The WildClickers take the train to the Rainforest. Track 61

pwayfarer, got it - thanks.

Ms DarlingWayfarer - you can click on any of the options on the Race for the Rainforest page - all 3 options count - that is why I've been posting the total totals as well as the subgroup totals more often.

Once you've registered at Able2Know you can post on any thread on the site- unless it is locked. The thread you're referencing was locked when I took a look at it last night.

You are not restricted to particular threads or fora - the whole site (pretty much) is available for you to post on.

I've been thinking about a 'story' thread again - but I'd need my gang to come with me.

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link to this story - and the rest of the adventure

The City of New Orleans
by Steve Goodman

Riding on the City of New Orleans,
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
All along the southbound odyssey
The train pulls out at Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields.
Passin' trains that have no names,
Freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.

CHORUS:
Good morning America how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car.
Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score.
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor.
And the sons of pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel.
Mothers with their babes asleep,
Are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.

CHORUS

Nighttime on The City of New Orleans,
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee.
Half way home, we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rolling down to the sea.
And all the towns and people seem
To fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news.
The conductor sings his song again,
The passengers will please refrain
This train's got the disappearing railroad blues.

Good night, America, how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

©1970, 1971 EMI U Catalogue, Inc and Turnpike Tom Music (ASCAP)

Neat, ehBeth. I like your story and the song just keeps on rollin.

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Cool, ehBeth!


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Not much time to travel with you- just waving from the platform.

Trying to find a French train for wayfarer today.
Le Train Bleu- London-Paris-French Riviera.

The first time I heard about this train was in a story by Agatha Christie. Today I learned that a ballet was named after this train.

http://www.letrainbleu.com/about.html

In Paris there is a restaurant Train Bleu-

http://www.le-train-bleu.com/us/page1.html

celebrating Bastille Day there or in the streets of Paris?

ul, that is fascinating. It would be great fun to ride the train to the restaurant for some really good French food.
How are you enjoying your summer holiday? Any good stories?

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Danon, I started a summer holiday project: renovating, getting a new kitchen, and more odd jobs. It is fun!

ul, very nice links, thanks. What a georgous dining room!

<There I'd be sitting in the most luxurioius restaurant in France, wondering who cleans the chandelier> ! This homebody definitely should take a vacation. LOL

How the weather where you are Danon and Ul? Yesterday, the temps were triple digits, very hot with not a breeze - today the forecast says temps will be higher. <105 yesterday>

ul, sounds like you'll be a busy lady for the duration of the summer. Have fun decorating!

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listening to this on the radio right now

Whistle Gone
Connie Kaldor © SOCAN BackLyrics


Look at that little town, look at that railroad track
One day the train left, and it never came back
And town hasn't been the same since then
It's just dusty streets and remembering when

Ooooee, you just keep carrying on
Nothing more lonesome than a whistle when it's gone
Saddest thing you'll ever come upon
Nothing more lonesome than a whistle when it's gone

Now when I was young, I'd talk to the old Métis
My dad's hired men living in the coulees
Once they were the kings of the plains and beyond
But they lost it all now that the buffalo's gone

Chorus

And I didn't see it coming. How was I to know?
You walked into the room and said "it's time for me to go"
And you didn't want to work at it, you didn't want to stay
You had some golden future calling you away

Chorus

Chorus

There's nothing more lonesome than a whistle when it's gone

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http://www.conniekaldor.com/all_about/music/discography/love_is_a_truck/whistle_gone.html#

Eh Beth:
Sorry I haven't been on the train, had to get off and attend to unfinished business! been clicking every day though! I swear, these stations look like the ones here on the Jersey Shore. Full of character, history and anostalgic throwback to the days of the old "Iron Horse"! There was a train called the "Blue Comet" that took its' passengers down to Atlantic City to the seashore. The old Bradley Beach train station mentioned in Portnoy's Complaint is just up the street and the North Asbury Train Station is there but is now an antique store. Still looks like a train station. The big red barn in Red bank is still there too! Oh take me back to 1896, when women wore their bustles, big hats and corsets! Oh and bloomers!

Hi teeny,

ehBeth,
Some things more lonesome than a whistle when it's gone=

"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever know."

"The sound of silence."

"Tonto missing his que."

etc, etc, etc..........

big grin

Good morning all,

It's a good day for a clicking.

Thanks, Ul. And my very favorite is the Little Yellow Train.
http://languedocroussillon.free.fr/ptj.htm

Do you all remember driving down the road to anywhere and reading the Burma Shave signs? Priceless!



The Job

I'm not allowed to run the train
The whistle I can't blow
I'm not the one who designates
How far the train will go
I'm not allowed to blow the steam
Or even ring the bell
But let the damn thing jump the track
And see who catches hell.
author unknown

Guys whose eyes
Are in their backs
Get halos crossing
Railroad tracks


He saw
The train
And tried to duck it
Kicked first the gas
And then the bucket

A Winters Cold
Getting to my Railway Shed's
like getting out of jail!
Attempts to slip out quietly
Inevitably fail.......
"You've been coughing and you're sneezing
like you're comming down with flu
if you go and make it worse
then I'm not looking after you!"
Replies must be immediate
Forthright, convincing, bold......
"I'b goin' to my railway
an' I habben godda code!"

A peanut sat on the railroad track,
His heart was all a flutter,
Here comes the 3:59
Toot toot
Peanut Butter

Train wrecks few
Reason clear
Fireman
Never hugs
Engineer

wayfarer, your little train is going through a beautiful landscape. We have been there, not by train but in our old 2CV.

Stradee-
peanut butter-

Still a long way to go before I can decorate- still tearing walls open, changing a bit of the floor plan- working like a good old steam engine to have finished this job by Wednesday.

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