State Capitals

[BaltACD]

oltmannd

I think you should give Annapolis MD a "bye", too. It's a suburb of DC and Baltimore these days.

Using your logic...each named city is a suburb of each of the others as they form a triangle of roughly 35 miles to each leg.

[4merroad4man]

Does Carson City even have any rail service to speak of?  And if so, is the line really a candidate for any kind of upgrade?  Reno isn't that far away....maybe CC should get a bye also?

[oltmannd]

A lot of those state capitals are pretty small places. Augusta, ME, Pierre, SD, Bismark, ND, Carson City, NV, Frankfort, KY. Then, there are those smallish state capitals that, rather surprisingly, have train service - Salem, OR, Jefferson City, MO, Charleston WV, Montpelier, VT. And those large cities, that surprisingly, have none - Columbus OH, Nashville, TN, Montgomery, AL. I think you should give Annapolis MD a "bye", too. It's a suburb of DC and Baltimore these days.

[BNSFwatcher]

This is a highly "non-scientific" survey.  How many state capitals lack passenger rail service?  Off the top-of-my-head, I came up with MT, ND, SD, WI, WY, ID, NV, AZ, FL, KY, TN, OH, NH, ME, MD, and IA.  I may have missed some, or gotten some wrong.  I gave VT a "bye" with Montpelier Junction.  I wonder how many lack freight rail service.  They range all over the political spectrum.  Where are the politicos, when we need them?  Interesting, methinks.

Bill