The Bay City Noon Optimist Travelogue Series Presents: The Great Trans American Train Ride

Join us as we begin our ride at New York City's Pennsylvania Station aboard the fabled Broadway Limited heading to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and points beyond. At Chicago's Union Station, the legendary California Zephyr with its hi-level Superliner sleepers will depart west, rolling across the prairies, through Denver and into the heart of the Rocky Mountain range. At Salt Lake City the Desert Wind departs out over Utah toward Las Vegas and the California deserts. We will conclude our trip in Los… Show more Angeles at the historic Union Station downtown.Doug Jones has been producing travel films since 1968. He was born and raised in Kansas City and was graduated from the University of Missouri at Kansas City with a degree in Radio and Television Broadcasting. Today he lives in Los Angeles and New York City. Mr. Jones comes to the travelogue business from a varied background. He has worked as a professional entertainer, a radio announcer, a European tour guide, an art dealer and a theatrical producer. His personal travels have taken him around the world and into nearly seventy nations on six continents.Mr. Jones has produced eighteen feature-length travel films. He has appeared on virtually every important auditorium lecture series in the United States and Canada including the National Geographic Society series at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.Mr. Jones' films have been released on home video and DVD and include 'The Great Canadian Train Ride' with over one million copies sold worldwide. He operates an active stock footage business and his material is regularly seen in prime time television shows and national commercials.In addition to his work in producing travel films, he is an avid pilot having made over 40 solo coast to coast flights in his twin Cessna airplane.Mr. Jones is a member the Society of American Travel Writers. He is past president of the International Travel Film Guild and the International Motion Picture and Lecturers Association. He is listed in Who's Who in Entertainment and he was given the 'Film lecturer of the Year' award by the International Platform Association for his outstanding work in the field of travelogue production.

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