Here’s something that seems sort of out of place in today’s age of jet travel. A high speed (well a simulated high speed compared to other countries true high speed trains), train tour. If you’re from Southern California the most you will ever see of any trains it seems is stopping in downtown Los Angeles Union Station.

Trains are not too common a sight away from there. When I lived in Chicago a few decades ago I lived near a train overpass which had about thirteen tracks and I saw and heard oh so many trains. What ever happened to all the trains? As far as I know there is nothing like the Acela Express here in California.

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