I wasn't stuck in the middle seat. The legroom on this train could accommodate a seven-footer. I don't know about you, but every plane I've been on has a whistling noise right by the window and a low frequency roar. Not so on the train. Its horn was barely discernible in the dining car.
Trains are part of our past and our future.
There was a time when trains connected the state's rural and urban communities. When rail died, many of the rural communities died with it. If rural Georgia is to survive and if metro Atlanta and other cities like it, choked by traffic and air pollution, are to continue to grow, rail will have to play a larger part of the transportation scheme. We have a long way to go. I can see it.