Trains News Wire offers the latest in an occasional series of links to articles elsewhere on the internet that you might find worthwhile (or amusing):
— The BBC Music Magazine offers a different look at the impact of the Transcontinental Railroad: how it triggered an era that transformed classical music in the U.S.
— It’s now more about three weeks weeks old, but still worthwhile is a Los Angeles Times look at Mexico’s Maya Train project, its ongoing issues, and how opinions of the railroad often parallel how those offering the opinion feel about Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the now-departed Mexican president who pushed the project throughout his six years in office.
— And a quick read: Syndicated columnist Miss Manners — after years of dealing with issues regarding unwanted guests, wedding faux pas, and the like — finally gets around to a really crucial matter: behavior of those with video cameras on a heritage rail excursion.
Good for Miss Manners !!!!! I’d even go beyond what she said. Miss Manners mentioned that people who pay for a train excursion have the right to stand wherever they want and say whatever they want. I expand that to watching trains I HAVE NOT paid to watch. I simply don’t understand why someone with a video camera or a still camera has more rights than I do when I’m experiencing a train with my own two eyes and my own two ears.
If someone is carefully setting up for a shot with professional equipment, of course I’ll try to do the right thing and cooperate. But the zillions of people snapping everything and everywhere with their d….ed cell phones, too bad, so sad. Come back another day when I’m not there.