New train movie:
I can only speak for the Seattle - Vancouver BC run, but it’s gorgeous and worth doing just for the ride.
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Trainsets?
The rail system in Europe is great because it has regular and frequent passenger service between cities...even cities spaced a few miles apart. In the US, unless you’re in a cardboard box, you’re not going anywhere soon.
I live in the PNW and have taken the Amtrak Cascades train to Vancouver, BC and Seattle a few times. The trains are rarely full and aren’t reliable enough for daily commuters to use. They are fun to take for an occasional outing, but that’s it.
We just took Amtrak from Rochester NY to Whitefish,MT. I had this fantasy of big cigars and fancy dining cars. Reality bites in the form of dirty outdated sleeper amenities, rude employees (not all), mediocre food.. did I mention dirty? Inside and out; filthy. Chicago Union Sta is like a cathedral with a catacomb beneath. To get to the train there is like navigating a WV coal tunnel. Diesel dust covers everything. Just nasty.
How about resending the laws, rules and regulations the have made it uneconomical from the railroads to offer passenger service?
While they are at it they could do the same our merchant marine.
Of course doing that would hurt the income of lawyers and unions so that idea is DOA.
if Elon Musk or someone of similar ingenuity (not the Dems who have been running it) were mayor, Seattle would be even cooler with a high speed electric aerial monorail by now. Tomorrowland could have been today.
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