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Metra Big Timber Train Station.
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Showing posts with label
Metra Big Timber Train Station.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
~ H.G. Wells
TIME: 10:00 AM
PLACE: Metra Big Timber Train Station
SUBJECT: Bicycle
Don't want to take your bicycle on the train? They've got a solution for that!
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The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.
~ John Moody
TIME: 10:00 AM
PLACE: Metra Big Timber Train Station
SUBJECT: Railroad
I'm wondering if I made the train engineer nervous when I got this close to the train. I couldn't help it. I was like a moth driven by the flame.
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“Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
TIME: 10:00 AM
PLACE: Metra Big Timber Train Station
SUBJECT: Train
Oh how I love the power of a train ...
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“I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.”
~ Yogi Berra
TIME: 10:00 AM
PLACE: Metra Big Timber Train Station
SUBJECT: Depot
Podunk is about 20 minutes west from the end of the Chicago Metra line that travels into the city. I happened to be running some errands this weekend that took me right by the Big Timber depot. It looks much different on a slow weekend than it does during a Monday morning rush hour.
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