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SYRACUSE, NEW YORK
DAY 3 The Lake Shore Limited isn’t wasting any time. We pull into Syracuse 16 minutes early. Maybe it’s because there has been very little freight traffic to hold us up. It could also be because this train goes on to New York City after it drops us off in Albany and can not be delayed. At any rate the train is clipping right along at 80 miles an hour. The old timers used to call it “scorching the ballast.” We are not far from Utica, where as a teen-ager, I used to visit my Great Aunt on occasion. Still, there is nothing I’ve seen so far to jog my memory of those days a half a century ago. Maybe it’s just as well. As of now, it appears we’ll get into Albany about right on time. It is there I will connect the dots between Nevada and New York. My plan is to interview a couple form Carson City who live just north of Albany in a town named Saratoga Springs. This too is historic country. At one time this was the western frontier. Only the most intrepid of pioneers ventured out this far during the colonial era. Indeed, the names reflect historical places like the Mohawk River Valley and the Erie Canal. As I write this, the train races along a steel corridor that once reflected the greatest name trains of the mighty Pennsylvania and New York Central. Today it’s simply Amtrak train number 48, the Lake Shore Limited. We will spend the night in Albany with dinner at “Oyster Jack’s. Tomorrow I’ll shoot the second story for Rail Tales, and after watering and servicing the cars, Amtrak will put us on the train to Montreal. Lunch is on the table, and that’s one thing don’t want to miss. Be seenin’ you |
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