Trapped on The Florida Special
Magical and terrifying, the great dragon of a train chugged down the coast
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4 min readJan 12, 2023
When I was a young kid, my parents refused to fly. For several years, the family took the train from New York to Florida to vacation.
The train, which left in the early evening from Penn Station, looked like an enormous, smoking dragon to me. At the age of five…