Tooot Tooot II

Now, I know that the last train post was pretty exciting, but hold on to your hats because there's more. Remember when we left, the hobo saw us and didn't like us. So what happened?

The hobo boarded the train! Lucky for us, he decided to mosey on back to the staff car, leaving one with the crazy idea that he worked for these people or something. Wild.






Here's a view from between the train cars which I was only able to get because we were stopped at Pleasant Gap. I would have tried to get a moving shot but as the Announcement Voice told us several times, their insurance doesn't cover passengers going from car to car.

Speaking of the Announcement Voice, the fact that he kept bringing up tragic tales did not make me feel safer on the train. The first story was about some guy that murdered Voice's great-great grandfather's family or something, and then later as we were rounding a bend the Voice cheerfully added that a train derailed there once and killed a bunch of people.



I want to go to the Swank Cafe.











This sign made me laugh not just because it says "No, No Kitty!" but because of how pitiful the cat looks. PS: the rest of the sign was an ad for some cat food.




In keeping with signage, I noticed a ton of quotation marks that seemed a bit superfluous. This both irritates and amuses me. "Susquehanna" - just kidding!




"Pepsi and Pete" - fooled you! That's not their real name!







"Signed by the author" - punked!








Hah, this kid wasn't the only one lulled by the gentle rocking of the Bellefonte train. Travis was asleep for the last fifteen minutes of the ride.




I asked one of the staff to take this picture of us just to get him to stop talking about his daughter and how she went to college for nine years and had a 3.9 GPA. Good lord, he was chatty.




And here's Travis and me in ten years. I will have aged horribly.