Passenger train

@sunnflr (2767)
United States
August 28, 2008 6:30am CST
I saw a passenger train here in podunk Alabama the other day! I didn't even realize they had passenger trains here. I'm not sure if there were any people actually on the train. By the time I noticed what type train it was, it was too far away to see anybody. Do they still have passenger trains where you live?
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
28 Aug 08
Amtrak travels all over the country still as far as I know. I see the evening Seattle bound Amtrak flying down the tracks around 75 MPH. Like clock work it is on time nearly all the time too. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
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@sunnflr (2767)
• United States
28 Aug 08
This wasn't Amtrak, it was a very old silver train. Amtrak may go to Birmingham, but I doubt it comes to our little neighborhood..lol.
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@DonnaLawson (4032)
• United States
28 Aug 08
I really don't think they do here in Knoxville, TN, but am not completely sure.. I do see trains all of the time but I don't think that we have any passenger trains, or at least that I know of.. I hadn't really thought of it until you asked the question.. I will watch closer and maybe find out for sure, because I don't like to feel so dumb about my own city..
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@sunnflr (2767)
• United States
28 Aug 08
I didn't think they had any here either, and I'm not sure they still really carry passenger because I couldn't see any people. It will be cool to see if there are any more.
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@cwilson26 (2735)
• United States
28 Aug 08
I don't think we have passenger trains here in Ohio anymore but we do have trains that carry cargo. In fact, my mom got stuck behind one yesterday on her way home from work and normally they don't take that long to go through but the engineer was having problems with the train and had to keep stopping. My mom was stuck waiting, along with several other cars, for almost a half hour. :)
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@sunnflr (2767)
• United States
28 Aug 08
Oh yeah, we have all kinds of regular trains carrying cars, coal, and such too. I'm used to those cause they are everywhere. I've been stuck like your mom on more than one occasion.
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@INGA832 (1114)
• Russian Federation
28 Aug 08
We have such trains here coz my country is very large and not every person could by a ticket for plane. Besides it's very interesting to travel by train.
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@sunnflr (2767)
• United States
28 Aug 08
I would love to ride a train one of these days. I've been on small ones at national parks, but they are just little open air trains that go very slowly giving you a veiw of the park itself.
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