Pecos River High Bridge

[elnalgon4u]

131 dollars from San Antonio to Los Angeles! it took 29 hours but it was a nice trip!

[marquisdejolie]

You must've gotten an express!

[elnalgon4u]

that is a nice train trip from San Antonio to Los Angeles and cheap[ too!

[usaamerica1]

hey how much did u pay? and how long did it take. thanks for the video.

[marquisdejolie]

It took me 52 hours from Marshall, Texas to Los Angeles and cost over $200.

[GreatGig1]

At least every 6 hours or so there is a high light...LOL

[marquisdejolie]

Well....depending on how many times they park out in the desert to let freight trains go by...and for how long.

:)

[marquisdejolie]

Well...depending on how many times they park out in the desert to let freight trains go by...and for how long.

[fehquig]

Dirt!!!

[marquisdejolie]

Plenty to go around!

[marquisdejolie]

I'll throw dream sequences over the dirt.

[twister7boy]

ya i know what you mean. but this kid makes fun of everybody everynight when he goes there. when i was younger that was the place to hangout in fredericksburg. so i was just showing him what he does to everybody else everynight. thats all. rumors suck so bad too. if you wont ask the person yourself or get to know to know them you will never really know what happend or is happoning. so he got a taste of his own medicen. he didnt bother anyone anymore after that.

[marquisdejolie]

:)!

[twister7boy]

oh what a hell of a ride the limo driver will have hay. make sure to bug the hell out of them. and say hay you work for me now buddy. i rented a limo with a friend of mine just to go to the strip bar one night when i made good money. pointless 2 hour drive. but heads turned. and we had to stop by toco bell at home to make fun of the rich kid that goes there everynight. haha.

[marquisdejolie]

I eat rich kids for breakfast.

[marquisdejolie]

Rich kids over 18, that is. I don't want no f*ckwads startin' rumors.

[twister7boy]

atleast one amtrak emplyee had a sence of humor. no oh wait isnt dirt that purple stuff thats so magical. big citys no dirt ha. remember. cant wait to see more of that magical stuff. ya they should have went all out and sent you a limo. class you say whats that. a cab would be fine too. bus oh no. next time ask for a limo. and give a tour of your kind. i bet youl scar the hell out of em a. collect some dirt every time you stop and give it to them when you get there. that would be cool.

[marquisdejolie]

Yeah, I want a limo next time...fully stocked...booze and women.

[coloursepia]

are we there yet?

[marquisdejolie]

Still not out of Texas.

:(

[marquisdejolie]

C'mon, colour....ya got ta get behind the mule in the morning and plow (translation: can't get to L.A. without going through Texas)

[MannyBei]

Hey I wouldn't mind taking a long trip with a tour guide included...and C'mon you should keep the Crawford footage-I want to see bushes instead of dirt!

[marquisdejolie]

Okay...but it's boring.

[MannyBei]

With a little of your sardonic narrative, creative visual effects and musical score, I don't think it will be boring. How about one of your government inefficiency rants juxtaposed with the train passing the president's hometown...

[marquisdejolie]

Into The Dark Heart of Texas, eh?

[marquisdejolie]

More coming.

[MrRay47]

"Pecos River High Bridge" Probably the only railroad bridge in the US commemorating a high school. Could have been a sneaky way of getting the students at Pecos River High to pick up litter that accumulates on the bridge. aloha :)

[marquisdejolie]

What else is there to do in West Texas?

[citizenstand]

lovely dirt! it's like waiting in line for star wars.

[marquisdejolie]

Hahaha. I've seen those lines...shouted at the tent people.

[randalldowney11]

no base jumpers that day?

[marquisdejolie]

Didn't see anybody tied to the trestle.

[marquisdejolie]

that is to say...

[marquisdejolie]

Er....

[marquisdejolie]

Oops.

[chevkoch]

DIRT! The movie. It's gonna leave you soiled.

DIRT! - Another six hours that will never wash off.

DIRT! - Giant roasts, truckbed catfish and barely finite train stops.

[marquisdejolie]

Hahaha!

[chevkoch]

Make me your marketing manager and you'll never go hungry again :)

[marquisdejolie]

POOF! Your my marketing manager. Now get me a gig in Europe, please, preferably France or Italy.

[chevkoch]

Still waiting for a knee-jerk from the YT editors to my written nag getting you featured/partnered. If there's a FrenchTube, that's next.

