Comments on: The train to Chicago https://www.vianegativa.us/2012/03/the-train-to-pittsburgh/ Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003. Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:55:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave Bonta https://www.vianegativa.us/2012/03/the-train-to-pittsburgh/#comment-23792 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:55:15 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=15716#comment-23792 In reply to James.

Great story! I love trains. It’s a shame Amtrak is so expensive.

]]> By: James https://www.vianegativa.us/2012/03/the-train-to-pittsburgh/#comment-23747 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:27:40 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=15716#comment-23747 I love this. Especially those scenes of the industrial wasteland, the abandoned factories. The only time I’ve seen that part of the country was when I took the train from Austin to Boston and back while I was in college in the early ’90s. Before the return trip I’d never seriously tried to write anything except for school. On the way back somewhere between Pennsylvania and Chicago, I felt this overwhelming need to write what I was seeing. I borrowed some paper from the woman sitting next to me and started writing. Haven’t stopped since…

]]> By: Dave Bonta https://www.vianegativa.us/2012/03/the-train-to-pittsburgh/#comment-23617 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:51:10 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=15716#comment-23617 In reply to Beth.

Glad that phrase resonated with you. Rachel Shaw, whom I met for coffee on Sunday, had the perfect phrase that I should’ve used here in reference to railroad rights-of-way: feral space.

]]> By: Beth https://www.vianegativa.us/2012/03/the-train-to-pittsburgh/#comment-23608 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:44:23 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=15716#comment-23608 Nice, Dave. I feel that same way when on a train as an adult – it’s just weird to “be”the train instead of the one seen from beside the tracks. And now, with our studio near the Canadian Pacific tracks with lots of traffic all day, that feeling of being the watcher is simply reinforced.

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