A Leisurely Pace on the Foliage Trails一阵悠闲的节奏在叶子的足迹上
Credit: Herb Swanson for The New York Times
Travelers have been gazing at fall foliage through the windows of trains huffing north into the White Mountains of New Hampshire for quite some time. Jennifer Franz of the Hobo Railroad in Lincoln, N.H., sells tickets for trips lasting from one hour to a full day.旅客们透过车窗在注视秋天的落叶,进入到新罕布什尔州的怀特山脉要相当长的一段时间。新罕林肯区的霍伯铁路的詹妮弗弗兰茨,出售旅行车票持续时间从一小时到一整天。
The Hobo Railroad runs along the Pemigewasset River in New Hampshire. Sightseers use the trains for leaf-peeping for a good reason: The trains take passengers through woodlands faster than they could travel by foot but slower than by car.在新罕霍伯铁路沿着佩米格瓦塞特河行驶,观光者使用火车观光为了一个好的原因:火车搭载乘客通过林区比徒步旅行快比汽车慢。
Dennis Prevost, a conductor on the Hobo line, collected tickets from Kaitlin Clark and her grandmother Martha Hedrick.丹尼斯普雷沃,一个霍伯线的售票员,在收取凯特林玛莎克拉克和她祖母赫德里克的门票。
Visitors to the Conway Scenic Railroad in North Conway, N.H., come from all over the world in the fall, and the number of visitors from the Western United States spikes dramatically in October.整个秋季,从全球过来的旅游者,抵达新罕布什尔州北康威铁路风景区,而且十月里从美西部来的游客数呈尖锐变化(急增)。
The Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway in Pennsylvania offers two-and-a-half-hour Hometown High Bridge excursions on weekends in October.在宾夕法尼亚州利哈伊峡谷铁路风景区,在十月周末提供两个半小时的家乡高桥游览。
The Wilmington & Western Railroad, with its 1907 steam engine, runs through the Red Clay Valley in Delaware.美国特拉华州,威尔明顿和西部铁路,拥有1907年的蒸汽机车,行驶通过红粘土地。
The Catskill Mountain Railroad, which chugs down the Esopus River in upstate New York, offers special fall foliage trips.卡茨基尔山铁路,火车轮转的嚓咯声落入纽约北部郊野的伊索珀斯河中,提供特别的秋日落叶旅行。
The Catskill Mountain Railroad runs through a majestic tunnel of tree branches that looks like a cathedral.卡茨基尔山铁路贯穿树枝的景观隧道,像一主教座堂。
Although the notion of “foliage trains” has been around since tourist railroads replaced working ones, these trains keep their popularity because most roll through undeveloped land.尽管“观叶列车”的概念从旅游铁路更新一个个作业区之前已经很火,这些列车保留它们受欢迎的程度,是因为最多的隆隆声通过的是未开发的土地。
The Potomac Eagle train, passing Eagle Rock along the south branch of the Potomac River near Romney, W.Va.波多马克鹰列车,沿西弗吉尼亚州罗姆尼的波托马克河南支线,通过鹰岩。
Boothbay Railway Village in Boothbay, Me., holds a fall foliage festival every October.在缅因州.布斯贝的布斯贝铁路乡村,每年10月举办一次赏叶节。