The Train I Remember by https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv Made with fortitude en-us 2016-12-14 14:57:59 UTC 2025-11-01 23:54:55 UTC hello@padlet.com I remember this. 176680 https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/143615728 2016-12-14 15:05:23 UTC https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/143615728 Cubbie Blue. 176680 https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/143616549 2016-12-14 15:07:37 UTC https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/143616549 Lots of it. 176680 https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/143616823 2016-12-14 15:08:22 UTC https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/143616823 Familiar Faces with an aim to share a monumental experience that nobody has known since 1908. 176680 https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/143617063 2016-12-14 15:08:59 UTC https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/143617063 On the packed train platform in downtown Glenview, everybody saw the three distinct lights of the inbound train that should be taking most of us to Union Station. 176680 https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/143617537 2016-12-14 15:10:28 UTC https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/143617537 Everyone, including me, was furiously getting into position to shove their way onto the densely packed Metra train that only offered limited space per car. 176680 https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144057314 2016-12-16 14:38:07 UTC https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144057314 The train was coming in hot. Real hot. Instead of screeching to a halt at the platform, the express train thundered past us, in its wake leaving Cubs hats flying down the tracks like tumbleweed, along with the love-hate scent of train fuel. 176680 https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144058025 2016-12-16 14:40:05 UTC https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144058025 At this moment in time, I wasn’t thinking of the millions of people that had lived and died between the 1908 and 2016 Cubs world series that had never had the opportunity to witness what I had. 176680 https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144058356 2016-12-16 14:41:01 UTC https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144058356 Not the people around me, 176680 https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144058777 2016-12-16 14:42:30 UTC https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144058777 and not the place I was going, 176680 https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144058955 2016-12-16 14:43:06 UTC https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144058955 and not how I was getting there. 176680 https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144059142 2016-12-16 14:43:44 UTC https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144059142 I was in fact, thinking of my stomach. 176680 https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144059833 2016-12-16 14:45:58 UTC https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144059833 Was it gnarling hunger, or was it anxiety? 176680 https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144059984 2016-12-16 14:46:26 UTC https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144059984 Was I perhaps nervous to go downtown? 176680 https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144060147 2016-12-16 14:46:57 UTC https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144060147 I didn’t know what was going to happen downtown. Nobody knew what was going to happen downtown. Not even the geezers that have walked God’s green Earth for decades. Nobody at that train station knew what was going to happen downtown. 176680 https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144060501 2016-12-16 14:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144060501 I guess it was that sense of the unknown that peaked my curiousity. I was literally about to be part of a historic event that has never been paralleled in today’s day in age. 176680 https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144060973 2016-12-16 14:49:39 UTC https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144060973 Over the adrenaline rush now, I was past my hesitations. 176680 https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144061205 2016-12-16 14:50:22 UTC https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144061205 The only thing I could think of was, 176680 https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144062242 2016-12-16 14:53:58 UTC https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144062242 “Boys. When’s the next train comin?” 176680 https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144062296 2016-12-16 14:54:09 UTC https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144062296 176680 https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144064465 2016-12-16 15:02:46 UTC https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144064465 176680 https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144068681 2016-12-16 15:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144068681 Attributions 176680 https://padlet.com/176680/h1irtd9w6hvv/wish/144069216 Train picture: Ken Ford
Train Flyby: Gallow Bob from Reddit
Anxious Kid: Karen Sigmund
Last picture: True Detective's opening credits

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