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I'm looking at the various rail passes. They each come with a specified number of "segments" I'm not sure what defines a segment. Do you have to get off the train? On an Empire Builder run from Portland to Chicago, is that one segment? Or does the run from Portland to Spokane constitute a...

I grew up in the North Miami and North Miami Beach area and remember the FEC strike very well. We used to fish for mullet from the tressell over the Uleta River by Greynolds Park. One night the bridge was blown up. It was right before Easter and the cars were loaded with peeps and other Easter...

In 1967, 8th grade North Miami Junior High sponsored a trip to Washington D.C. for several North Dade schools. Mr. Bosco - history teacher and Miss Monday were chaperones. Each school had separate cars for boys and girls. In D.C., each school was on separate buses. It was an old SCL. Train...

On the River Runner last month the freight train ahead lost its brakes. We sat behind them for 5 hours until AMTRAK finally sent a bus to finish the last 20 miles to K.C downtown. Never a word was spoken by the crew until the bus was on the way.