Tag: trains
group name: allaboard
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August 01, 2008 10:15 AM EDT --
I'm on the train to Glory, children,
Charging down that track
I'm on the train to Glory, children,
And I'm hangin' onto the back
I won't get off at the station, children . . .
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August 07, 2008 12:15 PM EDT --
It Happened Near Amtrak
I'd not ridden Amtrak before 2001
But I'd do more than ride before I was done.
We all gathered in Del Mar that bright sunny day
To wave to Don's . . .
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August 08, 2008 11:16 AM EDT --
A Matter of Good Training
Aboard the train I've time to think,
And thoughts come floating down
From thought balloons of puffy clouds
So light but still profound,
. . .
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April 28, 2008 01:57 PM EDT --
Last week my son, Vatsalya, won Choo choo train drawing contest Train Drawing Lucky Book Recipients! on Amtrak Presents:All Aborad group
His Drawing:
After that he was really . . .
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January 15, 2007 04:31 PM EST --
"There isn't a train I wouldn't take," Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote, "no matter where it's going." Me, too.
Sure, cars are convenient and democratic -- you can choose . . .
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January 23, 2007 04:42 PM EST --
Often, when a couple gets engaged, the bride-to-be enters into the wedding-planning process with a pretty clear picture in her head of what type of wedding she wants. Some have always dreamed of a sea-side . . .
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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 03, 2008 12:35 PM EDT --
My younger brothers almost from birth
Found the sound of trains to be calming
So my father would gather us into the car
And we would travel, not very far
To ride on the highway next to the . . .
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May 14, 2008 05:09 PM EDT --
Thank you to all of the participants in the Race to National Train Day in the All Aboard group . I hope you enjoyed boarding your train and jumping into the race!!! Whether the train was green , . . .
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May 09, 2008 02:40 PM EDT --
There's been some great fun had in the All Aboard group in celebration of National Train Day on May 10 th and it's time to recognize some of the excellent work that's been done! I know . . .
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November 28, 2007 03:42 PM EST --
How quickly American?s seem to turn their backs on our roots?the simple foundations on which our country was built upon. Some of these ideas, while seemingly outdated and maybe not the most convenient, . . .
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August 04, 2008 09:12 PM EDT --
"Next Stop Poem Contest Submission"
Night Train Serenade
On still summer nights
with the windows open wide,
I hear faint, familiar music;
steel . . .
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March 28, 2008 05:32 PM EDT --
Gideon's copy of DK Publishing's The Big Book Of Trains arrived today.
This is Gideon holding it up. See how it dwarfs his hands? LOL It's indeed BIG!
He immediately took it . . .
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April 18, 2007 08:55 AM EDT --
I have finally done it, for over 15 years I have planned to take the AutoTrain down to Florida. Yesterday I booked it.
I upgraded a tad,to a Roomette! I am getting older now and even though I love to . . .
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December 07, 2006 05:12 PM EST --
If ever there was a weekend to get out of town, this one was it. Rain and snow was in the forecast and, thanks to Thanksgiving and the biggest in-state football game of the year, roads were sure to be . . .
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July 22, 2008 05:48 PM EDT --
As children, we all grew up playing with trains and many of us attached a kind of fondness to them. We envisioned ourselves riding the rails heading to our "special destination." Some of us . . .
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May 08, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
Growing up in a small Midwestern town plopped down in the middle of nowhere but linked to everywhere by the Santa Fe freight and passenger trains that ran through our little burg left me with an abiding . . .
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August 12, 2008 09:35 PM EDT --
Destination R & R
Amtrak bullet train
humming and swaying
up the Eastern Seaboard,
but I'm not hurried
or harried.
I read.
I nap.
I strreeetch my . . .
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August 07, 2007 11:03 AM EDT --
“Good morning America how are you?
Don’t you know me I’m your native son....”
So begin the lyrics of “The City of New Orleans,” a plaintive piece written in . . .
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July 24, 2008 04:05 PM EDT --
Where or where are you oh mighty train
I see your steam but cannot hear your refrain
Is that you coming around the bend
Will you bring my loved ones from their end
Where or where . . .
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