Train wreck

As the subway doors open, I am embraced with the aroma of sweat and grime. I walk out of the train car onto the dirt caked floor of Penn Station. My train whooshes by behind me like a comet. Above me comes a computer-generated voice letting me know where I am. The station is a sea of people. The loud hum of a thousand conversations buzzes in the air. As I walk, I see news stands, fast food places, and small marts. Raggedy homeless people are scattered across the station, while there are also…

Union Station, is considered “the last of the great train stations” (Union Station, Metro). When it first opened its doors in 1939, it was “designed in a unique blend of Spanish Colonial, Mission Revival and Art Deco styles” (Union Station, Metro), and the station’s originality still shines through as they…

lady from America or England. The setting consists of the couple sitting outside a bar in a train station in Spain. What makes this story so enduring is the fact that it is a coming of age tale. During the course of waiting for the train, the young women grows from a naïve girl into a woman, fully in charge of her destiny. The struggle between the couple reaches a climax right before they board the train to Madrid. Although it is uncertain what the topic of their argument is about, I believe…

The Chosen Affinity: Uprising 1 They all said life would be better here. Trapped in a tiny train with about 6 other people. We were around 15 years old, some older, some younger, three guys and three girls. The train took off yesterday with no known location. My twin brother and I had received a letter in the mail a few weeks prior. Mine came with a one way ticket and a letter my parents had quickly snatched from me and would not allow me to read. After they had fallen asleep however, I snuck…

excited to go back home”. Mike replies “ yes I sure am.” Mike thought his conversation with Jason ended but it did not, Jason asked “ So how much did your train ticket cost for the holidays? How far advance did you buy your ticket for? Jason replies “Well …Well I got my ticket a long time ago and it was really cheap but ..but I don’t really have a train ticket at the moment”. Mike then begins to think twice why he said that and feels that Jason might tell the conductor that he does not have a…

plans with my friends outside of my city. A few plans were made, but one particular plan had me excited enough to follow through. My friend, Olivia had introduced the idea of her visiting me. She planned on taking a train to Long Beach, and from there I’d be able to pick her up at the train station. After the plans were made I went to clarify it with my mother. My mother was extremely wary about the idea. The anticipation of a drivers license turns into a terrible trip for a friend. The…

makes many friends and enemies in his new homeland, America. Crispin is a hardworking man and one of the few gentlemen in west. The exposition of The Man from Skibbereen is young man named Crispin coming to America from Ireland. He is going on a train west to help build the railroad. When he gets off at a station to stretch his legs he accidentally gets left behind. He finds…

Book: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon, 226 pages Theme: In order for a person to be successful, they need be surrounded by UNDERSTANDING people. To start with, the main character, Christopher, reflects upon first meeting Siobhan eight years ago, “She showed me this picture and I knew that it meant ‘sad,’ which is what I felt when I found the dead dog” (2). Siobhan knows that Chris has a really hard time trying to converse with people because it is hard for him to…

As I walked in the forest I kept a sharp eye out for the figure who had been following me for the past week. Then I saw him; as usual, he was just a shadowy silhouette against the background. I tensed as I knelt to the ground, supposedly to tie my shoelaces. I heard soft footsteps behind me. I whipped around, ready to finally confront the person who had been following me. "Ginny!" I gasped. "What the heck are you doing here?" I asked, desperately looking for the man. "I saw you in the park, and…

There is nothing as important as the train station, and the places I’ve gone because of it when it comes to overcoming stuttering. I swung my backpack over my left shoulder and went up to the glass window. My voice clenched up, but I approached the counter anyway. “Can I have round trip tickets to ththth...thirtieth street station?” The station clerk nodded before I finished and handed me tickets to center-city Philadelphia. I left the ticket office and motioned to a station clerk. “Which…