Nat Read, a self-professed train enthusiast, has been traveling by train for decades. Last month, he completed a longtime goal of traveling all 21,400 miles of the Amtrak railroad when he traveled from Boston to Brunswick, Maine.
This last trip was less than a four-hour train ride but was what he described as "the last thread of passenger rail on Amtrak's spiderweb map."
I have a fascination with watching America go by. Sitting up high in a rail car and looking at the desert of the West, the farmlands of the Midwest, the small communities of the Northeast, and being on a magic carpet to watch America unfold. I've never grown tired of that.
If that doesn't make your heart swell with patriotism I don't know what will!
When Read pulled into the station at the final stop of his decades-long journey, the train staff announced his accomplishment over the speaker. Read says this is one trip that he won't forget.
I feel fulfilled, this has been over 80 years it's taken me, and to be in Brunswick after all of this, it's an elated feeling. It was a day I will remember forever.
