Amtrak comes through town on The Cardinal. Chicago - New York City route that passes through my ol' home town (Lafayette, Indiana) and Washington DC. I've lived near railroad tracks often, and I still take a boy's delight in big machines. While Amtrak has some glam, a tiny little bit, it's the working trains that interest me more. The big GE AC4400, three in the lead and two more in the middle, that interest me most.
Usually the big locos are pulling coal. Sometimes liquid sulfur. If the train comes through on the track nearest the station, and without slowing or stopping, there's a fair chance that the engineer will toot the whistle. An old practice that is no longer required. But it's kinda nice.
Nearby park with ball fields provides a decent enough place to fly "foamies" a little. My current travel airplane has the advantage of being happy going very slowly.
Behind the flag is Ronceverte's old hospital. Nearly any local of a certain age will tell you "I was born there." It's still a viable structure, tho not as a hospital, and there are plans to make it useful again as something else. What else is the big question.
A trip to Alderson because. Because there is a little shop that gives people training in food services that isn't going to be a paper-hat job. Also b/c they have excellent sourdough bread that gives every indication of being hand made on a floured board.
And downtown in The Verte a food truck festival and craft show. Sweet potato hummus.
