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A Texas upbringing - and living now in Brooklyn, too - have surely helped my appreciation for open spaces and skies, but beyond that, it's not easy to find words for what it feels like to be up in the Rockies or out on the Great Basin - such silences and spaces! - or to be heading up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

~Brian Floca

Topics: Appreciation Beyond Brooklyn Easy Feels Find Great Heading Helped Like Living Mountains Nevada Now Open Out Sierra Silences Skies Spaces Surely Texas Too Up Upbringing Words

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I think what initially attracts many kids to trains are the 'cool' things: strength, size, agency, speed. But trains also operate within a world of systems, schedules, codes, and fine distinctions. Enter the geeks. What I personally love most about trains is that they are transporting, that they take us places - literally and otherwise.

~Brian Floca

Topics: About Agency Also Attracts Codes Cool Distinctions Enter Fine Geeks Initially Kids Literally Love Many Most Operate Otherwise Personally Places Schedules Size Speed Strength Systems Take Things Think Trains Us Within World I Think

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Write about what you want to know.

~Brian Floca

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I should say that I usually have a good experience on Amtrak. Still, if Amtrak could replace electric horns with steam whistles, they could make big strides. A horn is a horn is a horn, but a steam whistle is a voice and a song. People used to know which engineer was running which engine based on the call of the whistle.

~Brian Floca

Topics: Based Big Call Could Electric Engine Engineer Experience Good Horn Horns Know Make People Replace Running Say Should Song Steam Still Strides Used Voice Which Whistle

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The railroads once were a dominant power in American life, for good and for ill. There's something inevitably nostalgic about a train book today. Trains attract us, but part of that attraction is cultural memory.

~Brian Floca

Topics: About American American Life Attract Attraction Book Cultural Dominant Good Ill Inevitably Life Memory Nostalgic Once Part Power Railroads Something Today Train Trains Us Were

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Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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