I'll take the train

A local politician is trying to get train service established from Fort Wayne to Chicago (and back again, of course). I think this is a grand idea. I would take the train to Chicago.  In fact, given the opportunity, I will take a train just about anywhere. The last train ride I took was from King's Cross Station in London to Gretna Green in Scotland.  Some years earlier, a friend and I took the train from Venice to Milan and that was a lot of fun.  But the most exciting train ride I ever took was when I was about five years old. It was my second train ride but the first one that I remember.  The very first one was when my mother and I traveled to Fort Wayne from Baltimore, when I was 18 months old, to be with my father who was on his way home from Brazil, having been stationed there during the late stages of WWII.  What I remember about the train ride when I was five was that it was an overnight trip (Fort Wayne to Philadelphia) and that I stayed awake all night.  I remember loving the whole experience and watching with awe as we went around a horseshoe curve where I could see the engine of our train way up in front of us.  What I didn't appreciate at the time was that my parents, who were also dealing with my three year old brother, were probably really hoping that the 'rhythm of the rails' would lull me to sleep. Nope, didn't happen.