GRAND Magazine - January 2009 - (Page 34) reunions Happy rails to you… The California Zephyr passes high above donner Lake, crossing into california through the sierra nevada mountains. during the Empire Builder’s 30-minute stop in montana, the gang piled out to pose. carol mcmanus’s g’kids lo across montana in a rollin 34 GRAND JANUARY 2009 PhoTo crediT on Train: Bruce c. cooPer, ©2003, digiTaLimageservices.com M Train travel—just enough private time, just enough adventure—is a grand old idea whose time has come ’round again. By Jim Loomis Bautista, also 13. All three are from Calhoun, Georgia, and they boarded the train last night in Atlanta. By the time the Crescent has us somewhere between Charlottesville and Culpepper, Virginia, they’re sharing their enthusiasm about this adventure—an overnight ride to Washington to visit relatives. The trip was the idea of their grandmother, Sheila Powell, who, I discover, is seated at the table directly behind us. “I want my grandkids to see our Capitol,” she says, “and the Black History Museum.” The children, fascinated by their first experience in a rolling restaurant, are sawing away at slabs of French toast. Two hours later, the Crescent glides to a stop prise. With family-style seating, you never know who’ll be sharing your table; and in the course of many long-distance train trips I’ve drawn everything from a Japanese doctor specializing in organ transplants to a 300-pound biker in a tank top. Today, I’m about to have breakfast in the dining car of the Crescent, en route to Washington, D.C., from New Orleans. Moments after I order orange juice, coffee and an omelet—hold the grits, please—the steward appears and seats three youngsters at my table. Little by little conversation builds. I’m breakfasting with Jazzy Mears, 9, and her brother, Rico, 13. Their cousin-companion is Alexis eaLTime in an amTrak dining car is always a sur-
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