I'll keep it short, I'm 76 years old and have never "directly" worked for any Railroad.
As a child of 4 or 5 my mother would take the train to Boston from Providence to do her shopping. The shuttle train was The New Haven Railroad's "Comet". A light weight aluminum train that ran at 95 mph, I remember that train in detail.
At the start of my working days I would take the morning local to Boston and try to time it to get the New Haven's "Merchants Limited" back to Providence, 5PM departure.
My Amtrak era started in 1985 when my work took me to New York and Washington. The train of choice, "Metroliner Service". Yes, one "Metroliner" made it all the way to New Haven ariving in the evening. It left the next morning for Washington before 6AM, into DC before noon.
I have ridden many New Haven trains and lots of MBTA Boston or MNR New York Commuter Rail. You meet people and that opens doors. This has led to escorted cab rides on "Corridor Trains" including the "Acela". Even the cab rides required Safety Training first. I have had two lessons on Road Diesels and one on a Steam Locomotive.
We have lots of Passenger Trains in the Northeast!
Don U. TCA 73-5735
Less than 2 weeks ago I rode behind the Tornado at 75 mph from Euston station in London to Kidderminster, the home of the Severn Valley Railway. I've also done the Great Central, the Keighly and Worth Valley and last March, the Mid-Hants. The Brits, bless 'em, they do steam right! They ought to since they invented the whole thing and all of them had real ale on board and that is the way to travel!
DaveVan, the only way you could have left Ashland by train was on the C&O. You probably rode the Big 4 on to Chicago, and if you had a through sleeper, that was the way you went. The other possibility between Cincinnati and Chicago was the PRR (unless you took an indirect routing, with a change or two)..
Johnny
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