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The original companies that laid that station, tracks and stuff to support passenger ops have been dead for years. Amtrack owns a little bit of stuff but as long as they continue to be fed scraps from Congress's table they will NEVER be allowed to mature into a true national railroad.In the past I have advocated using two to three cities in corridor groups as a means of expanding Amtrack nationwide. It will be a very long time before that happens.I worked with cars part time, thousand cars per week, maybe more. Alot of those cars are merely toys and will not provide long distance support. Some cars are true long haul vehicles and will be very nice for trips. The rest well... they are junk.Last year I had an oppertunity to buy a Toyota. It was about 17K for very good quality but rather small. ok.. brand new. I ended up with a Buick with the V6 and much bigger space for half the price and only 18 months used. And still have handling and giddy up go should aggressive highway manuvers be necessary in rush hour. (Usually is...)When that buick dies, Im buying another buick because when I finish driving on these crappy arkansas concrete or gravel I feel pretty good. In the smaller cars, they just beat you to death and tear up not being built robust enough.I pine for the days of 50's and 60's cars that were bigger than houses and had it all including a good ride. But manuvering these yachts will prove very expensive and difficult today.I used cars as a example of space, luxury versus fatique and time travelling.I personally prefer a Freightliner XL with everything behind a 600 CAT... but we cannot have everything.
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