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Originally Posted by skyguy79
Sorry, didn't mean to imply that it was anything more than informational. As for the Montrealer, it can be one gorgeous trip in the fall if you hit the changing of the colors at just the right time. Although I have logged over 43,000 passenger rail miles over the years, I never got to take the Montreal trip out of Rennselaer. I guess it was just too short a trip for me or the fact that I just don't travel for the view exclusively.
Most of my miles have been cross country round trips. I also have an Amtrak Guest Rewards account and have accumulated enough points to travel two more cross country round trips in a handicapped accessible room, meals included, without having to spend a single cent for the reservations. When we moved here in 2011, I took the Autotrain and didn't have to pay a cent for that reservation either.
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I totally understand. Glad you posted the hyperlink to the actual photo of the bridge. We live in Vermont and although we do go over to your old "neck of the woods" when we need to get on the N.Y. Thruway or the Northway........or when we head "west" under the Great Lakes, I really could not name your bridges.
I was going to post it the day the Canadians announced the terror plot, but then something else came up..........but I'm glad I finally did.
We also took the auto train once from Florida to Virginia but that was a very long time ago.......in 1974 when we were returning back to Vermont from one year in Satellite Beach, Florida. Our son was 2 going on 3 and our daughter was just turning 6. She had gone to kindergarten on Patrick Air Force Base. That "era" was when there were LONG GASOLINE LINES at the pumps.........Florida was nice; we just missed the four seasons.....were still in our 20's.
I have friends in New Jersey who love to take Amtrack out of Penn Station to visit their adult kids in Raleigh North Carolina.......rather than brave the N.J. Turnpike and 95 all the way down. Great fans of the train system.
They can relax, read a book, etc.
We also took the train from Rennsalaer to New York City.....then a cab to Grand Central Station (that was an experience for our little girl and myself; all the homeless folks inside the station; in the ladies room on the floors, etc.........coming from Vermont it was different and a bit scary at that time, in the 1970's......we actually saw a fight break out right in front of us in the grand concourse between two homeless men)........
Train travel was how my dad would come from N.Y.C. to N.J. to court my mom !!!!!!!!!!!
My aunts would all take me on the "L"....or "El" for elevated train tracks when I was about 4 and 5..........and we would visit them in N.Y.C.
I still remember going by and "looking into the various apartments" right through the windows as the train was really up high..........
I appreciate your input on the foiled terror plot.........