Trains

 

Naples train

The photo is of a passenger train rolling into (or maybe out of) Naples, sometime in the last century. Train service continued into Naples into the early Eighties (but never went much beyond it). There were definitely passenger trains still pulling into Naples at the start of 1969, when I have James Summerlin board one to carry him back to college after Christmas vacation. That, of course, happens in ‘One Christmas in the Sun.’ James is just quirky enough to take the slow way from Naples to Boston. The train depot (and, to some extent, the tracks) does show up from time to time in both my Women in the Sun novels. It was very much of a landmark and now serves as a museum (or something of that sort).