain the dining car or sleeper arrangements.
As for all the breathless sounds. . . .
Long train rides, when I was sent off (from the coastal Capital I lived in) up into the hill country to vacation with my Aunt, were par for the course in my childhood - the rides would last hours through ever changing country side.
Obviously not the same as riding a packed subway.
But it does make me wonder how many teens and young adults are out there who have never had a train ride - even though such trains (and journeys) still exist. This is not like someone asking what it felt like listening to the victrola.
Trains are still around. Everyone should have at least one train ride in their life.
That way when someone asks 'Ever taken the train?' they can say 'Yes' without meaning they rode the subway a few times.
This echoes my thoughts in a recent post.
The concept of a linked transport, running on tracks, that can carry a mile of goods and supplies - and people safely - to remote places will always be a viable object as long as we're stuck to Earth, have to embrace its (and our own bodily) limitations, and need to travel great distances with massive loads all at once overland.
Railways will continue to boom - and even while new technology is being applied every day to the industry - those old trains still successfully run; sometimes to locations unaccessible for these functions in any other way but by rail.
A great example one day, maybe, of both modern and classical physics at work.
Congrats on being in the service for so long. You probably got coal tar in your bloodstream.
H.
