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Great description and tips, MC, but let's tell her why the window slams shut at Coolidge (good for a laugh unless you happened to be there at the time)... Back in the early days of Amtrak (early 1970s) they thought they could overturn the local blue laws by claiming (1) the train was not a fixed locale in KS, (2) was in interstate commerce (which my lawyer friends tell me should have worked), and thus was not subject to state regulation, and (3) they were federal, so buzz off. And they opened the bar. This worked great until the KS revenooers bought tickets, got on board and busted the Super's train crew--ALL OF THEM--and left the train and passengers sitting out on the main line in the middle of nowhere out by Dodge City. Amtrak chickened out (no pun intended, steel plumage) and thus the window slams shut. By the way, lest one think they discriminated against trains, they also tried it with airlines, buying tickets for the agents on thru flights and trying to cite the crews for serving drinks in KS airspace. This sort of needled airline management who, like good corporate citizens everywhere, had an investment in most of the reelection campaigns, and a compromise was very quickly reached--no booze in KS airspace only if the plane was going to land or take off at a KS airport. The only relevant airport affected was Wichita. If we didn't have state legislators and regulators, we'd have to invent them. Cheers! (but not east of Coolidge...)
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