Amherst's Railroad Station

At our photo club dinner last night I went home with another member's coat. I woke up to that with an email notification. So I returned it this morning (and picked up mine at the hotel where the dinner took place). Fortunately this took me only a short way into nearby Amherst, and coming back I stopped to take the town's small railroad station.

Edit: A friend emailed: "You might have noticed that the Amherst railroad station is about a block from Emily Dickinson's home; that's no accident. Her father used his political clout (he was a congressman, etc.) to bring the rail line to where it would increase his property value."

Only one train stops there: Amtrak's "Vermonter", which runs from Washington DC to St. Albans in northern Vermont state, and back--once a day in each direction. It not speedy--the trip to New York, for example, takes about five hours--we usually do it in under three hours with our car. But tourists may enjoy it, and we might even take it northwards.

In fact, I remember when it was the "Montrealer" and went all the way to Montreal--that ended in 1995. Maybe in 2030 or so we'll have a high-speed train that goes all the way to Montreal again (after most members of the Tea Party have been thrown into the Pacific Ocean :)