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[QUOTE]Originally posted by notelvis: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by sojourner: [qb] Why don't they cancel the Palmetto? What use is the Palmetto anyway? They already have 2 trains a day (with sleepers) to FL, stopping in the Palmetto stops, plus the trains from NC, a state that supports Amtrak. The Palmetto extends the route only to SC and GA, two states whose senators vote against Amtrak all the time! Why have 6 trains a day each way to Savannah? It doesn't seem that busy to me. [/qb][/QUOTE]The Palmetto actually does an incrdible amount of business in an area which has become accustomed to having the train as an option.....meaning that the long-distance passenger train never went away from the old SAL and ACL tracks. I expressed that poorly but there are many places where the passenger train totally went away that never quite re-learned the option well enough in the Amtrak era to stave off the train-whackers. Being on a daylight schedule it really packs the passengers in at places like Florence and Charleston, Fayetteville, and Savannah. Also being on a daylight schedule it is much less costly to operate as there is no diner nor sleeping car service provided. I concur with Mr. Norman that any further retrenchment in the southeast would likely be a move to combine the Star and Meteor on the SAL route through Columbia while leaving the Palmetto as is. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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