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Even though much of your Long Distance operations are presently disrupted through no fault of yours or your Politico "overseers", make the best of the day. Lest we forget, you have clearly outlived your life expectancy anyone within the industry (including management lesserlings like myself) gave you by now more than thirty years.
Of interest here is a related topic from another site:
Climbing toward 5,000 posts like the Southwest Chief ascending Raton Pass. Cautiously, not nearly as fast as in the old days, and hoping to avoid premature reroutes. Posts: 4203 | From: Western North Carolina | Registered: Feb 2004
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For what it be worth, the weather here in the "Land of the Burlingtons" is quite nice and seasonal today. In fact, I would dare say it is a 'dead on ringer' for that on A-Day forty years ago.
Omens, anyone?
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Chris, that is truly great stuff. I wish you another million miles on Amtrak over the next 40 years; don't ever stop taking pix!
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Yes! Happy 40th.Amtrak. Thank you for keeping passenger rail travel going with what resources you have,... and what appears to be, we hope, a renaissance for rail travel.
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Nice article...... and the video piece was fairly well done.
Wish we had gotten a picture of train time at the temporary Denver station.
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While most of this Joe Sharkey column appearing in Tuesday's Times is devoted to 'bombarding the enemy', there are some "positive" comments within such, and this appears to be the most appropriate active topic at which to share:
......Zita Carno cited security hassles for recently canceling a first-class reservation.
“Yes,” he wrote, “the airlines have seen the last of me. From now on it’s either take a train or drive.”.......Charles V. Bremer was very definitive. “I will never set foot in an airport again,” partly because of “that T.S.A. nonsense,” he said.
He said he used trains when possible, and for a trip later this year, he and his wife opted for yet another form of transportation to London.
“We will go over and back on the Queen Mary 2,” he said.
Posts: 9975 | From: Clarendon Hills, IL USA (BNSF Chicago Sub MP 18.71) | Registered: Apr 2002
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I will conditionally disagree with her point #1. Yes, coach travel is competitive, but a sleeper does add significantly to the cost when compared to corresponding air travel.
I heartily agree with her point #10.
Richard
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