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Train Travel

I hope you'll enjoy this old ten minute film about passenger train travel. It was made as an educational film and scripted at the grade school level.
Even so, the things I like about it are: a) it begins at Washington Union Station which is still very much in use and much more crowded, and b) the train featured is now Amtrak's Capitol Limited.  
https://youtu.be/pV3Ydb1yazg
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  1. Ann KennedyJuly 17, 2015 at 6:32 PM

    What a great ride! I would have loved seeing this in school! That area around Harper's Ferry is really beautiful. Remember teachers fumbling with those reel to reel projectors:-)  Great post, lots of fun!

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  2. Mike MartinJuly 17, 2015 at 6:42 PM

    Ann Kennedy - Glad you enjoyed it, but there will be a quiz.  (Kidding, kidding) I've not been to Harpers Ferry, just ridden past on the train. Maybe sometime after the weather cools this fall.

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  3. Margaret Siemers (Siemers Rafter Room)July 18, 2015 at 1:27 AM

    That was fun Mike Martin I enjoyed seeing the Dining car, and those old Telephone or Electric Poles along the track as the train went through the village. (I could never tell which was which) Thanks!

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  4. Mike MartinJuly 18, 2015 at 3:58 AM

    Margaret Siemers - Perhaps they were still tele graph poles in 1940! ;-)

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  5. Margaret Siemers (Siemers Rafter Room)July 18, 2015 at 9:55 AM

    Had not thought of that. Could be, like I said I can't tell the difference. LOL

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  6. Mike MartinJuly 18, 2015 at 11:08 AM

    Margaret Siemers - I was kidding. I think communications wires always paralleled the railroads, though.

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  7. Margaret Siemers (Siemers Rafter Room)July 18, 2015 at 11:35 AM

    Mike Martin I guess I can't tell about that either if I don't have an LOL to go by.  : )  
    Funny now that I think about it.

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