More passenger trips

[Anonymous]

[:)]Love reading of your passenger train experiences, we still think it was the best way to travel. Haven't done much since the 70's, 'cept for brief tourist train stuff in the 90's. Hubby's first memory was on the Hiawatha, Chicago to Milwaukee, 85 mi in 72-75 min top speed at one time 127 mph. He remembers, as the General Solicitor introduced him and his dad to Engineer Dempsey (pictured in Lionel catalogs). It was August 15, day Will Rogers died.
He doesn't type, but I'll send along some more of our memories. Planned to do that sooner, but computer, modem, and printer all went kaput at once. The "best" trips I had was Lansing, Michigan to LA for the Rose Bowl 1955 and together with our children, the pilot trip for the autotrain in 1965 --Walter Tuohy's dream coming to fruition -- 1965 aboard B&O's Capitol Limited, round trip Chicago and Washington, DC. More about that later.

By the way, don't mean to be treading in male territory, but I've always loved trains and model railroading, and am lucky to have married a man with the same interests--and willing to share them with me!

I'll close with another smile since I don't know what/how to do the profile signature [:)]