TrainsMag.com Reader Poll – December 8, 2003

[Bergie]

Are your holiday travel plans going to include rail travel? Please vote then share your comments.

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[Modelcar]

No travel plans at this time requiring public conveyance....

[mudchicken]

Not unless UP or BNSF call us out to a panel party because some train-crew got lonely during the holidays. (Or some unthinking pipeline contractor spills another UPS train like Iowa last year).

MC

[Anonymous]

I'll be home for Christmas....

[JoeKoh]

No My wifes Family lives here locally.Unless you can get Csx to run a special down to Dayton the weekend after Christmas.
stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

No,..but then I plan no holiday travell

[kenneo]

I get to work! My travel plans are from y door to my works door and back home.

Too bad. So sad.

[Mickhall]

[V]My wife and I were planning to take the Budd car up-island on Xmas day and catch a ride to the ferry in Nanaimo with my brother and sistet-in-law but we found out that VIA doesn't run the train on Xmas day. Pity.

Mick Hall

[Anonymous]

[8D]No big travel planes in the works. I would use rail travel if it went to my destination[:D]

[GRR7315]

AMTRAK travel from HARRISBURG PA to FLAGSTAFF AZ & return this past June. Home for the HOLIDAYS.....

[Anonymous]

When you and your spouse are working, it is really hard to travel during the holidays. We are hoping to actually get to Catalina Island off the coast of California this year.

[trainfan1221]

That is unless you count the local transit system for an occasional trip into New York.

[trainfan1221]

To clarify, I voted no.

[Anonymous]

After traveling over 8,000 happy miles via Amtrak this past summer it is time to rest these old tired bones. Looking foreward to next summer. I hope they are still pounding the rails in 04. [8D]

[Anonymous]

I'm not planning on any travel during the Holidays. But I do have a question, why doesen't Amtrack revise some of their routes, for years it has been the same and some of us live so far away from any route. We have plenty of freight trains but no passenger.

[wgmklm]

I have just returned from an excellent trip on Amtrak # 365, 3, 768, 583, 4, 364, and Via #72 After New Year's I'll be off on Via #1 to Vancouver, and back, also, on The E&N out of Victoria, then home to work the rest of the year, to pay for it.

[Anonymous]

If traveling from Madison, WI to Grand Rapids, MI is ever possible by convenient, fast rail service in my lifetime, I will use it for holiday travel and rejoice that I can avoid Chicagoland traffic and Chicagolanders will rejoice to have one less cheesehead cluttering their crowded highways.

[Max_Cox]

No, there isn't a passenger train within 200 miles.

[Anonymous]

This will be my 4th holiday trip on the Vermonter. My brother lives near Lebanon, NH. I take NJ Transit to Newark and usually make a cross-platform transfer. Started using Business Class 2 yrs ago, after sitting behind a lady with a very "active" baby! Why doesn't Amtrak have changing tables in its restrooms?

Last year there was 18" of snow Christmas night. The P42 had so much snow/ice on its roof they wouldn't let it under the wires at New Haven. Got into NYP 3 hours late!

My brother doesn't understand why anyone would want to spend 8 hours on a train when the drive takes about 6. I tell him the significant word is "drive".

-Kent Loudon
Somerville, NJ

[JoeUmp]

Nope, they're all coming here.

[Anonymous]

Aloha

If we could get a train here in Hawaii (not counting the LKPRR) I'd be first in line.
I ride each time am on mainland. Miss the rails.
Alloha from Hawaii

[Anonymous]

Leaving on Coast Limited and then onto Sunset to AZ and a return trip in March 2004

[Anonymous]

You better believe it.[^] I'm bound to a wheelchair and AMTRAK has ALWAYS taken care of me better than anyone else ever has. I would never consider anything else.[:)][:)]

[Anonymous]

Not travelling for Christmas by Train ... have the week off and staying home ... but frequently take the train to Toronto ... will be taking a train trip this summer to the far north from Cochrane to Moosonee then from Hearst to Sault Ste Marie.

[walthuston]

Insteda of travel, I'll be at the Washington State History Museum running trains on my layout during their "Train Festival." If you live near Tacoma, Washington, come on down between 11am and 5 pm from Dec 26 thru 31 or Jan 2 thru 4, 2004. There will be others running trains too, including the museum's own layout featured in Great Model Railroads 2004. Mine was in Great Model Railroads 2003. Happy Holidays.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, no rail travel planned for the near future but intend to do my share of watching with a camera! Interesting how so many TRAINS readers responding to last poll are also photographers! [:)]

[Anonymous]

My husband, daughter and I are taking the Coast Starlight from Seattle to Oxnard, CA and back (after a 2 week stay in Cali).

[Anonymous]

My wife and I have no travel plans for the holidays. All of our children are here in town, so there is no need for travel. HOWEVER, if we were to travel, it would definitely be by rail. I didn't care for aiport hassles before September 11, 2001, let alone now-Amtrak would be the way!!

[Anonymous]

I'll be traveling - but unfortunately by air. The way it stands now it takes more than two days to get from Iowa to Florida and another two days to get back. That doesn't leave much time for the family when you get one week of vacation at Christmas.

[Anonymous]

My wife & I planned to use 21/22 Chicago to Dallas/Austin/San Antonio over the Holidays. I tried booking space about six-weeks ago only to find out that sleeper space was SOLD OUT for any reasonable window around our intended departure date (+/- 5 days).
So, it will be a long drive.