favorite passenger train.

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Soo2610

Member since
January 2001
From: US
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Posted by Soo2610 on Sunday, February 10, 2002 6:59 PM

The old Super Chief. My wife worked on it as a registered nurse.

thirdrail1

Member since
January 2001
From: Niue
735 posts

Posted by thirdrail1 on Sunday, February 10, 2002 4:50 PM

"La Aguila Azteca" from San Antonio to Mexico City, followed by the "Broadway Limited" from Chicago to New York, and then the "Panama Limited" from New Orleans to Chicago. I have fond memories of all three.

"The public be ***ed, it's the Pennsylvania Railroad I'm competing with." - W.K.Vanderbilt

Anonymous

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April 2003
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 10, 2002 3:22 PM

Nowadays the new Acela(hate that name) trainsets running at speed on the NEC(in Mass. and R.I where I reside the new catenary facilitates higher speeds than south of NH). Watching one of these blast by at over 100 MPH is something else. As a kid(early 1970's) the then Illinois Central bilevel commuter EMU's were the coolest thing I'd ever ridden on,on the ground anyway(sorry but that 747 out of Logan in 1973(Seagulls ingested into one of the starboard engines leading to an emergency landing) also impressed me mightily). As to the early impressions of airline versus railroad safety,I believe that it was also in seventy three that my dad was fortunately late for his train,missing a horrendous fatal wreck when one of the IC's old brown steel heavyweight electrics plowed into the back of a new,aluminum Bilevel at a suburban Chicago station,opening the new car up like a can of tuna.