6 May 2010: Tracks

Just the tracks near our house...

2 May 2010: All Aboard!

Choo Choo!!!

30 April 2010: Rickety Bridge

I've driven under this bridge hundreds of times. The closer I got to it to take a picture, the scarier it became. I may start taking the long way around. I certainly never want to be going under it while a train is going over it!

2 March 2010: Toot Toot

If only our train system was better in the U.S., I would spend a lot less time in my car!

20 February 2009 Photo: Reflective Movement

I am on my way home tonight...taking the red eye. My route is PDX-ORD-SYR and in 2 of these 3 cities, it is snowing! I just hope that I am not delayed in Chicago. Anyway, I was going to take the super shuttle to the airport but the idiot at the Hilton neglected to tell me that the last one was at 7:20PM so I had to run to catch the train to the airport. It worked out fine, I just was a bit more rushed than I would have liked but here I am at the airport wishing for safe on-time travel.

13 January 2009 Photo: Choo Choo Charlie

We have train tracks behind our house. When we first moved it, I was jarred awake every night/early morning to the sound of the train whistle as there is also a railroad crossing signal just down the road. I swear the conductor blew that whistle for 2 miles on either side of that crossing. It did not take long before I could barely hear it and now at night, I sleep right through it. Too bad that is not the case with my husband's snoring!

Anyway, as I was taking this picture today, I thought of an old Good n Plenty commercial . I am not sure how I remember this commercial as it supposedly stopped running before I was born.