Tag: life
group name: allaboard
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August 07, 2008 07:51 PM EDT --
All Aboard Life's Train
We get on, we get off, we're the conductor who's brave
We must make the ride successful from cradle to grave
Some tracks are nice, others are tough . . .
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August 05, 2008 07:38 PM EDT --
Whoo-whoo
All aboard
Conductor calls
You rest assured
A long train ride
From state to state
Quickest transport
Highest rate
Greatest views
Of country-sides . . .
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January 20, 2007 03:37 PM EST --
A few years ago I was staying at the Outdoor World Campground in Ogunquit, Me. We decided to explore the towns as we usually do. We came upon this gem- Old York. This was a historical town with alot of . . .
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January 31, 2007 05:58 PM EST --
It’s Funny, but I actually heard Born to Be Wild three times that first day. I laughed pretty hard the third . . .
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February 12, 2007 05:16 PM EST --
Riding on rails through the Canadian Rockies at 40 miles per hour was the last place I expected to find myself hunched over a Bingo card, teeth clenched, and dauber poised in anticipation of a single number: . . .
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January 06, 2007 11:27 AM EST --
It was our first visit to the home of some dear friends. We had corresponded with Frank and Marilyn for some time, but never met them. In person they were even more delightful than they had been through . . .
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May 02, 2007 04:33 PM EDT --
I have booked the AutoTrain for July. I paid the extra money for the Roomette....I am wondering just how small is it! will I be able to turn around....I have tried to look at the pictures but I am sure . . .
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January 19, 2007 12:58 AM EST --
Trains were part of my everyday life growing up. Hormels Meat Packing had their headquarters in my hometown of Austin, Mn. so I crossed the tracks leading into the plant daily. I must confess there were . . .
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February 05, 2007 09:29 AM EST --
Empire Builder -- the words conjure up visions of nineteenth-century entrepreneurs amassing tremendous fortunes. The Canadian-born transportation mogul James Jerome Hill was just such a man. Brilliant . . .
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January 17, 2007 09:11 PM EST --
Riding the Rails during the Great Depression
Berkeley Hackett made his first trip in 1929 at 13, riding with his stepfather from Flint, Michigan to Kalamazoo to get a summer job working in . . .
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February 27, 2007 09:33 AM EST --
If you think the best Boston-area seaside experience is on Cape Cod, it’s time to head north to Cape Ann. This destination is a granite-strewn apostrophe of land, a promontory that juts into the . . .
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December 15, 2006 01:56 AM EST --
The year before my 30th birthday, in between marriages, and feeling quite the "liberated woman" in the early 1980's, I set off on a three-week rail journey across the country. All . . .
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February 11, 2008 08:35 PM EST --
Live Chat with author Patricia Schultz LIVE CHAT
When Wednesday, February 13th
3:30 P.M. . . .
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November 18, 2006 11:22 PM EST --
Boston's South Station is only minutes from my fabulously located apartment so I left for a 5:20 train about two minutes passed 5pm. Since I only had one small bag – I'm an exceptional minimalist . . .
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January 22, 2007 02:49 PM EST --
I have precious few positive memories of my father. This is one and it’s probably the reason I still love this kind of street theater.
My dad was not a big traveler. Neither was he known for his . . .
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December 07, 2006 04:55 PM EST --
Growing up as the only child of two Type-A New Yorkers, my experiences with family vacations weren't what you could really call relaxing. Trips were as carefully planned and tightly coordinated as . . .
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August 01, 2008 05:54 PM EDT --
Those were the days
when we travelled without a plan,
A girl, sitting near the train window
rhyming in the whistle of time.
Mom smiled asking what I was humming.
I was lost in watching . . .
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April 25, 2007 05:57 PM EDT --
Boothill Cemetery, Tombstone Az.
Boothill Cemetery, Tombstone, Az.
There are Boothill Cemeteries all over the United States from . . .
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October 19, 2007 09:37 AM EDT --
The Adirondack Route: Montreal – Albany – New York
Welcome aboard! You’re about to take a tour of the first route in the Next Stop series: The Adirondack. For the next three . . .
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June 16, 2007 12:15 PM EDT --
When his father lost his job in 1931, Jim Mitchell saw his family slide to rock bottom in . . .
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