Trains you can smoke on
One of my favourite books about train travel is Jenny Diski’s Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America.
Smoke on the tracks / Photo by ashley rose
This book charts her journey around most of America’s coast, the many interesting encounters she has with ordinary people and the personal memories some of these trigger in the author. As with much of her travel writing, it’s more about an inner journey and a retraction from the world than a straight travelogue. I’ll be posting more about her in my forthcoming round up great rail reads.
Some trains still allow smoking onboard
Anyway, most of her encounters take place in the smoking car, bar or lounge, where strangers often open up to her with surprising candour. The book was published in 2002 and since then smoking has been banned on board all Amtrak services with the exception of the Auto Train which ferries drivers and their vehicles from outside Washington to near Orlando. (I’ve no idea why this train gets special treatment – anyone across the pond care to enlighten me?)
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Trains you can smoke on
One of my favourite books about train travel is Jenny Diski’s Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America.
Smoke on the tracks / Photo by ashley rose
This book charts her journey around most of America’s coast, the many interesting encounters she has with ordinary people and the personal memories some of these trigger in the author. As with much of her travel writing, it’s more about an inner journey and a retraction from the world than a straight travelogue. I’ll be posting more about her in my forthcoming round up great rail reads.
Some trains still allow smoking onboard
Anyway, most of her encounters take place in the smoking car, bar or lounge, where strangers often open up to her with surprising candour. The book was published in 2002 and since then smoking has been banned on board all Amtrak services with the exception of the Auto Train which ferries drivers and their vehicles from outside Washington to near Orlando. (I’ve no idea why this train gets special treatment – anyone across the pond care to enlighten me?)
Continue reading this article @ He Thought of Trains
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