Brian Schmidt oltmannd The Cardinal is scheduled 8:32 from Chicago to Cincy. 37 mph. It's a 4:30 drive. The train is not very useful. I'll take a slower train that allows me to do things other than focus on driving for four hours. If I take a six-hour train ride and work four hours, then the net loss is only two hours. If I drive that same trip in four hours, I've still lost four hours.
oltmannd The Cardinal is scheduled 8:32 from Chicago to Cincy. 37 mph. It's a 4:30 drive. The train is not very useful.
I'll take a slower train that allows me to do things other than focus on driving for four hours. If I take a six-hour train ride and work four hours, then the net loss is only two hours. If I drive that same trip in four hours, I've still lost four hours.
C&NW, CA&E, MILW, CGW and IC fan
oltmanndThe Cardinal is scheduled 8:32 from Chicago to Cincy. 37 mph. It's a 4:30 drive. The train is not very useful.
Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine
The Cardinal is scheduled 8:32 from Chicago to Cincy. 37 mph. It's a 4:30 drive. The train is not very useful.
4 hour 30 minute drive - IF - you don't get caught in traffic on the Interstates in and around the Chicago area.
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Deggesty It's amazing what a man who likes to ride trains was willing to put up with
It's amazing what a man who likes to ride trains was willing to put up with
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
Paul, I agree. Even before the PC came into being, the service had gone downhill drastically. Forty-four years ago, the traffic was not there.
In the spring of 1969, I had planned a trip which would take me, along with other routes, from Washington to St. Louis on the C&O-B&O, thence to Chicago on the former Wabash, and overnight to Cincinnati. Going into Cincinnati, I thought I should look to make sure that the overnight train from Chicago still ran--and I found that it had been abolished. So, I took the C&O to Detroit and what was left of the Cincinnatian to Cincinnati. It's amazing what a man who likes to ride trains was willing to put up with
Johnny
It would appear that the source implied by the OP was indulging in some wishful thinking. A realistic Chicago-Cincinnati service hasn't existed since prior to Penn Central.
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Editor Emeritus, This Week at Amtrak
I recently read that the Hoosier State may expand to Cincy. Would that help save the service?
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