Railroad Memories

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Riding a passenger train,

past a siding

where boxcars,

tankers,

coal carriers,

 flats,

and maybe even

a caboose,

waited,

was fascinating

to me as a child.

That is the Logo

of the

 Chessie System

[ That's a Link!]

Trains were dirty, and loud,

 and rattling.

But you could ride 

and sleep

with comfort on

 the C&O

Chessie was based on this painting.

I haven't been on a train

for a long time;

a long distance one,

with a compartment

for many years longer.

I remember the moments,

decades ago

early in the morning

[ traveling from Durango

to Philadelphia

via Chicago ]

rounding the  

Great Horseshoe Curve

[ another link! ]

watching it from my

rocking bunk.

I can still see pink

waves of

the Atlantic

lapping near the 

rails

of the line from

New York to

Boston-

again,

early in the 

morning.

[The "Night Owl"

left after midnight.] 

Some things

just stay 

with you-

LOOK! 

Chessie!

=^..^=

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