Story Challenge Letter “R”

Hello to all Bloggers, especially to those who participate in the Weekly Story Challenge Letter.  This weeks letter is “R”.   Do you have to share a story or a short reflection tagged with the letter “R”?  For example, Frizz wrote about some RIVER memories see the following to read more:  http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/story-challenge-letter-r/,  more examples:  about Russia or Rome, Robin Hood or Robinson Crusoe, about how to resist or how to retreat, how to roar and how to rest, about Rio de Janeiro or Rembrandt, about rainy days or rough racism, Route 66 and the Rolling Stones, James Rizzi or Renzo Piano, religion and rust, Condoleezza Rice or Rocky Raccoon, about revolvers and restaurants, riots and revolutions etc. – I’m sure you’ll find an own story or a short reflection tagged with “R”! Feel free to add in the comments the link to your personal interpretation of the letter “R”!!

Here is what I came up with this week.  Railroad.  Some history of the Railroad according to Wikipedia:  In 1825, the inventor, John Stevens, built a test track in Hoboken, NJ and ran a locomotive on it.  In 1830, the Baltimore and Ohio officially opens in Maryland.

In 2002, A few friends and I waited at the New Orleans Amtrak Station to take the train to Atlanta, for a Women of Faith conference.  The first photo is of an Old Railroad car, the San Marino.  Sorry for the white subject, but my friend did not want to stay in the photo.  (Ghostly)

The San Marino rail car, on the track at the Amtrak Station in NOLA
My friend wanted not to be included, so she is now the ghostly figure.

My next photo shows the Amtrak train pulling into the station, there in NOLA.  You can also see, a lot of Railroad tracks.  I enjoyed riding Amtrak.  I rode the train to Chicago to Indiana and back a couple of times.  I have been to North Carolina a couple of months after 911.  security was tight, but not intrusive.  As a teen, I rode from Indiana to Chicago and Indiana to Washington D.C. both round trips.  I loved every minute on the train.  It rocks you like a cradle…making it easy to sleep.

The Amtrak station platform where this Amtrak train is coming into, in NOLA. Look at all those Railroad tracks…where do they all go?

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