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From "It's Great to be Alive!" safety manual. I saw this page and just cracked up at the artwork and wording of the warning. The entire manual is here . Scan down further until you find the one about hiding in a pile of leaves, also a groaner.

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Train surfing

Shutdown of FAA possible in House-Senate clash Got a flight connecting to a train? :angry:

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No idea where this was. Video posted 5/2/11. Warning, some rough language near the end. youtube video

"North Coast Railroad Authority is auctioning a collection of vintage rail coaches that carried passengers on fabled western train routes." story here

But not everyone is happy about it. Said one unhappy pilot who asked to remain anonymous, "I really think I crossed the line and started touching myself inappropriately - I feel completely violated." TSA announcement.

Interesting 6 minute video, 4 reporters each take a bike, car, bus or rail to the Oakland International Airport. Who won? What did it cost? Who had the most fun? Why were they carrying pies? :ohboy:

Arrested in KC. Story here.

A man and a woman who had never met before, but who were both married to other people, found themselves assigned to the same sleeping room on a Trans-continental train. Though initially embarrassed and uneasy over sharing a room, they were both very tired and fell asleep quickly, he in...

We won't fly. Facebook. Official TSA groping guide T-shirt.

"The chairman of British Airways says the United States is making excessive demands about screening airline passengers, including insisting on measures it does not require on U.S. domestic flights." Full story here.

Preflight briefing on Cebu Pacific Airlines. youtube video

Anyone familiar with Railworks?

All info courtesy of our SCA on #29 leaving DC on 8/12. Posted from CUS while waiting for #7, on 8/13. As we were westbound out of DC we pulled over for 30 eastbound! I checked out the train as it passed; dining car nearly empty, lounge car with about a dozen people inside. This was about...

"The guy running the train is only about 6 or 7 feet from that whistle. You should try having to deal with listening to it constantly for 12 hour shifts at a time. I hate the noise. But I would rather deal with that than hit and kill someone any day." Engineer's rant on woman complaining of...

Leaving for the east coast tomorrow: CZ/CL/Regional to Connecticut. I forget, will we be served dinner on the CL leaving Chicago? Thanks!

We'll be arriving at WUS a week from Monday on the CL, and waiting for our regional connection north. It's been a while, is it easy to find the 1st class lounge?