While we were visiting we went on a couple of adventures. One of the best was the day we took the new train (called the frontrunner) into Salt Lake City. The train starts in Provo, and continues on up to Ogden. It's great for commuters!
The four girls, Jason, Laura and I, caught the frontrunner in Lehi, and headed for Salt Lake City. I caught a picture as it was pulling into the station.
The train gets moving fairly fast, at one point we were following the freeway and we were moving faster than the cars.... and they weren't going slow! I thought we would arrive in SLC quickly, however, we stopped at every little town along the way! We also had to stop for a short time to let the southbound train "connect on the tracks."
It ended up taking us probably 45 minutes to get into SLC, where we then had to connect to a local city train system to take us into the area we wanted to be, downtown SLC. So it was probably at least an hour to get to where we were headed. I admit, it would have been faster in the car, but it wouldn't have been as much fun! And, nobody had to drive and fight the traffic!
There were plenty of people riding on the train and I saw many who were spending their time working on their computers, playing cards, reading, etc. It was a very relaxing ride.
Here are a few pictures that I took while on the train.
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| Katie watching the countryside go by |
Kayla and Tara look like they are in deep contemplation, don't they?
Here is one of Marissa and Tara while we were heading downtown on the city train.
They were enjoying it! But watch out when you get on the city train! They take off really fast and a couple of us didn't sit down in time (they don't give you much time to do that!) and went flying forward! Poor Katie got smashed by her dad as he was trying to sit down across from her!
Well enough for tonight. I have more pictures of our train travels, and I'll get some of them posted next time.
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