I've never driven a train, but I had an experience that came close. On one of our trips to Switzerland, we took the Glacier Express to Zermatt and then local trains to Montreux. My travel agent friend had connections with German Rail, and booked me on the Crystal Panoramic Express from Montreux. The trains on this route are special trains with bigger windows that are almost completely transparent so one does not miss any scenery.
https://www.trip.com/blog/there-is-a-journey-called-the-panoramic-train-journey/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldenPass_Line Our tickets had the car and seat numbers on them; I found what I thought was the right car, but there were no seats to match our tickets. Eventually, the conductor looked at our tickets and opened the front of the car, which I had assumed was the engineer's compartment, where there were four seats in the absolute front of the train, with nothing but glass ahead, to the sides, and overhead. (The engine was in the rear of the train. There we sat, mesmerized, as the train zig-zagged up the mountains, with views of Lac leman, Mont Blanc, the Alps, the Jura, and one quaint Swiss ski resort after another. There is no rail to compare with Swiss Rail, not even the Rocky Mountaineer. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 2:12 AM Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Aug 9, 2021, at 10:56 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It's not my job to drive the train, > > The whistle I can't blow. > > It's not my job to say how far > > The train's supposed to go. > > I'm not allowed to pull the brake, > > Or even ring the bell. > > But let the damn thing jump the track > > And see who catches hell! > > I once recited (a version of) that poem to a friend, but as it turned out > it was his job to drive the train. He has even taken me for rides in the > locomotive on a couple of occasions. It was very fun. > > > -- > Larry Colen > [email protected] > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
