Why Choose Trains: The Advantages of Traveling by Train
by Blog Contributor | November 16, 2023 | Fiction | 4 Comments
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If you’re wondering, “Why choose trains?” there’s a pretty good reason why it popped up in your head: you’re probably sick and tired of our inefficient ways of commuting.
Stephen Lloyd Auslender, author of The Streamlined Locomotive, is well aware of why people would opt for trains. His book focuses on transport-themed storytelling centered around one man’s goal of creating a streamlined steam engine. An engine that will be his ticket to retaining his value, status, and position in the wealthy family he was born in. But can he make such a machine?
Readers will certainly find the gripping tale compelling and fun to read, but today, we’re here to talk about trains. Specifically, the benefits one can get from traveling by train.
Advantage #1: You Can Drop Off in the Heart of Cities, Like in Transportation Themed Storytelling
The majority of city train stations are located in the town center. From airports, which are frequently located far outside of town, no transfers are required. Arrive in style and get off the train at your intended location.
Furthermore, you avoid adding to the main traffic issues in most cities if you don’t own a car. You can avoid worrying about parking or driving in the center of an unknown city by using a tram, Uber, or cab. Observing the driving style in places like Rome and Paris, people wouldn’t even think of driving.
Advantage #2: Sleeper Trains in Transportation Adventure Stories Are Real
There are numerous night trains available in the world. If you can’t sleep on a flight, board the sleeper train and purchase a compartment. Instead of arriving at your destination exhausted and dehydrated from an overnight flight, wake up renewed.
Now, the journey won’t always be smooth. You’ll probably get some bumps here and there. However, it won’t be as scary as having turbulence while you’re flying at 38,000 feet!
Train compartments with double beds, toilets, and, on certain luxurious train journeys, baths, are often more comfortable than those on flights!
Advantage #3: Trains Are Eco-Friendly, Like Those in Transportation Science Fiction Stories
Traveling by rail is often a more environmentally beneficial and sustainable option than driving a car or flying an airline. Compared to vehicles and planes, they consume 30% and 20% less energy per passenger mile, respectively. Train operators worldwide are always looking for methods to make taking a train a very sustainable mode of transportation.
The green choice is always to ride the train since it emits less noise, uses less energy, and is considerably more environmentally friendly regarding CO2 emissions. If you’re looking for a good answer to the question, “Why choose trains?” this is a good one. Transport-themed storytelling should showcase this advantage of train travel more.
Advantage #4: There Are No Limits to the Number of Luggage You Can Bring
Do you find it difficult to pack all you need into a 20 kg suitcase? You can bring any amount of luggage you like when you take the train. However, we suggest that if you have a lot of luggage, carefully consider how you will handle it if you must change trains.
Advantage #5: There’s No Need to Wait for Hours on End
No lingering at the airport for three hours. When you go to the train station, board the train! The check-in process is not as lengthy or uncomfortable as at the airport, even if you use a sleeper service.
And although your vacation officially begins when you get off the airport, the trip on the train is included in the vacation! Recline, unwind, and take in the scenery. As you travel, you may take in the breathtaking vistas and the passing landscape rather than endless empty skies.
You won’t be able to enjoy these kinds of sceneries while flying, which gives trains their unique benefit.
Stop Wondering “Why Choose Trains?” and Board Trains Now
It’s time to stop thinking about why you should select trains and start boarding them today. You’re going to need to take a book with you, and Stephen Lloyd Auslender’s transport-themed storytelling book is perfect.
Purchase The Streamlined Locomotive by visiting Stephen’s website at https://www.slauslenderarts.com/order/. Check out our other blogs, too, and read a book review of The Streamlined Locomotive by Stephen Lloyd Auslender!
4 comments
Cassandra
Trains are, hands down, the most underrated transportation mode in the world. Regardless of where you are, they’re always a sight and an experience to encounter. They’re also one of the safest modes out there.
Alani Jacinthe
I am actually more comfortable riding trains than being on a boat or a plane. It’s fast and doesn’t make me think of dying.
I always travel around on trains as much as possible. Living in San Diego, traveling by train saves me time and money. Well, I drive my own car now, but the train rides did give me experiences and stories to tell.
Stephen Lloyd Auslender
I like trains. I live in Connecticut and enjoyed 40 years teaching at the university level in Brooklyn and New York City. Yes, I was commuter. The daily trip on the railroad was an hour each way. I will not add on the time spent on the subway because that was like being in a circus and I found it amusing.
I could write a book on the shenanigans that happened on the NH Railroad because I started in the late 1960’s and that was the time when the railroads were going bankrupt (Pennsylvania RR, New York Central and the New Haven). I could write a book on all the strange and silly things that happened to the typical commuter during that time. I also found that the hour spent going in to NY was a great time to work on my texts and write exams to give to the students later that day, etc.
My folks were located in Chicago and once every few years I would go visit them. I found that I preferred to make that trip by train. But only when I could occupy a roomette on the train. That way I usually had a small room to myself. That 18 hour trip was put to good use by working on my artwork and again in writing. I was alone in my small refuge and when I felt like it I could look at the scenery from the large window on my small compartment. At night I could observe the lights of small towns as we passed through them while I was lying on my bed. The clickety clack as the train passed over the ends of each rail was a lullaby that put me to sleep. Airliners? Phooey. Crammed into a narrow seat in an airliner for a few hours plus the same time taken to get to and from the airports? Double phooey.
Don’t get me wrong. I Love flying. But in small airplanes. Especially in old, open cockpit biplanes. But not in large airliner sardine cans.
Come to think of it I should write a small book about my years as a commuter.
Bob
I love trains too! I wish every place had trains, but some countries are too caught up with the automobile and fossil fuel industry.
Hopefully in the future, the world will be connected by railways crisscrossing the Earth!