It's the distance between cities that kills rail here. Except on the east coast, travel times between big cities require an overnight ride. Planes are so much faster for anything over 200 miles. Been that way since 1947... Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 2:24 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Scott Loveless >> >> On 5/23/09, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> > I like railways travel. It's very civilised - by far the most >>> > enjoyable way >>> > of travelling long distances. >> >> Obviously, you have never experienced Amtrak - the airline of the >> railways. > > It's not that bad everywhere Amtrak runs ... > > Still, it doesn't make sense that every other country in the world seems to > be able to figure out how to get passenger trains to go where they're > needed, pretty much when they're needed, in a fairly efficient expeditious, > affordable manner, but we can't do it in the U.S. > > Rail travel was the treat of my 2004 visit to Scotland. All the major cities > and many of the minor ones were connected by rail. > > Of course, they also had comfortable, convenient inter-city bus service as > well. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
