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\nSouth Carolina Overnight Train Scene (northbound)<\/p>\n
Editor\u2019s Note: DeMille was relieved this morning. Splash had submitted one of his \u201cWinds of Change\u201d pieces for publication in which he claimed to find a link between the astonishing landscape of today, how it came about, and where the extraordinary transformation of good \u2018ole America is likely to go in the coming new year: 2022. But the Chairman said, \u201cHold that thought. In the meantime, Marlow has a contribution that echoes something fundamental about our past, our people, and how we lived. And above all, Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n
– Vic<\/p>\n
\nSouth Carolina Overnight Train Scene (northbound)<\/p>\n
W and I took an overnight train last week to the Big Apple to attend this year\u2019s Army-Navy football game and hang with several shipmates, an Army pogue, and their spouses who are all like family for a prolonged, analogue Christmas season week under the neon lights on Broadway.<\/p>\n
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\nW awaits the arriving northbound Silver Meteor train 98<\/p>\n
This was the Salts\u2019 31st straight Army-Navy game during the past 32 years. \u201cEh . . .\u201d you say? Well, someone had to carry the one. In any event, 2020\u2019s Zoom\u2019d game attendance worked out well for us.<\/p>\n
After nearly two years of CovidLand quarantining mostly in the friendly confines of the Coastal Empire, the scenes along the Atlantic coast\u2019s train tracks were awesome.<\/p>\n
We wanted to remember what we saw and felt onboard the Silver Meteor.<\/p>\n
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\nPre-Amtrak 1930s Silver Meteor advertisement<\/p>\n
So, we can say without any reservations:<\/p>\n
Take An Amtrak Picture<\/strong><\/p>\n Awake on an Amtrak train (Mr Conductor) We don’t believe in Could you take our picture? Hey kids, what\u2019re you gonna think when you find your folks\u2019 old photos? Could you take and send us your picture? The coastal countryside during these north and south bound journeys we saw unfold in front us was equal parts of New World primeval, if not archaic, before Western man arrived, early agricultural settlements of the pre-Revolutionary through the Civil War eras, the fading remnants of America\u2019s rise during the initial Industrial Revolution, the American industrial juggernaut that won two World Wars and the Cold War. This sundae was topped off with a final capper — in which we now live with its glittering insta-digital, internet-of-things communication and financial wizardry that likely will underpin other new roboticized and highly localized industrial and agricultural revolutions of small-area self-sufficiency from their neighboring areas that will entail the acceptance of the new worlds of CovidLand, post privacy and shared personal data insecurity.<\/p>\n Selected heart-warming scenes of these journeys and NYC are forthcoming as Christmas week treats, but first — a blast from the past we discovered hidden off to the side at the Savannah Amtrak station. No jive — it works.<\/p>\n Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n Copyright 2021 My Aisle Seat Editor\u2019s Note: DeMille was relieved this morning. Splash had submitted one of his \u201cWinds of Change\u201d pieces for publication in which he claimed to find a link between the astonishing landscape of today, how it came about, and where the extraordinary transformation of good \u2018ole America is likely to go in the coming new year: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22774,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22763\/revisions\/22774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWay past midnight on an Amtrak train
\nBack yards are bare
\nWindows glow with Christmas flare
\nAwake on an Amtrak train
\nWay past midnight on an Amtrak train
\nBack yards are bare
\nWindows glow with Christmas flare
\nSeason\u2019s hope feels so newborn
\nAnd we feel like we\u2019re newborns
\nAwake on an Amtrak train
\nAwake on an Amtrak train
\nIt feels so real<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/LIT121921-4.jpg\")
\nChristmas flare window scene & feeling newborn<\/p>\n
\nCould you take our picture?
\n‘Cause we wanna remember
\nCould you take our picture?
\n‘Cause we wanna remember
\nCould you take our picture?
\n‘Cause we fear we won’t remember
\nCould you take our picture?
\n‘Cause we wanna remember, yeah<\/p>\n
\nWe don’t believe in DC\u2019s broadcasted sanctity
\nThey don\u2019t give a damn about our privacy
\nWe don’t believe in
\nWe don’t believe in DC\u2019s sanctity, but in its hypocrisy &
\nIts selfie\u2019d insanity
\nCan\u2019t everyone agree that we all should be left alone?
\nCan\u2019t everyone agree that we all should be left alone?
\nAnd this train ride makes us feel so newborn
\nAnd we feel like we\u2019re newborns
\nKicking and laughing<\/p>\n
\n‘Cause we wanna remember
\nThanks for taking our picture
\nNow we gonna remember
\n\u2018Cause we got your picture<\/p>\n
\nHey kids, what\u2019re you gonna think when you find your folks\u2019 old photos?<\/p>\n
\n‘Cause you won\u2019t remember
\nCould you take and send us your picture?
\n‘Cause you won’t remember
\nCould you take and send us your picture?
\n‘Cause you won’t remember
\nCould you take and send us your picture?
\n‘Cause we wanna see and remember
\nCould you take and send us your picture?
\n‘Cause we wanna see and remember
\nCould you take and send us your picture?
\n‘Cause we wanna see and remember, yeah<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/LIT121921-5.jpg\")
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\nAmtrak Station Way Back Machine (exterior and interior)<\/p>\n
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