I am just about done with trains.

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jeaton

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From: Rockton, IL
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Posted by jeaton on Friday, September 3, 2004 10:03 AM

Oh, well...

"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo Possum "We have met the anemone... and he is Russ." Bucky Katt "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in physics

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 3, 2004 10:02 AM

Now, now, CHPENNSYLVANIA.
Loss is a part of life, and there is still plenty to appreciate in western Pa. I despaired when the Broadway was cut, and I couldn't believe that our state didn't even rate one through train to Chicago. I thought I would never heal, but life goes on.
The Three Rivers appeared not too long after that (as a through train). True, it was always just a mail/express train with coaches as an afterthought - which is one reason I'm going to be able to handle its demise at least better than you - but it showed there was at least a bit of life left in the Keystone State yet. And though it certainly looks bad for the Three Rivers, nobody has actually done anything official yet, have they?

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Anonymous

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I am just about done with trains.

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 3, 2004 9:45 AM

With the recent CANCELLATION of ANY daily RAIL service between Philadelphia and Chicago I feel that passenger trains in America are gone forever. This is the final Amtrak cancellation that I will see as a Interested Railfan. I see the discontinuation of the Three Rivers as a sad and not good descision and one that has made me not want to be a railfan any longer. Now that about 1 train serves my whole state (Pittsburgh-Philadelphia) veiwing trains has now become to difficult to do. Hopefully train service will be turned into something great in the future but until then..............long live the Jet and Automobile.