quote:Originally posted by RRCHINA: Many good ideas and some great routes that once were popular.
However, none of you have mentioned a PRINTING PRESS to generate the $$$$. None of this can happen without $$$$ and all Dictators know it.
I would buy land in alaska for a new route, then change my mind after amtrak owns the land, then rent oil drilling to the oil companys.
Posts: 562 | From: Beaumont Texas | Registered: Jul 2005
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i would also lease a few steam engines like the daylight and put them in service on the empire builder route.
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No I was talking about I-80 as in Interstate 80 the highway that runs from New Jersey to California. And yes the Trestle is still there.
Posts: 516 | From: New Haven, CT USA | Registered: Feb 2005
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I particularly like the twice daily idea for all LD trains.
Some other ideas in a dream world, though I honestly don't know the feasibility...
Extend the Pennsylvanian to Kansas City (or even Omaha) via Cincinatti and St. Louis - This would probably be the most direct way of linking NY and LA.
Operate a new link between Chicago and Florida via the Cardinal's route to Cincinatti, then South towards Atlanta, SE to Savannah, and then onto the rails of the Silver services.
As a result, Cincy (and Pittsburgh as well) would add interchange possibilties between the Cardinal, the Capitol Limited, the newly extended Pennsylvanian, and the new Chi-FL train.
Further West, a Northward extension from Oklahoma City tying in with the SW Chief, and then diverging to meet the CZ and terminate at Denver would add some good connections, as might a Denver-El Paso route.
And certainly would like to see service restored to L.V., NV from LA, and onward to Salt Lake City.
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