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Stuff We Like #13

2/11/2015

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Welcome to another funfilled week of Stuff We Like with our lovely squirrel, Freddy MacKay.

*waves*

Hello!

This week I'm discussing my love of the train. Not of trains themselves, but as a mode of public transportation.

I hate driving. Hate. Hate. Hate it. Always have. I really wanted to be a pedestrian when I grew up.

For six years I drove fifty miles everyday round trip for my job. I found I could do something more than hate. I loathed driving. I avoid it all costs. So when I got a job in the city and knew I could take the train, there was no way to contain my excitement.

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Even on days when the snows coming at you so hard it stings your face, I'm still more satisfied taking the train than I am driving. It doesn't even cross my mind to drive, because it's such an inconvienence. It also takes a lot of energy, and attention, which if you met me, you know what my attention span is like.

I just don't want to do it. I don't want to drive. I wish I lived in a city where public transit was a little better (like SF) but it's pretty decent here, and I enjoy the train rides into and out of work every day.

I've made friend buddies on the way in and out of the city, and I know several of the conductors. We take about innane things but that doesn't really matter. We enjoy each other's company and ask after each other when ones been gone. There is a communal comrodery when the first train in is late, again. (How does the first train manage to be late?) And I've even managed to get hooked up with some really nice Blackhawk tickets as a result of one of my buddies.

We have fun, talk, or sometimes just chill. It's a quick twenty-five minute trip. It's nice. And it's a hell of a lot better than sitting in my car, in traffic, for one and a half to two hours, just me and my radio.

Trains are so much better.

3 Comments
LeeAnn Pratt
2/10/2015 11:17:11 pm

I have only ridden in a baggage car of a train. Why you may ask...or not..lol Because my husband works for the railroad here in our small town and every year they take kids who have done exceptionally well in school and take them on a tour of beautiful places in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Except for that nasty bridge that is way too high for me and just typing about it makes me anxious! So even though I hear about trains ALL THE time and despite the fact that he works on them (inspector and welder) one day we want to go on an actual ride..in the passenger section!...big dreams...lol

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Freddy
2/10/2015 11:52:23 pm

That's really cool of them to take the kids puts like that. I would love a tour of the UP on train.

And that it is funny. Sometimes it's the simple things that the best goals. I would love to do a cross continent trip from Chicago to LA by train. I hope you guys get to be passengers too.

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LeeAnn Pratt
2/11/2015 10:16:06 am

He has been in charge of getting the cars ready and setting everything up for the past 10 yrs. Takes a long prep time to get everything in order and up to code every year. he's hoping soon someone else will take over...lol So far no one has volunteered. He has to leave here at 4 a.m. drive up to where the train is, ride it all day long then make sure there is a guard to watch it over night, then drive back home. gets home around 8 or so at night..not to mention the months leading up to it. By the time it is all over, we make plans to go on a mini vacation so he can reboot!..;)




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