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Well, my favorite place to have morning coffee is right here at home with Wild Child the wife.

Now, if you're talking my favorite place to eat that has a view of rails, well, there's only a couple/three eat joints that have a view of rails in my region.

Of those, I would say that I enjoy the view (and the food is great) at a little country store at Rich Mountain, AR by the imaginative name of Rich Mtn Country Store. There are rails across the highway and if you sit at the correct table, you can see them out the window.  The rails are those of the KCS. (For now.)

A pic of the store. That's Wild Child and her Yamaha XT225. That's the little Rich Mountain Country Store behind her, and if you look close (far right, across the highway), you'll see the KCS rails cresting the Rich Mountain grade.

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Often a freight will rumble by while doing lunch at the Rich Mtn Country Store. Here's a pic I snapped of one while leaving the Country Store on a different day. (That's one of my bikes in this pic.)

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Andre

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All the track from the West Shore RR has been removed from West New York, New Jersey.  There is a new light rail station at 49th Street and Bergenline Avenue in West New York, New Jersey. Take the elevator down 150' to the tunnel station stop that goes from the Meadowlands of North Bergen to the Hudson River in Weehawken, the Lackawanna Terminal in Hoboken, Downtown Jersey City and ends up in a place "you cannot get there from here", Bayonne NJ. But there are no longer any freight trains going through that WNY tunnel, like there was when I was a kid walking the then empty side of the mile long, used to be double track tunnel, in the '50s.

Rereading this thread reminded me of one of my clients.  Due to no real reason they purchased a home along the NE corridor here in SE PA.

Their very quiet adult son with a developmental issue had a private interest in trains but it did not connect with the parents in home selection.

Now he comes alive when ever a train rolls by a mere 150' from his bedroom.  Which, if you know anything about the NE Corridor is quite often.

Trains became a precious gift to the whole family!

@wnyjohn posted:

All the track from the West Shore RR has been removed from West New York, New Jersey.  There is a new light rail station at 49th Street and Bergenline Avenue in West New York, New Jersey. Take the elevator down 150' to the tunnel station stop that goes from the Meadowlands of North Bergen to the Hudson River in Weehawken, the Lackawanna Terminal in Hoboken, Downtown Jersey City and ends up in a place "you cannot get there from here", Bayonne NJ. But there are no longer any freight trains going through that WNY tunnel, like there was when I was a kid walking the then empty side of the mile long, used to be double track tunnel, in the '50s.

John, I was talking about Western New York State. The Buffalo, NY area.

Clem,

Are you part of the Blissfield Club?  Reason I ask is because, being this close, maybe you'd want to run some trains with the Swanton Area Railroad and Model Club at our events.  You'd certainly be welcome!  We have a meeting this Friday (7/9/2021) in the white pole barn in your first video.

Dennis

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Tom,

I love the trains that come through Swanton, EXCEPT for the ones that make us late for church on Sunday mornings !

Back in 1980, when I was the Engineer on No.3, the Southwest Chief, if we were on-time, we came flying through Cucamonga about 20 minutes after Sunday mass had begun in a little church adjacent to the track.  There was a road crossing there, and the Nathan air horns on the Amtrak F40PH's were very loud.  

We didn't make anybody late for church, but several pf the parishioners, and maybe the priest too, might have wished that we were "late for mass".

In The Plains, VA there is a truly excellent restaurant called Girasole. Very nice authentic Italian place. A bit pricey but one does need to treat oneself occasionally.  One room (my favorite) overlooks a NS line. Every time we go I ask for that room. By the window. Every time I see NS power pulling mostly double stacks with other cars mixed in.

Frank

Clem...

OMG!  That's the first time in a long time...maybe never!?...that I saw the inside of the baggage car fully lighted...at speed!   Either someone forgot to turn off the lights after the last station stop, or there's a card game afoot inside!?

I'll stop wondering why folks complain about the mfrs not putting factory lighting in the baggage cars!  Shame on me!

BTW...Love that sky!  Nice catch!!

KD

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