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To: Stoat
Rail Britannia: Newly found pix reveal train travel was once glorious experience, not shabby ordeal

Proving yet again, that those who don't know their history . . . . .



(In this case, repeating THIS history wouldn't be a bad thing. The old passenger rail service in Europe, Britain and the US endeared me to train travel as a kid. I loved it then and would STILL travel by train if there were any trains going where I am going and the service wasn't Amtrak.)

11 posted on 12/11/2008 7:33:02 PM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: DustyMoment
Rail Britannia: Newly found pix reveal train travel was once glorious experience, not shabby ordeal

Proving yet again, that those who don't know their history . . . . .

....will find a way to rationalize societal decline  :-)

(In this case, repeating THIS history wouldn't be a bad thing. The old passenger rail service in Europe, Britain and the US endeared me to train travel as a kid. I loved it then and would STILL travel by train if there were any trains going where I am going and the service wasn't Amtrak.)

I'm not intimately familiar with the financial arrangements of Amtrak, but my understanding is that it is HEAVILY subsidized by taxpayers....yet service and quality remains abysmal....another testament to the lie of "if it's broken, let Government run it and it will all be better".

17 posted on 12/11/2008 8:03:22 PM PST by Stoat (Palin / Coulter 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
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