We like Trains

"We Like Trains" is a classic Jim & Jesse album from the late 1960s or early 1970s. The songs are drawn from many songwriters, but each and every one resonates with me. I just love trains.

Here I am in the Great Hall of the train terminal in Chicago. I had just rolled in from Cleveland after dropping the boy off at college. I was met by the lovely and talented Therese at the station, who snapped a couple of shots.
If you have not visited the train station in Chicago, you are missing out. Anyway, that's the connection when you're traveling between Cleveland, my hometown, and Portland, OR, my current home. It's always a treat to ride the Empire Builder across this beautiful land--you go through Glacier National Park, many tribal reservations, the Wisconsin Dells, Milwaukee--it's a stunning trip of about 45 hours duration.

And the trip is bracketed by two of the most well-designed and maintained train stations in the nation: Portland and Chicago. There I am at the right, leaving the station as the lovely and talented Therese captures another of my many moods.
The Cleveland train terminal is a beauty, too, but Amtrak doesn't pass through it. Too bad. Another mistake that Cleveland probably will never correct.
Anyway, I like trains and I love the people who like trains. So if you like trains, too, look for me in the view car on the Empire Builder. I'll be the guy with the big smile on his face.