[marquisdejolie]

:) I'm SO ready for another road trip!

[chevkoch]

In an alternative dimension, Amtrak probably does operate a train from Texas to that other continent.

[marquisdejolie]

Bizzaro World?

[chevkoch]

Haha, yeah, the train would sport gills and fins to dive through a cubic sea towards France and Italy, both intertwinedly located on a Bavarian-Pretzel-shaped island!

[marquisdejolie]

Sounds like a dream I recently had.

[marquisdejolie]

It looks like a bunch of my subscribers got off at the reservoir.

[MadBadVoodo]

LOL I think they did...

[rextangle]

Hey, I'm still onboard! Mix that dirt with the water... you get MUD! Yeah, it's true! It's true! Mwahahahahaha!!! I'm going crazy! Are we there yet?

[marquisdejolie]

We're STILL in Texas. Two or three more videos to go til New Mexico. I even cut out the video of Crawford, Texas (where President Bush ranches).

[marquisdejolie]

C'mon folks! It's only been 20 videos since we started this trip. Don't get off the train way out here in the desert!

[chevkoch]

I'd rather throw Momma from the train before getting off myself.

[marquisdejolie]

Hahaha! Thanks. I was beginning to think I'd be the only one on the train when we pulled in to Union Station in L.A.

[chevkoch]

Me, I've adjusted to the sleep deprivation and let go of wanting to be there already. More and more, the beauty of the Choo Choo moment unfolds. New Mexico, looking forward. Santa Fe?

[marquisdejolie]

Santa Fe is the northern route of something else. The Texas Eagle takes the southern route. No Santa Fe on this train. I've been there by car, truck and misadventure, though. Nice town.

[chevkoch]

I was living in Santa Fe for seven months a longer while back and loved it. Was hoping to get a glimpse of it through your from-the-coach-window footage. That would have kicked nostalgia into gear good. Too bad.

[marquisdejolie]

What were you doing in Santa Fe? Art or government work?

[chevkoch]

My girlfriend was painting, I was doing carvings (I remember buffalo ribs I put some cosmic, far-out scenes on with acrylic), we tried ourselves at the flea market scene there. Having saved up some money beforehand, we were able to take it easy and just enjoy our time there without the need to work. We got a decently priced place to stay, rented bikes to get around, hitchhiked to Pow Wows, hit clubs in Albuquerque and sat drumming in the desert, spiritual stuff, this and that.

[marquisdejolie]

Coolness! I go to Albuquerque occasionally and the elevation is so high I get oxygen-starvation sleeping sickness there the first few days....every time. Do you still do carvings?

[chevkoch]

Very rarely, last thing I did was a Zuni-style fetish (amber, shell, flint) to balance some work done for me. I had learned beading from a lady living on the beach (no electricity, just a well, two dogs, cat, iguanas, scorpions) in a place called Novillero (west coast Mexico, down from Mazatlan). I should do more manual crafts/art again, I could use the centering effect; ah, the temptings/addiction of the virtual...

[marquisdejolie]

I hear it's VERY centering. Why did you stop doing it?

[chevkoch]

Santa Fe seemed a place supporting stuff like that, you know, the right energy lingering. Being back in Europe, culture shock always made it hard to pick it up again I guess. I dream of a life near the ocean though, and talking about it, well, lots of driftwood to work on in that dream.

[MadBadVoodo]

The one thing that always terrified the shit out of me when I worked the trains was bridges!

Five Stars Man!

[marquisdejolie]

Thanks. Didn't trust the bridges, eh? Something we should know?

[MadBadVoodo]

Yes...But I'm not telling! LOL Just joking! Actually when I was in training we had 2 watch videos on train wrecks and the ones with the most death were the ones involving bridges...If you go off a bridge and your in the head end of the train you are so fucked...The thing 2 remember is that if your going on a trip that will take you over a ton of bridges try to sit in one of the last cars....Just some advice...

[marquisdejolie]

Ah. Good. My coach car stays at the back of the train, followed only by the sleeper car. Why do they put the sleeper at the back of the train? Oh wait, that damned engine horn....

[katalina2007]

I guess the comedian and the River Bridge was the HIGH Point of that part of the journey?.

[marquisdejolie]

It was.

:)

[AerocK]

can't catch bass in the dirt...

[marquisdejolie]

:)

Prairie fishing is a lost art.