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Unlikely to happen under the current administration.
On Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 5:02:12 PM UTC-4, houn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Unlikely to happen under the current administration.
The current Administration seeks to destroy Amtrak. It has replaced
dining cars with a sandwich for dinner and a bagel for breakfast, yet increased fares. Not exactly an inducement to travel.
Via the Pennsylvania RR through Philadelphia and Pittsburgh it was 901
miles and via the New York Central through Albany and Toledo it was
960 miles. The NYC route has the better selection of intermediate
cities if one wants to justify a high speed line.
You can run airplanes between any two airports without the expense of building
rail lines, but it does require airports with the traffic capacity for the >airplanes.
Have they retained dining cars at least on the Zephyr or the Eagle?
Does VIA Rail still use dining cars, say on the Ocean?
In article
<chine.bleu-54F269.12491119062018@reader.eternal-september.org>, Siri
Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> wrote:
Via the Pennsylvania RR through Philadelphia and Pittsburgh it was
901 miles and via the New York Central through Albany and Toledo it
was 960 miles. The NYC route has the better selection of
intermediate cities if one wants to justify a high speed line.
You can run airplanes between any two airports without the expense of >>building rail lines, but it does require airports with the traffic
capacity for the airplanes.
No kidding. Having driven home from DCA to upstate New York Monday
night because my planes were cancelled due to EWR going kerflooie in
bad weather, I can say it's a fantasy that we can add more airport
capacity usefully close to city centers.
Have they retained dining cars at least on the Zephyr or the Eagle?
Have they retained dining cars at least on the Zephyr or the Eagle?
I think The Texas Eagle still has a diner, but I'm afraid that the
diner will soon be phased out on all Amtrak trains, in favor of just
doing a cafe/lounge car.
Daryl
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Eisenhower was impressed by the Autobahns he saw in Germany and wanted
to build something similar here. So he did. Don't think the German
ones went through the middle of cities, though.
Eisenhower was impressed by the Autobahns he saw in Germany and wanted
to build something similar here. So he did. Don't think the German
ones went through the middle of cities, though.
IIRC, Eisenhower's plan was to link cities together. I think the idea to >build them through cities came from a more local level. I know one of the >first ones here built through a city was built first, and then officially >became an Interstate later.
Eisenhower was impressed by the Autobahns he saw in Germany and wanted
to build something similar here. So he did. Don't think the German
ones went through the middle of cities, though.
IIRC, Eisenhower's plan was to link cities together. I think the idea to build them through cities came from a more local level. I know one of the first ones here built through a city was built first, and then officially became an Interstate later.
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IIRC, Eisenhower's plan was to link cities together. I think the idea to build them through cities came from a more local level. I know one of the first ones here built through a city was built first, and then officially became an Interstate later.
I thought that another purpose of the Interstate programme was to
quickly move military around the country in the event of an emergency.
ObRail: Boston got as far as condemning and clearing much of the route
for I-695 which is now a linear park with the MBTA Orange line
underneath.