So, in November of 1987, I decided to take my first train trip. At least it was the first train experience I can remember.

I was headed down to Florida to visit my good friend Joy, who was a pal in college and and whom I had known back in Kansas City. This was the perfect time to go for a visit. I was in Chicago and it was the dead of Winter. You can imagine what it was like. All I could imagine was how warm Florida was going to be.

This journey was going to happen in 4 stages, 2 trains going and 2 trains coming back. On the initial part of the trip, I would take the Broadway Limited to Philadelphia and then wait to board the next train heading South, the Silver Meteor. The Broadway Limited passed through a large section of rolling Pennsylvania farmland, which one was able to glimpse out the windows. From time to time there would be hints of major industry.