“TRAIN = enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off.” (Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914); yes, the famous American writer BIERCE was a cynic; nowadays, 100 years later, we all are obliged to follow “Political Correctness”, therefore our statement has to be, that riding a train is real fun. That making a journey opens our hearts. That traveling develops emotions and makes wise…
photo by JACK BYERS, click on the picture to enter his flickr galleries;
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more photos kindly sent to my group BLOG IT!, click on the pictures to enter the flickr pools of the various third party photographers:
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1 (big) “Glenfinnan Viaduct” by JACK BYERS
smaller:
2 “7 o’clock train ready to leave” by Rosmarie Wirz
3 “Mind the gap!” by maistora
4 “Sleeping Beauty” by Sushicam
5 “Musician – D Train – NYC Subway” by artcphoto
6 “Nice and Convenient Storage Room” by yushimoto_02 [christian]
7 “It’s full…” by manganite
8 “On The 2 Train” by B.C. Lorio
9 “Games people play” by maistora
10 “Movement & sex” by Evgeniy Korchak
11 “A Look of Warning” by just jb / Joan Barrett
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the last photo by myself, taken in Berlin:
Flickr Comments 
I think this is outstanding!
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I LOVE trains and these are outstanding photos..thank you. You made my day !
Peace,
Siggi in Downeast Maine
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Choo Choo! I’ve always loved trains. I really love your first landscape photo showing the curve of the train bridge. Nice share, Frizz. 🙂 Thanks.
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I love travelling on trains, sitting back and watching the world go by is very relaxing. Great photos!
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Stunning shots Frizz. I love trains. 🙂
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I love the shot of the train on the brick bridge. I want to wander by rail on a long overnight train ride somewhere. Don’t know where yet. Just somewhere.
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to book a royal train in Scotland is a cult; you have to be dressed very fine for several days a train-community enjoys themselves – better than in a cruise-ship …
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Really love BIERCE’s comment regarding trains, not all that wrong, actually.
Great collection of situations in trains.
Thanks for adding my pic (Swiss trains are different, of course, ha ha) !!!!!
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Nice collections. I guess that you like Japanese trains because I saw the photos many times. 🙂
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In my country trains are not so great
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There’s something special about trains…
history…
nostalgia…
possibilities…
I’ve always loved them!
🙂
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Any excuse for a train journey and I’m there!
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Nice collection of train scenery. I rode the bullet train in Japan. I enjoyed that experience, but I don’t have a photo.
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Fab, fab shots on the subject matter! Margie
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These photos are great! Excellent topic!
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Brilliant shots!
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Love each and every one of the train photos, but I am blown away by the overhead view looking down on that very red train in Berlin! Masterful photography here!
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I looked down on the red train from the TV-tower nearby, the “Alexander-Turm”
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City of New Orleans
© Turnpike Tom Music 1970
Riding on the City of New Orleans
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail
All along the southbound odyssey
The train pulls out at Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields
Passin’ towns that have no names
Freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles
Chorus
Good morning, America, how are you
Don’t you know me, I’m your native son
I’m the train they call The City of New Orleans
I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
Dealin’ cards with the old men in the club car
Penny a point, ain’t no one keepin’ score
Won’t you pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Feel the wheels rumblin’ ‘neath the floor
And the sons of pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father’s magic carpet made of steam
Mothers with their babes asleep
Are rockin’ to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they dream
Chorus
Night time on The City of New Orleans
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee
Half way home, and we’ll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rolling down to the sea
And all the towns and people seem
To fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain’t heard the news
The conductor sings his song again
The passengers will please refrain
This train’s got the disappearing railroad blues
Final Chorus
Good night, America, how are you
Don’t you know me, I’m your native son
I’m the train they call The City of New Orleans
I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
Repeat First Chorus
Good morning, America, how are you
Don’t you know me, I’m your native son
I’m the train they call The City of New Orleans
I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
These are Steve Goodman’s original lyrics, Arlo Guthrie later made shome changes.
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thanks Geoff! I sing this song very often to my guitar!
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