Posted on 08/11/2010 10:52:32 AM PDT by Willie Green
Better than just playing cars & trucks with it like we do now.
How many miles is it from Rutland to NYC and how long did it take.
Never, I don’t live there and the tracks aren’t coming to me. Plus high speed rail would be a high value target for terrorists and access to the track would be nearly impossible to secure.
For what it's worth, I've got a 1952 Official Railway Guide...and I checked.
There were two services: One left Rutland at 12:55 PM, arriving at Grand Central at 7:35 PM -- providing thru coach service. The other left Rutland at 11:40 PM, arriving at Grand Central at 6:40 AM (through sleeper).
The railway mileage is listed at 233.
In other words, about seven hours...an average of 33 mph. And this was in railroading's hey-day...
So I am guessing it was not a daily commute. LOL!
You're in luck, the stockyards have been closed.
The gov't could have probably flown you there in a private plane for less.
Only if it was significantly cheaper than air. High-Speed Rail, Atlanta-Chicag, will still require 7 hours on the train.......
“High-Speed” is a relative term, and “High-Speed Rail” is quite SLOW compared to air.
Osaka-Tokyo makes some sense because the distance is very short. The further the distance, the less sense rail makes, unless you’ve got time to kill, which few people have.
I had to allow about an hour and a half to drive to Rutland, and about 5-6 hours to Penn Station, depending on how late it was. Down on Monday and back on Thursday.
The train wasn’t always that empty. Often crowded as far as Albany, and sometimes quite a few all the way to Vermont in Ski season. And you had to reserve a seat for the week of Thanksgiving several months ahead.
Also, the tracks past Saratoga were basically owned and maintained by the freight trains, although most likely Amtrak contributed to fixing the rails and ties.
I can't imagine what a long ride on a Greyhound today is like.
OK, so I’d have to drive 2 hours to get to Atlanta so that I could ride a train to Nashville. Then rent a car in Nashville so that I could get around town.
No thanks.
These statist are certainly persistent - they HATE that people have the freedom of movement represented by the automobile.
If it was a sound idea, Norfolk & Southern and CSX would be running competitive passenger service to those cities already.
Swing low, sweet chariot...coming for to carry me home. Swing low...
Not bad at all at the time...which was before Interstates. How long to drive the same distance over two lane country roads, through two bit towns and stuck behind haywagons?
Lonely days are gone, I'm a'goin' home;
'Cause my baby just wrote me a letter.
With a squirrel cage cooler in the driver's side window...
I have never been to Vermont, one of the few states I have not visited (Vermont, NH, Maine, Wisconsin and Minnesota). I hear it is beautiful.
Yes, Vermont is really beautiful. As is the coast of Maine, where we spend our summers.
I don’t think it would be worth the duplicated eminent domain issues (this thing has to occupy strips of land somewhere, and probably could not share rails with existing freight or Amtrak lines).
It would be better to get the clumsy bureaucratic hassles out of air travel.
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