{"id":34573,"date":"2025-11-21T14:38:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34573"},"modified":"2025-11-21T14:38:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:38:45","slug":"the-things-i-remember-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/21\/the-things-i-remember-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Things I Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, gentle reader. My beautiful wife were for some reason talking about trains the other day–taking them to California or something–and I started running down a list of trains whose names I remembered.<\/p>\n

When I was in college, lo, those many decades ago, I used to take the train from Milwaukee to St. Louis on holidays. The Hiawatha Service<\/em> would take me from Milwaukee to Chicago, and I would take the Ann Rutledge<\/em> from Chicago to Kirkwood (since renamed the Missouri Ridge Runner<\/em>. It continued to Kansas City, and stopping in Kirkwood was more convenient for pickup in the afternoon going downtown. On Sunday mornings when I was returning north, I would catch the Texas Eagle<\/em> coming out of Texas since it would get me to Chicago earlier.<\/p>\n

And I remember the name of a couple of the other trains leaving Chicago: The Empire Builder<\/em> heading to Seattle, the Empire<\/em> service heading to New York, and the Sunset Limited<\/em> heading to Los Angeles. If you believe the review of The Christmas Train<\/em><\/a> last year, I apparently also remembered (then) the Capitol Limited<\/em> and Southwest Chief<\/em>.<\/p>\n

You know, every once and again, after watching an old movie or reading a book like The Christmas Train<\/em>, I think how neat it would be to take a train excursion, say from St. Louis to Chicago to Seattle to San Francisco and back. But, holy cats, a small compartment on the Empire Builder alone would be somewhere in the excess of $1000 or even $2000–and the other segments probably as much.<\/p>\n

It’s a picturesque thought, but dayum, I’ll drive that first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah, gentle reader. My beautiful wife were for some reason talking about trains the other day–taking them to California or something–and I started running down a list of trains whose names I remembered. When I was in college, lo, those many decades ago, I used to take the train from Milwaukee to St. Louis on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34575,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34573\/revisions\/34575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}