Enjoyed the item on the Nfld Railway. In June 1947 my Mother and I traveled from St. Johns to Champneys, Trinity Bay. We left St. Johns at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and arrived in Clarenville to change trains. We ate supper there. The train to Champneys arrived and we proceeded. We were on a sleeper and I slept in the upper bunk. It being dark I never saw the Trinity Loop. We arrived in Champneys at 6 AM. Our return trip was much the same only after arriving in Clarenville we had to change for Gander where we were to take a plane to LaGuardia airport in New York City (there was no Kennedy then). The plane came from Dublin, Ireland. At that time planes couldn't make it all the way without refueling at Gander. My father had made the same trip when he emigrated from Nfld to New York in 1924. The trip from Champneys to New York by train took him five days. Today you leave New York and arrive in St Johns in less than 12 hours. That's progress. I have really enjoyed the Newfoundland Tidbits. Merry Christmas to all. Lydia Batson Woodcheke, in sunny Florida