Traveling By Train

I left my childhood home to take a nationwide train ride, to meet my love who had gone ahead and was waiting for his bride. It took me two nights and a day to reach his loving arms. I had a happy tale to tell of the train ride and its charms. Since then of course I've taken many long fast trips by air, knowing all the while, it made no sense that the plane could stay up there. I've also taken vacation trips with my family in a car, but I recall that first train ride as more exciting trip by far. My one stop was in Chicago, where I didn't leave the train depot, until the train to Detroit pulled in and it was time for me to go. I had never before been far from home and beloved and well known faces, but secretly had often yearned for exciting, exotic places. I felt so safe on that long train with no fear of an accident. I knew the train had tracks of it own on every mile it want. In those war years, the passenger train was the only way to go and I've taken many more trips on them, sometimes with small children in tow. It seemed like a magic bullet as it carried us, you know, and no matter our destination, that big train knew where to go. for the train contest.