It was Wonderful.
Gleaming ribbed stainless steel sides.
Spotless windows.
Professional black crew of conductors and cooks.(just like Navy ship galleys.)
The coolest train cabins with fold down wall beds.
And high tech ,stainless clean tiny fun bathrooms.
Wonderful meals for 2 unaccompanied children in fine formal dining cars.
Wonderful food.
Sleeping on very smooth tracks all the way down the Coast, from sj(sf) to LA and Grandparents for a few weeks every summer. Sooo much better than driving, and I'm a guy.
We could electrify the old dirty diesel electric train engines and re-celebrate one of the most enjoyable transport trains ,hauling people and not just freight, on a spectacular coast route. Tell me people would not pay lots for that experience again ! Freight trains only on that glorious route is a Sin. Even take the passenger train N. to Portland and Seattle. Electric cars and charge stations are wayway too expensive. And not nearly as much fun! A new Mazda3 is going to cost me over $30k; each one of us in flawed, unbalanced expensive front engine FWD cars!??
I have a dream.
What the he'll are we doing traffic jamming up and down 5 and 101 ? Or even big cramped commercial jet flying that route? The Stews are not that cute anymore. Compare it to the cost of 5 from San Diego to Seattle. Will we even get silk smooth highways like the Germans and 70s San Diegans again ? Brainiacs can solve this unsexy train crash problem and make it very much safer.
It might be Global warming too late, for all of us.
Can't even put coal power plant cleaners on, just yammer for decades in Congress about it.
It might be Global warming too late.
For all of us.
Iron algae farm the Galapago's ocean is just idle scientist talk in a crisis.
And I would really love to ride the Daylight and Lark trains again.
You would too.
I have a dream.
