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Loco ride along------ ??? Aw heck, good luck, these days, with all the security concerns. I guess they are justified and we'll just have to come to terms with that... I DO think rail can compete with air in short corridors... does a really good job of it up here on the Cascades Corridor, one of the few ops that Amtrak does right, (And which I hope Mister Gunn isn't going to screw up by his reorganization.) But that's a corridor with about 200 route miles or less between city pairs. On long distance? Eh. It's going to take a lot to compete with air for travellers who actually have to Get There fairly on time. The real competition is more with auto in short distance, urban corridors, and in super-long distance, cross country corridors. You might want to go to (gasp) the site for Railway Age, and read what the AAR chairman said to Congress today. (I'll bet Trains.com will post it tommorow afternoon.) The long and short of his testimony was "don't stick us with passenger trains without building capacity on our systems to accomodate it. Otherwise, your passenger trains will clog our system and force millions of trailers back onto the highways, which will make pollution WORSE not better." Hope somebody up there was awake and listening.....
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