Comments on Kate's review of Amtrak
Amtrak
Description: USA's intercity and transcontinental passenger rail system.
Back to the Future
I grew up riding the train - to Chicago and the west coast and LOVED it. I was so sad to see train travel diminish as I grew into adulthood, but now I am a grandmother and have just taken a train trip with a grandson to Chicago and it's even better than it was when I was a kid. The seats are big - way more room than an airplane, the cars are quiet, there is still a "dome" car - now the lounge car, there are electrical outlets for computers or other electronic equipment and you can move around easily - plus you still have that great sense of being in a funhouse when you cross from one car to the other and have the floor moving and rails clacking beneath you. My hope and dream is that rail travel will continue to grow and my grandchildren will know that wonderful sense of traveling across our country and really seeing it all - backyards, small towns, mountains, farmland, industrial parts of our cities. As a people we need to invest in this form of transportation.
Kate's keywords: transportation, grandchildren
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