The sheer mundanity of the train is what makes it so beautiful, the way that you can walk up the stairs or take an elevator up a public transit station on one side of a city and in 30 minutes be on the other side, with an amazing view of the entire city. The way that it is just mundane and a part of life is so beautiful
1. Amtrak really trying to be 'public transit' huh
2. Who even wrote that clearly never rode the trains anywhere I've lived
I’m not trying to be public transit, I am just romanticizing the Chicago L