andersone
Conductor
My sainted mother, God rest her soul, was devoted to travel and especially loved train travel. She actually went to Glacier on the train in 1924 or so.
My first memory of LD train travel was about 1958 or so. On more then several occasions we would get on the OLD Zephyr, ride to Glenwood Springs (from Chicago) spend a night at the magnificent RR hotel there, and return the next day. My father especially loved it in the winter when there would be three feet of snow around the hot spring. Being and old Swede, he would jump out, roll in the snow, and jump back in the hot spring fed pool.
I am grateful to have had this background but saddened that I never passed the tradition on to my daughter, although I am taking She Who Must Be Obeyed around to my old haunts via LD. EB to Glacier this year, CZ to Yellowstone next (although 20 some odd years ago I took her to California on our honeymoon) via the CZ.
No matter how bad Amtrak gets, it still beats flying.
My first memory of LD train travel was about 1958 or so. On more then several occasions we would get on the OLD Zephyr, ride to Glenwood Springs (from Chicago) spend a night at the magnificent RR hotel there, and return the next day. My father especially loved it in the winter when there would be three feet of snow around the hot spring. Being and old Swede, he would jump out, roll in the snow, and jump back in the hot spring fed pool.
I am grateful to have had this background but saddened that I never passed the tradition on to my daughter, although I am taking She Who Must Be Obeyed around to my old haunts via LD. EB to Glacier this year, CZ to Yellowstone next (although 20 some odd years ago I took her to California on our honeymoon) via the CZ.
No matter how bad Amtrak gets, it still beats flying.