Biden Hails the Good Ole Days, When He Hung Out With Train Engineers, Construction Workers; 'Became My Family'

In case anyone hasn't heard the stories he loves to repeat, Joe "Amtrak" Biden reminisced about riding the rails on Monday, during a stop at a Baltimore train tunnel that will undergo a $4-billion replacement.

"Back in Delaware, I’m known for riding Amtrak, for being their senator all those years," Biden said:

"And most of you know that a senator — as a senator, I rode the train between Washington and Wilmington, and back and forth, every single day that the Senate was in. And they tell me it was about an average 200- — 117 days a year, about 265 miles a day. I put over a million miles on Amtrak — not a joke — including as Vice — including as Vice President.

"Amtrak wasn’t just a way to get home to family," Biden continued:

"The conductors, the engineers — they literally became my family. I used to have a — I used to have a summer party at my home in Delaware. Started off with about 10 conductors and — and — and engineers. Ended up with about 70 people. They might — became my friends. I went to an awful lot of their children’s weddings and, unfortunately, funerals of their — of them.