Sunset Limited~~Travels by Train

SUNSET LIMITED

Traveling by Train

 

A Photo Essay

 by Cindy Morawski

 

 

Early Departure by Train from San Antonio


 

Paul and I left San Antonio last Sunday at 6:30 a.m. by train.  We were on the Sunset Limited which was heading to New Orleans.  

Amtrak's Sunset Limited

 



On Track  

Los Angeles to New Orleans

On the train they call the City of New Orleans, I'll be gone five-hundred miles when the day is through . . .



All Aboard to the Dining Car

 

 

Lounge Car with a View

 

Water and Sky Landscape

 

 

 

Wheels in Motion

 

 

 

 







Passenger Cars

 

 

Looking for adventure?  I'd recommend hopping a train.  Paul and I left from Sunset Station in downtown San Antonio and saw some beautiful sights along the way as we headed to Louisiana and New Orleans.  One of the highlights included coming into New Orleans on the Huey Long Bridge at night.  It was surreal.  Almost like gliding in by airplane.  The bridge is elevated above the city so with the darkness, the water, and the distant cityscape's lights twinkling, we felt as though we were flying! 

 

 

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Invitation to a Dessert Reception

 

You're invited to the Candlelight Coffeehouse Cafe

 

this Thursday, November 29, 2012

 

from 7 to 9 p.m.

 

Hosted by the SAVA Co-op Artists

 

3011 N. St. Mary's

San Antonio, TX  78212

 

Our ARTWORK will be on view and for sale for the remainder of November and throughout December.  BUY ART!  It would make a great Holiday Gift!

Sunset Limited to New Orleans

Early Departure from San Antonio

Los Angeles to New Orleans

Dining Car on the Train

Amtrak Lounge Car with a View

 Railroad Sites along the Way . . .

 

 

 

 

 

Season's Gift Ideas~~Holidays 2012

Gifts from the Heart this Holiday

The Three Amigos, a Recent Commissioned Pet Portrait

 

If you're looking for a uniquely personal gift, a commissioned pet portrait could be just the answer this Holiday Season.  I'm offering 20% off this month and next.  I will have it finished before Christmas for a HO!HO! HO! Santa Delivery!  Just give me a holiday email or phone call, and I'll get to my Christmas Workshop and start right on it!  Email:  cski02@sbcglobal.net . . .  Studio Phone:  210.522.0706

 

Taos Gorge, 9x12 Landscape of NM

Golden Morning, featured at the Hotel Valencia





 







The paintings on the left are recent ones in my American Landscape series.  Taos Gorge, New Mexico, a painting I completed this past October, is based upon an awesome scene I first witnessed outside Taos, New Mexico last Fall.  I sketched and photographed it from the gorge bridge that spanned this natural wonder. I especially loved the Southwest colors of pinks, lavendars, and sages, and I tried to capture them in my artwork.  Golden Morning, now on exhibit at the Hotel Valencia on the Riverwalk, is a landscape that I painted when I was traveling this past summer in Northern Pennsylvania.  The morning scene came from the farm where I stayed when visiting Wellsboro, PA.