Recent content by steamboat28

I haven't taken many. I've been a sleepy Sasquatch. But I'll do what I can!

Sorry to drag this thread back up, but I wanted to thank everyone for their responses. I'm on the ride home now (Zephyr to CoNO layover starts in like ten minutes) and this has been a lot of fun. My only disagreement has been that "you can't even tell you're on a bridge..." as the barge staring...

This, exactly. I know it's perfectly safe or they wouldn't pass trains across it twice a day. I know it's examined once in a while to make sure it's still structurally sound. I know that it won't take nearly as long to cross this bridge as I think it will, and it's less of a big deal than I'm...

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Thank you. I was trying to figure out how long it'd take to be back on solid ground, and I didn't have all the numbers. My brain is weird when it comes to things like this--most of my anxiety and fear comes from the feeling that I have no control over things, so the idea that it'll be pitch...

that actually make me slightly more nervous, but thanks for the info! Sent from my XT1049 using Forum Fiend v1.1.7.

Hi! I'm a rail-travel newbie (my first trip is in a week or two) and I'm really excited about taking the CoNO and the California Zephyr because I've always been swayed by the romance of train travel. Except one thing: I'm scared of bridges. Not little tiny bridges, those are fine, but big ones...