Have you traveled outside the US? In many countries, you buy a ticket to use the trains and ferries as soon as you arrive, because you can go anywhere in the country using public transportation. But not in the US. I haven’t heard anybody say that improving our public transportation is part of the plans to “rebuild our infrastructure” but I’d love to be able to take the train anywhere I wanted to go.
Please leave a comment with your first 50 words on the topic “take the train.”
First 50 Words - Prompts for Writing Practice 
Let the train take the strain
Floods stopped the train.George heard the announcer explain that buses would now complete the journey. At the station he was one of three-hundred people in monsoon like rain. When buses did arrive George became part of the mob leaving the weak and loaded to struggle.
His descent shocked him.