Amtrak in Oregon City...

[WAYNO]

I've not ridden a scheduled train since 1965, but I like the idea our semi-little town has its own train station.
My boy ended up needing the train yesterday, and it was so easy to pick him up close to my house.

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[Tenbore]

Semi-little? OK.

 

[Jeepnik]

We've got a pretty nice train ride from L.A. to San Diego on the Pacific Surf liner. Usually costs less that $150. My wife and I take it from time to time down to San Juan Capistrano for the day. While expensive compared to a car ride, the scenery, and relaxation are well worth it.

 

[WAYNO]

Normally I'd have no idea in the scheme of things, what train rides cost. In this case, from Eugene to Oregon City was 15 bucks.

 

[Cholo]

That's a bargain! Google says it's about 105 miles. I'd take one just to take one because I've never been on a train that wasn't a subway.

 

[Armybrat]

Last train ride I took was an overnight trip from Monterrey, Mexico to Mexico City in December 1960.
Pretty nice fun ride then, and the railroad had thoughtfully patched all the bullet holes from the last revolution.

 

[Watertender]

If I take Amtrak I go in business class. The extra fare is worth it. The last time I rode in coach it was like a cattle car complete with the odor. Some people have no concept of soap and water.

In the words of a guy I knew when I worked at the prison ..... some of them were "stankass mofos"

 

[blume357]

Just to be slightly political.... we could have spent the trillions of dollars we wasted on trying to save the mid-east so we could keep buying rich moslems oil on building the best high speed train system on the planet..... this would have employed all those young people and they would have been safer and not lost arms and legs and be killing themselves now.

Wife and I used to take the train (Amtrak) up to D.C. often back in the 90's. But we used to get a sleeper.

Most interesting train ride I ever took was from Krakow Poland to Split Croatia back in 2008.... 32 hours.....

 

[trebor44]

First train ride was on a steam loco, since then have done diesel, electric and Amtrak. The 'relaxation' effect is well worth the ticket price. But it does get a little cold in winter when the heat in the cars don't work so good!

 

[Jeepnik]

Blume. No we can't build a workable high rail system. Politicians and greedy construction firms prevent it.

Lock a California's much touted high speed train. Supposed to go from L A to NorCal. Started decades ago, billions spent and scaled down so many times the cost of rail mile is astronomical.

Railroads were built by private enterprise with minimal government oversight. That can't happen today.

 

[rugeraficiando]

I've not ridden a scheduled train since 1965, but I like the idea our semi-little town has its own train station.
My boy ended up needing the train yesterday, and it was so easy to pick him up close to my house.

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Did you take your son to Coasters? Not hijacking your thread.

 

[kmoore]

That's always been a nice stop.

 

[Kevin]

I've always loved train travel and used to take the train often in Bulgaria. Once or twice I got to ride on the Orient Express. It was quite a different train from the regular commuter trains in the country.

We took a sleeper car once from Plovdiv over to Varna on the Black Sea. This was in 1993. And I do remember it being very nice and comfortable.

Here in the states I've taken the train from Missouri out to Idaho and back. That was an adventure.

 

[WAYNO]

Did you take your son to Coasters? Not hijacking your thread.

I've never been in there.

 

[rugeraficiando]

I've never been in there.

Very decent in house prepared food. Prices haven't skyrocketed like others in our area. Food quality IMO is better than most in this price range.

 

[Bob Wright]

I'm remided of the line from a western movie:

"When is the noon stage due in?"

"Usually gets in about 4:00 o'clock."

"Why do they call it the 'noon stage'?"

"Had to call it sumthin..."

That was what killed passenger trains. Time tables were a farce.

Bob Wright

 

[jimbo1096]

Always wanted to ride the Orient express. It would be one of my bucket items. I'm sure it's not the same as when Hercule Piroit rode it.
I did take the Grand Canyon right away last year And hope to take a few more excursion trains before my end of the line comes. Another one would be the trans-Canadian railway.
Back in the day when I lived in San Diego, we would often take the train to Los Angeles and back. That would be excursion trailers on the open ended observation 1509 and the El Capitan.
I've never taken Amtrak and I've heard horror stories from others who have

 

[6GUNSONLY]

I rode a passenger train once when I was a kid, I barely remember anything about it. It was a short trip. Wife and I have ridden the narrow gauge railroad from Chama, NM to Antonito, CO, that was fun. Rode some commuter trains in Europe a few times. We checked into Amtrak one time when we lived in New Mexico re taking the train back to Alabama for a visit. It would have been Deming, NM to Birmingham, AL. But tickets were more than airfare would have been for the same trip, you had to lay over overnight in New Orleans, and someone would have still had to drive two hours to pick us up in Birmingham, so it really wasn't a good option. We thought it would be a neat experience for the kids. I wish it was a viable/available form of transportation in this country. Seems like we're missing a good thing.

 

[Jeepnik]

You don't take a train for efficiency or speed. You take it for the journey. Slow down, take the train and enjoy life instead of flying over it or speeding past it on a road as boring as the sky outside the plane.

 

[WAYNO]

You don't take a train for efficiency or speed. You take it for the journey. Slow down, take the train and enjoy life instead of flying over it or speeding past it on a road as boring as the sky outside the plane.

Even though it was only a two hour ride, my boy said this was so much nicer than flying.