And on top of day trippers, railways enthusiasts also make a bee-line for places like Porthmadog just to
ride the rails, staying for days and pumping cash into the local economy.
Bold plans on the right track; DAILY POST OUR VIEW
Los Angeles World Airports spokesperson Nancy Castles advised "
Ride the rails to Union Station and catch our FlyAway [shuttle] to LAX, or ride the Green Line directly into LAX, or, if they really must drive, to really plan for several hours in advance of that."
Preparing for Carmageddon
Ride the rails with TV'S Ben Fogle as he takes us on his Top 10 train trips
Holidays
Take the scenic route and relax in comfort as you
ride the rails and enjoy splendid winter scenery across the Sierra to Reno aboard Amtrak's famous California Zephyr.
Gary Holloway walking tours
(2.) Even Nick Adams does not always
ride the rails. In "Big Two-Hearted River" for instance, we know he has paid for his ticket to Seney (where, as it turned out, "there was no town, nothing but the rails and the burned-over country") because he has been allowed to "check" his stuff: "Nick sat down on the bundle of canvas and bedding the baggage man had pitched out of the door of the baggage car" (163).
The jungle out there: Nick Adams takes to the road
They walk, hitch and
ride the rails to Spain to attend the funeral of the mother they never knew, and rarely speak, except when engaging with the slightly more colorful people they encounter along the way, who trigger in them either shared alienation or intense rivalry.
Give Me Your Hand
He will mine for gold, fish for salmon, experience the life of an electric lineman, log in Alaska's Southeast Panhandle,
ride the rails and much more.
'Tougher in Alaska': Alaska writer, journalist hosts weekly series on History Channel
-- Grammy Award winner Patty Loveless will once again
ride the rails as the special guest on the 2007 Santa Train, a holiday project that benefits children in the Appalachia region, co-sponsored by Abingdon, Va.-based Food City (K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc.), CSX Transportation, and the Kingsport, Tenn.
Country Singer Patty Loveless Returns for Third Ride on K-VA-T's 'Santa Train'
It was one thing for a dissertation completed only months after the Blue Line's opening to speculate that few would
ride the rails. But now that 70,000 people are riding each weekday Richmond should have explained who they are and where they are going.
Jonathan Richmond, Transport of Delight: the Mythical Conception of Rail Transit in Los Angeles
To take advantage of a billboard streetcar on Toronto's trendy Queen Street West, Lee Jeans staged 30 impromptu street fashion shows, blanket postering, pop music and sampling, and invited the media to
ride the rails on the Buddy Lee-branded streetcar with the Lee Jeans Squad.
Gold Quill Awards 2005: applauding innovation, rewarding excellence
You don't gotta
ride the rails to be the next big thing (though it sure don't hurt).
Goin' am
RIDE THE RAILS TO MEXICO Embrace the magic of a timeless culture when you travel by private train on the Sierra Madre Express to Mexico's magnificent Copper Canyon.
The directory
He hopes that his school will close down, leaving him and his best friend free to
ride the rails to the wheat harvests in the Dakotas.
Peck, Richard. The teacher's funeral: a comedy in three parts
And Charlie must find the 17-year-old niece of the man who taught him how to
ride the rails. The search for the missing girl takes place on the "High Line" a bastion of racism along the tracks of the Pacific Northwest.
The Drift