QUOTE: Originally posted by Cris Helt For someone who's not old enough to remember pre-Amtrak passenger trains, I find this thread enlightening on rail travel in the sixties. Some railroads cared about their passenger trains, and the rest could care less. Just wondering, but what is the dreaded "Russellburger" served on SP trains? I'm guessing it's one of those nasty microwaved hamburgers named in "honor" of DJ Russell that turns soggy when heated, and tastes like cardboard. [xx(][xx(] Or perhaps cardboard is too nice a description. [:p]
QUOTE: Originally posted by espeefoamer Russelburgers[dinner][xx(][:(!]The #1 reason that the SP Automat was the worst idea ever in the history of railroad dining[:(!][B)][xx(]!
QUOTE: Originally posted by PBenham NYC seemed to have a monopoly on crappy trains, but they were out to kill their passenger service, remember? For that matter so did SP, Southern (Before W. Graham Claytor), L&N,C&EI and PRR.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Texas Zepher QUOTE: Originally posted by PBenham NYC seemed to have a monopoly on crappy trains, but they were out to kill their passenger service, remember? For that matter so did SP, Southern (Before W. Graham Claytor), L&N,C&EI and PRR. I am glad someone brought that up. It wasn't that poor service was being provided due to oversight or mismanagement. Poor service was intentional trying to get ridership down and the government to let them discontinue the passenger trains. I was just young enough to have never ridden any of these, but just old enough to notice a huge difference between the Santa Fe trains I was used to seeing at home and the dirty, rusty, junky trains I saw on a family vacation to Nashville TN. That had to be 1967 or 8.
QUOTE: Originally posted by SILVERCHAMPION The clockers of the old PRR from NYV to Philadelphia
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