scott%bgsu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA (Tom Scott) (01/08/86)
I'm a Midwesterner (Bowling Green, Ohio) who envies all you lucky folks on the East Coast because you still have decent train service. Trains flourished here when I was a boy in the late 1940's and early 1950's, but nowadays we have to go by car, bus, or plane. There are practically no trains. We still like to read about railroads, though. For example, "The Detroit News" yesterday (Tuesday, January 7) carried a nice front-page article about the New York-Washington Executive Sleeper that is attached to the Night Owl. It departs Washington Union Station daily at 10:30 p.m. and arrives New York Penn Station at 2:44 a.m., with the return trip departing at 3:00 a.m. and arriving at 8:22 a.m. Has anyone in this newsgroup been on the Executive Sleeper or on one of the Night Owl regular coaches? What's it like? I'll bet it's fun. Thinking about it brings back pleasant memories from my childhood. I have especially fond memories of the terminal at Cincinnati, Ohio; I remember how awestruck I was every time we passed through it. I probably would have fainted if my parents had taken me through one of the big New York terminals like Grand Central or Penn Station! Some day I hope to make the Executive Sleeper trip with my wife. You Easterners can count your blessings that you can make the trip without having to wait.
jis1@mtgzz.UUCP (j.mukerji) (01/13/86)
> Has anyone in this newsgroup been on the Executive Sleeper or > on one of the Night Owl regular coaches? What's it like? I'll bet I must admit I have never been all the way from New York to Washington DC on either the Night Owl or the Executive Sleeper, but I have often travelled on the Night Owl by coach from New York to Metropark. Since I usually go into NYC by driving to Metropark and then taking NJTransit or Amtrak from there into the City, the Night Owl works out to be a very convenient train to get home on after a late party in NYC. Of late, they have started using Amfleet II coaches on the Night Owl, and Amfleet II equipment is usually much smoother than the Heritage equipment when it comes to running at 90+ MPH. Jishnu Mukerji AT&T Information Systems Labs Middletown NJ
rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees) (01/16/86)
I'm a Midwesterner (Bowling Green, Ohio) who envies all you
lucky folks on the East Coast because you still have decent train
service. Trains flourished here when I was a boy in the late 1940's
and early 1950's, but nowadays we have to go by car, bus, or plane.
There are practically no trains.
Sorry to disappoint you, but that's true here as well. I live in Boston,
and the express service to New York City was discontinued several years
ago. You can't get a train to Montreal, and even the local service to
places like Worcester and Framingham either doesn't run at all or only
runs once a day at inconvenient times.
I love trains, but it's US government policy that you *will* buy a car,
and you *will* drive it everywhere, or else you just won't go.
Not to open a big debate on this issue, but am I the only one who resents
this tyranny of the majority?percus@acf4.UUCP (01/18/86)
> I love trains, but it's US government policy that you *will* buy a car, > and you *will* drive it everywhere, or else you just won't go. > > Not to open a big debate on this issue, but am I the only one who resents > this tyranny of the majority? You are most certainly not the only one. The case is not only one of "tyranny of the maijority," but rather one of letting the weak-minded conformists rule. Sorry to pollute net.railroad with these flames, but I have to get rid of my frustrations somehow. . ------- |-----| A. G. Percus |II II| (ARPA) percus@acf4 |II II| (NYU) percus.acf4 |II II| (UUCP) ...{allegra!ihnp4!seismo}!cmcl2!acf4!percus |II II| -------