The Person Below Me (TPBM)

[Emon_Essex]

never been on a train, but
TPBM has been on Amtrak

 

[ccheese]

Yes, I have ridden Amtrak. I even rode the Royal Blue......

TPBM knows all about the Royal Blue....

Charles

 

[Lucky13]

Too late and in the wrong place for that B&O train....

TPBM tell us about the Sunset Limited....

 

[ccheese]

The Sunset Limited is a passenger train that for most of its history has run between New Orleans and Los Angeles, California, and that from early 1993 through late August 2005 also ran east of New Orleans to Florida, making it during that time the only true transcontinental passenger train in American history. From late August 2005 to the present, the train has remained officially a Florida-to-Los Angeles train, being considered temporarily truncated due to the lingering effects of Hurricane Katrina. The FY 2004 Sunset Limited revenues showed that 41% of the revenues came from the Orlando-New Orleans segment. At first (until late October 2005) it was truncated to a San Antonio-to-Los Angeles service; since then (from late October 2005 on) it has been truncated to a New Orleans-to-Los Angeles service. As time has passed, particularly since the January 2006 completion of the rebuilding of damaged tracks east of New Orleans by their owner CSX Transportation Inc., the obstacles to restoration of the Sunset Limited's full route have been more managerial and political than physical.

TPBM has never seen a real steam locomotive.....

Charles

 

[Gnomey]

I have and been on a couple too...

TPBM has never been on a train...

 

[Lucky13]

Oh he has, quite a few too....and worked as a fireman!

TPBM knows how heavy it can be to be a fireman, without the stoker....

 

[Catch22]

No, but I know all about Police work.

TPBM also knows about Police work.

 

[Emon_Essex]

Sorry I try to stay away from the fuzz....
TPBM also doesn't like cops

 

[Wayne Little]

Nah, can't say i dislike 'em....

TPBM has a day off work today.

 

[ScOoTeR1992]

hey i actually do to hehe

TPBM will tell us what he/she does for a living

 

[Lucky13]

Picking booze at night for delivery to the pubs, bars etc, during the day, around Glasgow and Scotland...

TPBM will now sing their National Hymn...

 

[ScOoTeR1992]

Australians all let us rejoice
For we are young and free
We've golden soil and wealth for toil,
Our home is girt by sea:
Our land abounds in nature's gifts
Of beauty rich and rare,
In history's page let every stage
Advance Australia fair,
In joyful strains then let us sing
Advance Australia fair.

god and I said that with one breath

TPBM will tell us how their country got their flag

 

[ccheese]

Tis rumored that Betsy Ross, on advise from George Washington, made the
first one by hand.....

TPBM took off today, making a long week-end of it....

Charles

 

[Wayne Little]

nah..but it is a long weekend here anyway!

TPBM is jealous......that we have a long weekend!

 

[ccheese]

Not jealous.... I note that Monday is Labour Day is Australia. Enjoy your
day off/long week-end.

TPBM is going to have to work Monday, anyway...

Charles

 

[Gnomey]

Well not paid work, got some study I'll be doing for my dissertation though.

TPBM doesn't want to have a dissertation to write...

 

[Bucksnort101]

Nope, too old for that kind of thing.

TPBM has already put away a few too many today.

 

[Lucky13]

Nope, not today.....

TPBM has had too many coffee today, and is now suffering for it.....

 

[Bucksnort101]

Nope, not today. I have drank a bit of diet soda this afternoon and it has yet to catch up on me.

TPBM once invented something only to have someone else pattent the same idea before they could!!!

 

[Wayne Little]

Nah, can't say that has happened to me....

TPBM doe's have some patented inventions and will tell us about them!