Discovering the romance of America on an Amtrak train

By Brian Pendreigh, The Herald Scotland; March 10, 2018

IT WAS a little after 8pm and the metallic silver giant that is the Sunset Limited transcontinental train lumbered into the station in the little West Texan town of Alpine. I showed the conductor my ticket and he led me to a window seat, looking out towards the distant mountains, the Mexican border and Chihuaua, except someone had left a couple of books on my seat.

I moved them to the adjoining seat and after a while a tall, rather handsome young African-American appeared, looked down at the books and asked “Did you move my property?”

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