New Orange Line Trains

Morning Glory said:
I hate the underground. When I lived in London, I travelled by London cab mostly or bus - or often walked. I just hate being enclosed underground with crowds of people.
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I don't like the NY Subway, but the London Underground was fine, IMO. Unlike the NY Subway, it was clean, and I didn't have to be ready to punch some low-life in the face.

We actually have a pretty decent light rail system in Dallas. There has been a plan for a high-speed rail system between Dallas a Houston for 20-plus years, but conservatives in the State legislature keep blocking the funding. Seems that public transportation is "communism" in Texas politics. "That don't burn enough oil."

CD
 
caseydog said:
What are you waiting for? Go somewhere, for no reason at all. Just go, find a bar, have a beer, and go back. Why? Because it's free.

CD
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My mate uses it all the time. Me I'm a snob when it comes to public transport. I havnt ridden a bus in 50 years, or a train. In saying that my mate wants me to take the ferry to quail island. I will go just because as you say I should try something different.
This will involve a car trip to lyttleton first. I will start a thread of my day trip when we do it. I promise .


Russ
 
rascal said:
My mate uses it all the time. Me I'm a snob when it comes to public transport. I havnt ridden a bus in 50 years, or a train. In saying that my mate wants me to take the ferry to quail island. I will go just because as you say I should try something different.
This will involve a car trip to lyttleton first. I will start a thread of my day trip when we do it. I promise .


Russ
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Yes, do it. I love a ride on a ferry. I ride a ferry to Bolivar Peninsula to go camping on the beach. It is wonderful to breathe the fresh ocean air for 40 minutes on the ride.

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caseydog said:
Yes, do it. I love a ride on a ferry. I ride a ferry to Bolivar Peninsula to go camping on the beach. It is wonderful to breathe the fresh ocean air for 40 minutes on the ride.

CD
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I did the ferry ride to quail island when my son was about 10 for a school trip. I was a parent helper. All the kids wanted to be in my group (6 kids per adult). They knew I was an easy touch. I loved the trip exploring the island.
I will do this trip again after 35 years!!
Russ
 
caseydog said:
Yes, do it. I love a ride on a ferry. I ride a ferry to Bolivar Peninsula to go camping on the beach. It is wonderful to breathe the fresh ocean air for 40 minutes on the ride.

CD
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When I lived in Plattsburgh, NY, the fastest way across/around Lake Champlain and over to Vermont was to take the ferry across.

I fell in serious love with a deckhand on the ferry. I weighed all of 130lbs soaking wet at the time, and she had to be a descendant of the original Amazons, as she was about 6’2” and probably had a hundred pounds on me, but she carried it well.

For about a month, I rode that damn ferry over to Vermont and back every chance I got, mooning over that girl, until one of the guys on the boat told me I was barking up the wrong tree; she already had a girlfriend, which was pretty salacious back in small-town upstate NY in 1986.

“I prob’ly saved yer life, anyway,” he said, looking me over, “cuz she’d snap ya in two before ya even got it outta yer pants.” :laugh:
 
TastyReuben said:
When I lived in Plattsburgh, NY, the fastest way across/around Lake Champlain and over to Vermont was to take the ferry across.

I fell in serious love with a deckhand on the ferry. I weighed all of 130lbs soaking wet at the time, and she had to be a descendant of the original Amazons, as she was about 6’2” and probably had a hundred pounds on me, but she carried it well.

For about a month, I rode that damn ferry over to Vermont and back every chance I got, mooning over that girl, until one of the guys on the boat told me I was barking up the wrong tree; she already had a girlfriend, which was pretty salacious back in small-town upstate NY in 1986.

“I prob’ly saved yer life, anyway,” he said, looking me over, “cuz she’d snap ya in two before ya even got it outta yer pants.” :laugh:
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Lol, I barked up the wrong tree as well as a youngster. Shame!

Russ
 
Does anyone know why most subway trains are black in the front ends of the cars? Is it something new to make them look better? 🤔
 
caseydog said:
What are you waiting for? Go somewhere, for no reason at all. Just go, find a bar, have a beer, and go back. Why? Because it's free
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Dead right - I second that. Just get on a train/bus and get off when you arrive somewhere interesting.
I did that in London a month or so ago, when I first arrived. Took a train to Waterloo, then just wandered, pretty aimlessly, all around the West End. It was so much fun, I did the same again the following day!
 
rascal said:
My mate uses it all the time. Me I'm a snob when it comes to public transport. I havnt ridden a bus in 50 years, or a train. In saying that my mate wants me to take the ferry to quail island. I will go just because as you say I should try something different.
This will involve a car trip to lyttleton first. I will start a thread of my day trip when we do it. I promise .


Russ
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I love ferry boats! I like the really big ones. When we went to Nova Scotia, we took a ferry from New Brunswick across the Bay of Fundy (Gulf of Maine). It was so big there were semi trucks on it in the parking area, along with a slew of cars and passenger trucks. I think it took us almost 2 hours to go across the bay? We saw pilot whales from up top. Oh that was such a great trip!

Edited to add that I like trains, too. Love them. I want to take a train trip across Canada someday, one of my sisters and I were looking into it before the pandemic struck.
 
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