Showing posts with label railroads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label railroads. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Quote: Jack Kerouac ...
" ... so I had sneaked into San Francisco as I say, coming 3000 miles from my home in Long Island (Northport) in a pleasant roomette on the California Zephyr train watching America roll by outside my private picture window, really happy for the first time in three years, staying in the roomette all three days and three nights with my instant coffee and sandwiches -- Up the Hudson Valley and over across New York State to Chicago and then the Plains, the mountains, the desert, the final mountains of California, all so easy and dream like compared to my old harsh hitch hikings before I made enough to take transcontinental trains ..."
-- from Big Sur, 1962
-- from Big Sur, 1962
Friday, April 16, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Quote: Vladimir Nabokov ...
"That life-quickening atmosphere of a big railway station where everything is something trembling on the brink of something else."
-- from "Spring in Fialta," 1956
-- from "Spring in Fialta," 1956
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Quote: Thomas Bell ...
"Like cities, railroad stations were most exciting at night; and beyond question the finest way to begin a journey was to board a midnight train."
from Out of this Furnace, 1941
from Out of this Furnace, 1941
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
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