2023-08-02 17:47:45
Simon Petite San Francisco-Chicago Posted on August 02, 2023 at 7:47 PM. Modified on August 03, 2023 at 06:10.
The cap covered with pins, the controller looks at his watch. Two horns sound. The metallic gray train pulls away right on time, leaving behind the modest station of Emeryville, in the suburbs of San Francisco. The California Zephyr begins a two and a half day journey to Chicago. That is 3924 kilometers across seven states. A mythical route, the closest to the first intercontinental rail crossing completed in 1869.
The train runs along the bay of San Francisco then the delta. At the edge of the tracks under the bridges, homeless tents, sleeping bags, America’s invisible margins of the highways. Sacramento, the capital of California, is in sight. The controller announces a slightly longer stop than usual, the time to “stretch your legs and have a cigarette”.
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