Good Reasons to Travel by Train

Reduce the Anxiety - Ride the Rails

There are lots of good reasons to travel by train. Since the time when I went to college in D. C. and my family was living in Massachusetts I have taken to train travel like a fish to water. Today as a senior citizen I still enjoy traveling by train when taking long trips like visiting my daughter and her family in Chicago or traveling back to my old haunts in Washington D. C. Of course not every hour that I have spent on a train has been a joy ride. I have been on a train that caught fire and a train so full of holiday travelers that my seat was on top of my suitcase , I sat in a dining car when all the lights went out in the middle of dinner and existed on a long train ride on a family sized chocolate bar and a can of Fresca. But I still favor trains over other means of transport partly out of habit but mostly because of these good reasons to travel by train.

Trains Tend to Be on Time. I'm a person who doesn't really like to wait for the action to get going. If a movie is supposed to start at 3:30 p.m. I don't want to still be distracting myself with popcorn at 3:45 p.m. So when I decide to take a trip I want that trip, no matter how long it is going to take to accomplish, to begin with some reliable promptness. I have found from experience that trains, by and large, are like me, creatures of habit. If there is a 9:30 a.m. train leaving from Providence ,RI to go to New York, you had better be there on time because the train will be and it will also generally leave on time. Sadly this is not true of air flights today, nor is it true if you decide to drive yourself. That morning departure time always gets bumped up a half hour or an hour for one reason or another. No give me the train, for the most part it will leave on time and my vacation has begun.