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[QUOTE]Originally posted by notelvis: [QB] The combined Louisville Auto-Train/Floridian operation was really doomed from the start for a variety of reasons. The schedule had passengers on the train for about 24 hours...... longer than the typical targeted Auto-Train passenger then or now would accept. There were those who suggested that Louisville was further than the average Chicagoan was willing to drive to catch the train.... Indianapolis might have fared better had the track been in decent shape north of Louisville. The Amtrak Floridian was having real reliability issues..... old cars.... some breakdowns.... an accident or two..... This combined operation was really a case of two stepchildren hooking up and not really making it once they did...... not that anyone was surprised by that. And that Louisville AT station....which I used as an Amtrak passenger on four separate occasions AFTER Auto-Train had pulled the plug on their Louisville operation altogether was not quite easy enough to find off the highway. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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