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Posted by blue streak 1 on Friday, January 22, 2010 8:22 PM
CSSHEGEWISCH

Apparently, the promoters couldn't get enough people to buy a package which included the chartered train to and from the race track.  Metrolink was not operating this service on its own initiative, they just provided the train for the promoters.

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Maybe promoters ran up against a confirmation deadline with Metrolink and did not have enough package ticket purchases. Around here most events lately are getting sold just days or even hours before an event.

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Friday, January 22, 2010 10:19 AM

Apparently, the promoters couldn't get enough people to buy a package which included the chartered train to and from the race track.  Metrolink was not operating this service on its own initiative, they just provided the train for the promoters.

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Posted by al-in-chgo on Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:21 PM

Does this seem analogous to Chicagolanders of Metra's non-service to Arlington Park?  That took effect a year or two ago IIRC, but I'm not saying I do recall correctly time-wise.

I don't worry about there being a flawed or evasive explanation of that suspension so much as it was a offered as simple fact, a non-explanation accepted as pat by the media and apparently the populace too.  I'm not trying to hijack this topic and am not going to infer motive or conspiracy; I just don't know.  Maybe somone here will.  (And if it bears discussion, we should probably open up a new thread.) 

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Thursday, January 21, 2010 7:01 PM

Oh how tricky. Sell me a ticket letting me assume or actually promote the Metrolink option and then cancel Metrolink. Any bets that did not happen?

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No Trains to the races
Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:59 PM

Auto Club Speedway at Fontana, CA will no longer have Metrolink supply service to their NASCAR races

http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/news?slug=nascar_com-auto.club.metrolink.suspended-20100121&prov=nascar_com&type=lgns

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