It's been quite a few years  since I've been on a train. And
in the US,  I've not used a  train that I can  recall. I was
once  almost  hit  by  an  Amtrak  train  in  the  woods  of
Washington State, but that is another story.

Monday  I'll  take  a  train from  Jefferson  City,  MO,  to
Winslow, AZ  (the "standin'  on the  corner" city  of Eagles
fame.)  It will  be about  a 27hr  train ride  (counting one
connection.) That is much longer than any European line that
I've been on.

This  is my  phlog  about beauty,  among  other things.  I'm
hopefully  that the  train  ride will  include some  beauty,
during the daytime  portions of the trip. I'm  pleased to be
visiting Arizona  again, which I already  unexpectedly miss.
It'll be  the dry part  of AZ, as  I won't be  following the
line through to Flagstaff, but it's beautiful anyway.

I'm  hopeful  that the  train  experience  itself will  have
beauty. I'll  have time, so I'll  write a phlog post  or two
about it. If  they have wifi, I'll upload the  post from the
train.

This  also reminds  me,  user jirka  wrote  about trains  in
Central Europe  recently[1]. He  wrote about  his experience
with his Pocket  GPD on the trains. I still  want to get one
of those  at some point,  if I  can justify the  expense. It
sounded like the longest line he  was on was a 6hr trip. I'm
positive that it was quite scenic and beautiful.

[1] gopher://sdf.org/1/users/jirka/Phlog/2018_05_04.txt