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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by donclark Those who wi***o kill Amtrak have done their very best to underfund it. They will probably get their wish when the bridges fall from a lack of maintanence on the NEC. Amtrak has to purchase/lease specially made electric locomotives because the electric lines of the NEC have 3 different voltages. Any other country with high speed rail would have already made necessary changes to operate on only one voltage. Yes, Fort Wayne is a small city. However, in your presentation Los Angeles isn't. If I were you I would check the airfares from say Santa Barbara to Fort Wayne to understand what I meant about flying to and from small cities. Obviously, you haven't a clue..... In my internet search, Expedia, the cheapest fare is $570 on the redeye with connections in Los Angeles and Chicago for a 9 hour flight later this week without a Saturday night layover, short notice. Ahhhhhhhhhh, big cities have cheaper rates than smaller cities and towns........ Makes you wonder what the price of a flight from Salt Lake City to Fort Wayne is....the cheapest I found was $530...... Just living in Los Angeles provides airfares $200 less than living in Salt Lake City or Santa Barbara....... We can play this game forever...... Notice that those opposed to Amtrak always use flights connecting the big cities..... never the smaller cities in both cases.... [/quote] Don, I think you are being unkind in your assesment of my "not having a clue" and I'll tell ya, if it's really a flame war ya want, pack a lunch, as I have formidable skilz as a troll. Don't threaten me with a good time.(Just let me know, I'll be *there*) And, you are extremely misguided in your innuendo that I might be "anti Amtrak" as I assure you that is not the case, I am anti-nonsense. And the pricing policy I experianced with Amtrak when first hoping to book a trip via rail with sleeper service WAS PURE NONSENSE. Sorry I can't hold a grudge against only parties you deem fit, but that's your job, not mine. There is no way in hootin' holler that the cramped quarters in an Amtrak sleeper merit higher cost than a night in a standard Holiday Inn, You see, it was overnight sleeping accomodations I desired, not an opportunity to buy into an accelerated depreciation schedule, for which I'd abandon my equity in the second i stepped off the train (talk about giving a new meaning to time share) but that's what the nonsense (pricing policy)from Amtrak seems to reflect. I'd like Amtrak to get it's act together with value related pricing, comensurate with what I receive, rather than what some boneheaded congressman thinks I might be willing to pay, if I were not adverse to nonsense..... But adverse to Amtrak? I assure you, most certainly not!!
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