Highlighting the best submissions to the #CaltrainNovel Contest

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The Instructions to the latest (and greatest) Caltrain contest were simple:

Write the opening line of the great American #CaltrainNovel.

Most RT/Favs gets #Caltrain tshirt. Use the hashtag. Go! — Caltrain (@Caltrain) November 14, 2017

Let's take a look at some of the best submissions: Romance Novel...

Newly single again, I wondered if I’d ever feel love again. Train was late again and this guy I began cracking jokes. Was it a connection? On the train, I wandered off to sit... then he sat next to me. Chemistry & sparks flew... I could see it in his eyes, too...#CaltrainNovel

— Social Justice Warrior (@sfrockstar415) November 17, 2017

For the History buffs...

*Ding Dong* Caution- the doors are about to close - the start of what is to become a fantastic journey through history. #caltrainNovel

— I do not recall… Jive 🦃 Consolidation (@_DivideXZero) November 14, 2017

Who doesn't love some Fresh Prince of Caltrain...

This is the story all about how, my life got flipped turned upside down, and I like to take a minute, just sit right there, I'll tell you how I became the prince of a train called #Caltrain.#CaltrainNovel pic.twitter.com/GYFXm6rimZ

— Akit (@AgentAkit) November 14, 2017

Ah Suspense!...

He woke up like a startled fox. This was going to be a train ride unlike any other. #CaltrainNovel

— Whattabloke 🙃 (@peppernanny) November 15, 2017

Congrats To The Winner! 26 combined RTs/Likes

The 305 was somewhere between Palo Alto and Hillsdale when the hypnotic clacking of steel on steel gave way to impatient rapping of a plastic radio on the side of train car — ripping me from blissful slumber to the shrill command of “tickets and passes,” please. #CaltrainNovel

— Rick Medefesser (@RMedefesser) November 14, 2017