By Mike Schneider, The Associated Press, Orlando Sentinel; October 24, 2018
They’re aboard because they love trains: The pilot from New Orleans, the computer consultant from New Jersey, the retired tax lawyer from Florida, the computer accounting consultant from Queens and his mother, the retired corporate executive, the computer scientist from Florida’s Space Coast.
For the past decade, these one-time strangers — all train geeks — have made several cross-country trips together on Amtrak. They talk trains and gossip along the way as an extended, traveling family of sorts. By the end of their most recent trip, they’d lose a member.
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