Thursday, August 16, 2018

ARENA #21


Posted by Chic Silber at 8/16/2018 12:09:00 AM

6 comments:

Bob Swaney said...

Dorton Arena in Raleigh on the NC State Fairgrounds. Many memories of the Strates Shows road office compound a stone's throw away.

16 August, 2018 08:45
Chic Silber said...


Between Raleigh & Carey

I'll see it tomorrow morning

on my train ride headed up to

New York on "The Silver Star"

Love these train rides & they

keep my air travel to about

75 percent of the time

16 August, 2018 11:13
Chic Silber said...


Theoreticaly between 8A & 9A

but the schedule is only a

mere suggestion

16 August, 2018 11:15
Bob Swaney said...

You got that right, Chic! Rode Amtrak last week and was 30 minutes late leaving Newport News (origin!) and 90 mins late arriving in DC. Return trip left on time but was an hour late arriving back in Newport News. Although Amtrak is at the mercy of CSX, it's still a pleasurable travel mode if "suggested schedules" are of no hindrance. Train was well maintained, clean and staff friendly. Onboard chow a tad pricey.

16 August, 2018 15:53
Chic Silber said...


I'm on their "Silver Star" right now

Only about 35 minutes late so far

Amtrak only owns the trackage from

DC to Boston so all other travel

is 2nd class rental contracts with

several freight rail lines

DC to Boston is fully electrified

all other is by diesel electric

Here currently in central Florida

we're on REALLY rough track that

I'm sure some of you recall from

the Red & Blue trains

16 August, 2018 18:34
Chic Silber said...


J S Dorton was 1 of those joints

where the matinees always looked

like hell due to all that glass

There were several others

Hard for me to type with all

this jerking & jumping around

We're approaching the location

of the 94 wreck site

16 August, 2018 18:44

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