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Traveling is such an inspiring meansTo invigorate one with lands apart
From home with great cultural scenes
By a way of travel I take to heart
It is the Railway, as you may have known
Why do I take the train others might ask?
It is comfortable, as it has shown
A Railway Journey is a pleasant task
Waiting upon the platform I wonder
With a ticket held tightly in my hand
Just how I might of the world grow fonder
The train comes to whisk me to a new land
The comforts and scenery content me
As I steam towards foreign lands fit to boast
Of national treasures where I spent tea
Befriending strangers from the coast to coast
Our railway engine traveled The Long Strait
Across the deserts from Sydney to Perth
Of Australia during our joyful gait
Down the Line upon a journey of worth
The next destination was hot Bombay
Where we arrived with a lively feeling
Of mystery and dreams whilst on the way
Scents of tea filled the air in Darjeeling
In Scotland we had settled in Glasgow
Were Scotsmen had turned out many a ton
Of iron ships and railways then and now
To traverse from there afar to London
In Africa our express knew not stalls
To hinder the great progress to Cape Town
And from there to grand Victoria Falls
Where my breath was harmoniously sown
The steam engine pulling the train climbed high
Nearly three miles in the hills towards Peru
To Bolivia where nature shall sigh
For the dense forests bespeak beauty true
We had not yet nearly finished the quest
By the Railway when we stopped in Paris
A city of love and to Budapest
In Hungary on our journey as this
To Tokyo in the Land of the Sun
Where we spotted the sacred Mount Fuji
The train went onward on the final run
To Timbuktu and finished its duty
The railway allows life to be simple
Many a fantastic thing we just saw
By a train hissing steam like a wimple
With only tickets and an old Bradshaw
So that is just what I have to explain
Why I love railways and travel them so
The next time you travel do catch a train
There is no more wonderful way to go
Mason Allen Buskirk
22 December 2013
Photograph property of O. S. Nock.
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Now this is why I don't like planes. They are all about "get there faster" unlike the train. Most people I have talked to say a train takes too long. As the old saying goes, It's not the destination, it's the journey. Another thing is how trains stop all along the routes. So do ships, which allows you a moment to buy something from the stations or a vendor to remember the place. That is the beauty of railway travel.
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Thank you for your comment. 
I was inspired by this great television program to write this poem. Here is an episode that has some fine steam traction in it as well. This program shows how railway travel immerses one with destinations so much. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_PzUz…
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flying=meh flying=Y U NO 1/2 Whistle?
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