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Empire Builder moved to a more southerly route?
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[quote user="kenneo"]<p>FM Dave --</p><p>It is impererative that a regular train adhere to its published rout on its published times. If people don't know (or can't depend on ) where and when the train is going to be, they won't ride it. This is why you operate "demonstration" schedules for 2 or 3 years (at least) prior to any consideration of ending a service.</p><p>If you end the split at Spokane, and go either to Seattle or Portland, there will be at least a 4 hour extension to the travel time (either to Portland or Seattle). You will lose nearly all of the traffic bound for the destination that is dependant on a CASCADES schedule. That is why the split is there in the first place. </p><p>About the only way to succesfully eliminate the split would be for daily service of reinstated Trains 25 and 26 - at least through to Denver and preferably on to Kansas City to connect with the Chicago services there and to create a Portland-Spokane-Missoula train. A large percentage of the loadings at Whitefish are from the Clark Fork area. </p><p>And I am not sure that even this would work because a lot of the traffic out of Montana to the West, about 1/2 goes to Seattle and about 1/2 goes to Portland -- and there is good air service out of Missoula and Kalispell to both Seattle and Portland. The traffic required to go via the CASCADES simply would be lost.</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>Then what would be the feasability of running a link train - Missoula, Helena, Laurel, then up thru Great Falls to Shelby. Just that run back and forth, or do you forsee no real traffic to support such a run? </p>
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