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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by csxengineer98</i> <br />and 6 hours across PA from pittsburgh to philly on a good day is not going to cut it when you can drive thier in 4 hours..of fly thier in an hour... <br />amtrak is dead..stop trying to beat a dead horse here.. <br />csx engineer <br />[/quote]This is apples and organges. Since driving takes 4 hours, and a plane can do it less than an hour, likely, should we then stop buidling highways? <br />There's no way a car can compete against a plane in terms of speed. <br /> <br />This type of narrow thinking is what hurts rail, passenger and freight. <br />A passenger train isn't there just to get someone from point A to point B. Passenger trains are different than plans, obviously - but not to many herein- because they can serve intermediate cities much more effectively than planes. <br /> <br />Just try taking a plane from Garden City, Kan. to Albuquerque. Talk about sticker shock!
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