I thought he already won it 
Bruce,
Never heard of the guy myself!
The Battle of Britain class of streamlined Pacific type locomotives (Southern Railway of England) were nicknamed “Spam cans” by England’s railfan community. So, I suppose you could do the model up in Amtrak livery and call it “Spamtrak.”
Ducking and weaving, David Meashey
There was also the cat “Peake”, known as Chessie’s Old Man… I have a deck of bridge cards with both of them pictured on them…I bought them on a passage aboard a C&O car ferry across one of the Great Lakes…a few moons ago.
FJPM
Hmmm… John, I think you got me there…
thanks for that pic!
looks like a coach in the old wild west. they too ran best with four draw-horses in front!
Got me planning my next trip on Amtrak, next summer, going to fly to a Portland and ride Amtrak’s Empire Builder to Chicago, might shorten the fly part and fly to LA and then ride Amtrak’s Coast Starlight north to Portland , then go to Chicago
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Pete,
Do you know about this whistle-stop?
When we went, we had to let the conductor know we wanted to get off, and call again to get picked up.
I learnt down hill crossed country skiing is harder than up-hill.
I do, but we will be going without stops. Getting multi stop tickets to be able to get off and on on this route isn’t an easy thing, unless you plan well ahead, you may have to wait a few days to get back on, since it’s a busy route that sells out a lot