squiggle posted:Good morning everyone and a Happy New Year to all. Some blue sky this morning which makes a pleasant change. Why would the journey take so long EL?
Enjoy your day everyone
Squiggle, engineering works with buses replacing the trains for two sections of the route.
At this rate, the journey will in future years take days, Here's a clip from the Buster Keaton film "Our Hospitality". It's part of his journey from New York to the Appalachians. It's set in the 1830s. It's an accurate reconstruction of Stephenson's Rocket and gives a feel for what such a journey would have been like. My favourite Buster Keaton film and an early "dramedy" film rather than a comedy film. To give you an idea as to what a dramedy film is one which you've seen in Breakfast at Tiffany's.