My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the station in Jackson, bound for Memphis.

I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

My own experience suggests that where there is tourism, there are tigers. And that's the reality.

The slow pace of trains in the U.S. can be maddening, particularly during delays on rail sidings for an hour or more to enable freight trains - which have the right-of-way - to pass.

I'm starting my own family, and there is no other feeling like it.