exactly !! I even love watching the world move by taking a short commuter train into Chicago and would love to have the time to put more train travel into our trips.

I do recall my buddies & I hopping into an open freight railcar of a train that was stopped near our regular crossing. We thought we'd ride it for a bit when the train started up, then hop off before it got going too fast. Too bad for us that this was a short train and got up to speed very quickly. Thankfully it had to stop for something else about 20 miles away and VERY thankfully there was a parent willing to come pick us up. WHEW