I never see the trains passing though here. I hope someday, I do.

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Looks like the high desert 🤠

Basically.

I hope you pass through it often

A few times a year. There's a campground nearby. I'm tempted to take it for a week, or until I see a train 😅

Are the tracks still used?

Yeah.

To me, trains are the among the most romantic aspects of our history.

There's something about their lumbering pace, the logistics, the terrain.

The massive steel. The smoke stack. The rhythmic sounds!

One time on a long highway trip I had to stop for an outdoor bathroom break at the side of the road. As I was doing my business a train was going by, I was looking right at it, and they let rip on the horn. I felt seen, and laughed.

#trainstories

That's hilarious and a great hashtag!

My best for #trainstories is probably that a conductor used to stop his train to get lattes from my shop, even though he'd block the crossings. People would get mad. They'd honk and curse at him as he walked back & forth. I asked him if he was worried about getting reprimanded for it & he told be that he'd already qualified for unconditional retirement months before. He finally retired and the new guy only stopped once. He was a little more worried about his job but he tried to uphold tradition.

That's a good one too 😂 I feel bad for the people inconvenienced, but good for him. Coffee is important!

I felt a little bad, too, for a while, until I realized those people would be stuck there for 10 or more minutes anyway. What's a few more? Lol

It's okay. I can take my model train and yacht model there—that counts as having been there.

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