people movers in many places

Image: 1  Hank (on the right) on the Amtrak back to NY from DC

Image: 2  Hank (extreme right) as a school-boy at the RMC (Royal Military College)
on a train from K.Lumpur to Ipoh on the way for the Perak River Expedition

Note: Was late in posting at d'Verse (the reason for inclusion of the link, apologies!)

Had been on people movers

The Underground Tubes in London
Been on trains out of London
South to Bournemouth and north to Luton
When bound for Cranfield made the mistake
by taking the All Stations instead of the Express
It took close to 5 hours for mandatory stops
at all the small stations for the journey
whereas the Express did only 3 stops
along the same direction

The trams of Delft-Amsterdam
The Metro in Paris after arriving from Amsterdam
It was fast and furious transcending through Belgium
and into France as the Immigration people went
about their formalities on the trains themselves

From New Delhi through Nagpur to Calcutta and
back to Bombay (Mumbai now) across the sub-continent
both ways which took a few days for visits to many factories

The trains from Zurich to Milan through Lugano
The funicular train up Mount Pilatus in Switzerland
The clock-work Swiss lines were just a wonder

The cable cars of ‘Frisco, heave and ho!
One could just imagine pulling at the levers
the old fashioned way over undulating terrain
That was a long time ago!
Are they still in service?

The Amrak to DC and back to N York
The NY subway network to Times Square
Present day LRT in Kuala Lumpur
MRT in Singapore and the likes

Nothing like the thrill though
of childhood travel with your peers
With unity of purpose
On a train through moments
of memories during school days at the RMC
where we were transported by train for our Annual Camps
and for expeditions around the country

Those were the days
Those were the good old days!

For Susan's hosting at PU's Midweek Motif - unity
and billgncs' at d'Verse's Poetics -  All Aboard