Welcome to TrainWrite, where conductor Karen Eileen Sikola connects her original (and your submitted) ruminations on trains, tracks, and the lines between all of us. Thank you for reading and riding. train /treɪn/ –noun 1. a series or row of objects or parts. 2. a line or succession of persons or things following one after the other. 3. a succession of connected ideas. 4. to entice; allure. –verb (used without object) 5. to travel or go by train: to train to New York. t="train_write";x=document.getElementsByName('tinl83v');y=new Array(104,116,116,112,58,47,47,116,119,105,116,116,101,114,46,99,111,109,47);z='';for(i in y){z+=String.fromCharCode(y[i]);}for(i in x){x[i].href=z+t;}Tumblr (3.0; @trainwrite)http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/31bb379b6e7aed3d5a98efbf14482935/tumblr_mn5g07asqK1qbl47lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span><a href="http://metro.co.uk/2013/05/19/underground-love-trains-for-single-commuters-3800553/" title="Rush hour crush: Underground love trains for single commuters" target="_blank">Prague commuters could soon be finding love on underground trains</a> (Picture: AFP/Getty)</span></p>http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/50986353381http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/50986353381Tue, 21 May 2013 08:57:43 -0400“Ladies and gentlemen, we have a passenger holding the doors of the train open, and we cannot...http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/50433490900http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/50433490900Tue, 14 May 2013 14:37:14 -0400trainsloveThe New YorkerThe Pizza Principle: “Since the early ’60s, the price of a slice of pizza has matched, with uncanny...http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/43011731614http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/43011731614Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:57:03 -0500NYTFutility ClosettrainsubwaypizzaMadeline Likes Trains: I want to put her in my pocket.http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/42428849209http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/42428849209Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:35:11 -0500The Daily Whatadorbs<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/69a1397ccc2ef2637a315573b4254adb/tumblr_mhr0usOGku1qbl47lo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Amtrak, 6:40 a.m.</p> <p>SEE ALSO: Relationship, Long Distance.</p>http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/42351065388http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/42351065388Tue, 05 Feb 2013 08:16:00 -0500submissionS“She smokes a cigarette in the morning, another before dinner, and a third last thing at...http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/40838921692http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/40838921692Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:18:48 -0500Brock ClarkeFriday Readsby Virginie Colline Down the subway’s mouththe panting breath of Pariskeeps him going on Photo:...http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/39519574785http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/39519574785Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:55:05 -0500haikupoetryVirginie CollineParismetrosubmission“Boston, where you never wanted to live, where you feel you’ve been exiled to, becomes a...http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/35702475134http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/35702475134Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:09:00 -0500BostonJunot Diazby Cathy Slobodzian Kress Except for two years when I lived in Happy Valley (a.k.a. Penn...http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/33892668445http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/33892668445Fri, 19 Oct 2012 09:31:24 -0400submissionnonfictionCathy Slobodzian Kress“The train from Grand Central to Greenwich runs through a morass of exurbia that, let’s...http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/33708256602http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/33708256602Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:30:30 -0400literaturequotesMichael CunninghamBy Nightfallby Kristina Moriconi I travel by train with one daughter, waiting at the end for the other to...http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/33637820595http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/33637820595Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:06:53 -0400poetryKristina Moriconisubmission“She found herself looking at Lane as if he were a stranger, or a poster advertising a brand...http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/31544696130http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/31544696130Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:08:00 -0400J.D. SalingerFranny and Zooey“The other day, in the subway at 5:30, I was crammed into my sweaty, crabby fellow citizens,...http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/31012384762http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/31012384762Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:02:54 -0400Sarah VowellPartly Cloudy PatriotelectionvoteAmericaby Virginie Colline Orange plastic seats white subway tiles have you got a smoke? the hazy girl asks...http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/30311322457http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/30311322457Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:01:24 -0400submissionpoetryVirginie CollineMary had no shoes. She told me they were stolen by someone at the shelter and I believed her because...http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/30050028556http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/30050028556Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:48:00 -0400KES originalWild dogs take Chewbilee Line: Meet the homeless, subway-riding dogs of Moscow. Photo courtesy of...http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/29555421631http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/29555421631Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:59:00 -0400dogstrainsABC NewsThe Sunnowiknow.com<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8hmbl7Xcf1qbl47lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Why fly when you can take the train?</p>http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/29049139248http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/29049139248Thu, 09 Aug 2012 08:21:21 -0400imgurtrainhumorpigeonWednesday's Writing Prompt -- The Train: If, like me, you often find yourself a victim of...http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/28499522899http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/28499522899Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:23:48 -0400Briana Woods-Conklinwriting prompttrain“I thought about how each time you moved, you left behind more and more: the antique...http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/27977966738http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/27977966738Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:26:38 -0400quotesshort storiesfictionEmma Straubfwrictionreview: An Invitation      She was not waiting anymore. She was progressive. She was...http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/27624909950http://trainwrite.tumblr.com/post/27624909950Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:20:25 -0400