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TrainsMag.com Reader Poll – December 8, 2003

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Posted by Max_Cox on Monday, December 8, 2003 9:46 PM
No, there isn't a passenger train within 200 miles.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 8, 2003 9:03 PM
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.
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Posted by wgmklm on Monday, December 8, 2003 8:36 PM
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.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 8, 2003 7:49 PM
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.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 8, 2003 7:25 PM
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]
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Posted by trainfan1221 on Monday, December 8, 2003 7:23 PM
To clarify, I voted no.
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Posted by trainfan1221 on Monday, December 8, 2003 7:21 PM
That is unless you count the local transit system for an occasional trip into New York.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 8, 2003 7:13 PM
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.
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Posted by GRR7315 on Monday, December 8, 2003 7:11 PM
AMTRAK travel from HARRISBURG PA to FLAGSTAFF AZ & return this past June. Home for the HOLIDAYS.....
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 8, 2003 7:11 PM
[8D]No big travel planes in the works. I would use rail travel if it went to my destination[:D]
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Posted by Mickhall on Monday, December 8, 2003 7:08 PM
[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
I hear a train a-comin.....
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Posted by kenneo on Monday, December 8, 2003 6:34 PM
I get to work! My travel plans are from y door to my works door and back home.

Too bad. So sad.
Eric
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 8, 2003 6:11 PM
No,..but then I plan no holiday travell
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Posted by JoeKoh on Monday, December 8, 2003 3:25 PM
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

Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 8, 2003 2:12 PM
I'll be home for Christmas....
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Posted by mudchicken on Monday, December 8, 2003 1:34 PM
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
Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west
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Posted by Modelcar on Monday, December 8, 2003 1:15 PM
No travel plans at this time requiring public conveyance....

Quentin

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TrainsMag.com Reader Poll – December 8, 2003
Posted by Bergie on Monday, December 8, 2003 1:07 PM
Are your holiday travel plans going to include rail travel? Please vote then share your comments.

Polls on Trains.com are not scientific and reflect only the opinions of the users who have chosen to participate. The results cannot be assumed to represent the opinions of Internet users in general, the readers of our magazines, nor the public as a whole. Bottom line, our polls are meant for fun and to stimulate conversation amongst our forum users.
Erik Bergstrom

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