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What gone Passenger route do you miss the most?

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A restoration of what the Carter administarion ordered cut in 1979 - where do able - would be a good start. Namely, these routes.. 1) Make the tri-WEAKLIES daily (Sunset, Carindal). 2) A section of the Southwest Chief splitting at Newton, Kan., for Fort Worth and Houston. This restores the LONE STAR, a train that was the 7th most ridden LD train when it was politically cut. This is placed above No. 3 since it would be easier to do, to fill a 150-200 mile sorely needed gap. 3) Reorient Texas Eagle/ Sunset service. Split Eagle at Longview for separate trains (like Empire Bulider at Spokane and Calif. Zephyr formerly did at SLC for LA and SEA) to Houston, Austin & San Antonio and Dallas and Fort Worth. In future, Dallas section would continue to El Paso via Baird Sub to connect to a recheduled Sunset or be a separate train, attracting Dallas-LA passengers that now must endure a roundabout and pokey 9-hour trip (5 hours on Interstate) from Dallas to SAS. Extend Heartland Flyer south to San Antonio and north to at least Newton, Kan., and on to KC, STL/ and or Omaha or CHI. 4) CHI-FL - The KY Cardinal should have been continued and expanded to Nashville and Birminham. Very shortsighted thinking on Amtrak's part not to do No. 2 and 3. 5) Salt Lake - Portland; Salt Lake - Vegas - LA or some version thereof (via WY or LA-SEA via SLC). Also improve EB CZ's departure from SLC from 4:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m., at least. 6) Denver- Texas service. This is the most requested service out of Dallas. Could connect with the above recommendation. 7) A section of the Cardinal splitting at INDIANAPOLIS for St. Louis and on to Kansas City and in the future, Denver or Omaha. This along with a train from INDY to Cleveland and beyond (perhaps Boston) would allow faster Texas and Midwest access to East Coast points instead of the CHI layover. 8) Southern Montana route - restoration of N. Coast Hiawatha. 9) Daytime DC-Atlanta service. 10) Datyime CHI-Cincinnati service 11) Southwest Chief leg to San Francisco area, splitting at Barstow. This would solve misconnects to the Coast Starlight when the SW Chief runs late and provide an all-rail connection to the EB SW Chief from CS. This is my priority in the brief amount of time I've had to write this, but they wouldn't have to be accomoplished in that order, by any means.
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