US may add airports to electronics ban

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20. I hope the trains aren't hurt too bad - I don't want to go to Canada or Europe just to ride one!

I grew up with stories about traveling on the train. My great great grandfather was a station agent in Escanaba, Michigan. Before their house was built the family lived in an apartment above the railroad station. Even after my great grandfather married he lived with his parents there and my grandmother was born in railroad station.

Much later her husband worked for Swift & Company in Central Florida. Once a year he had to report back to headquarters in Chicago. The family would take the train up, then my grandmother and her two sons would travel on to Escanaba to spend the summers with her family.

Dad talked about watching his father shave with a straigth razor on the train. It impressed him when he was a child and still astounds me today!