This is a most excellent article Acacia wrote for anyone thinking about/interested in taking a train trip: Factoids About Trains, by the First-Timer, for the First-Timer: by Acacia Uible (ahhhh! I'm Uible, not Hillard now. Freaky!) There's an interesting mix of people who ride the trains. Some use them to commute (outskirts of chicago into town, for instance). These people get an affordable rate, so students and many others stay on for a short time. The people in for the long haul include: people who dislike air travel (out of fear, or for environmental reasons, or religious reasons-Amish/Menonnite), older people who find other travel difficult, people who like the adventure, or people who have and like the time that it takes to travel. You almost never see people who are in a hurry, the disabled (I
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