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James: With the exception of your comments about the trips through the Dakotas, or maybe your not-entirely-off-the-wall comment about that car commercial, most of you commens are more about urban transit than about passenger trains. Maybe I should've made the subject more specific and called it "Long Distance Passenger Trains". Anyway.... try this on for size: If I want to go to Yellowstone, or Ranier, or Yosemite? I will have to take a car. With the exception of Grand Canyon you cannot travel most of the western sights by rail. Heck, if I want to go just about anywhere, i'll have to use a car. What about Boise? Ok ok, I know what you'll say: who want's to go to Boise? True. (Kidding folks!) But the point is, cars are more flexible than rail in most corridors. You cannot toodle around the countryside in a train. You can see some of it, but you can't exactly hop over to this winery here, and go visit that old fort there, and take a side trip up to the waterfalls. Just like you can't take a car up a trail, or to the top of Mount Whitney or Mount Hood. And gas prices, even when they were high, are still cheaper than an air ticket. Granted, an Amtrak COACH ticket might be cheaper.... But the fact is that for the 99% of the country that isn't in NYC, Chicago, or LA, (you know, the flyover states...) the car will be the primary choice, whether you or I think that's a bad one or not. Oh. And auto gas taxes are paying for the transit you ride.... goodness knows your tickets aren't. But that's another thread entirely. So I guess we will have to agree to disagree. Alexander in Flyover Country
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