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Here I am at 4,000 posts and no revenue passenger has yet boarded a Wisconsin Talgo!
I'll be changing my tag line now!
-------------------- David Pressley
Advocating for passenger trains since 1973!
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Congrats!! We've all benefited at this forum, from those 4,000 posts.
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Well, I was hoping to take a trip on a Wisconsin-built Talgo before Mr. Pressley reached 4000 posts, but it looks like he beat me to it--congratulations! I don't know if the Wisconsin-built trains have entered revenue service yet, but I'll be watching for them at King Street Station.
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Congratulations (sort of). You beat me to your goal. Here's to hoping I'll see train service back through Madison in my lifetime.
-------------------- "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one corner of the Earth all one's life." Posts: 506 | From: Wisconsin | Registered: Mar 2002
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quote:Originally posted by CG96: Congratulations (sort of). You beat me to your goal. Here's to hoping I'll see train service back through Madison in my lifetime.
During my 'younger days' in the 1990's and early 2000's I volunteered with both the Colts and Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps.
As such, I had need every summer (and still go back for visits from time to time..... most recently this past July) to travel to either Dubuque, IA or Madison if not both.
I used a number of convoluted travel arrangements over the years before finally settling in to flying or Amtrak to Milwaukee and the Badger Coach over to Madison. It worked BUT I am firmly convinced that there is no city in the United States better poised to take full advantage of rail passenger service than Madison, WI. Given 3 or 4 daily departures to Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Airport station, and Chicago and the educated, progressive, green-minded populace of Madison would have filled those Talgos up.
I will continue visiting that area of the country for drum corps events and reunions and I will always try to work an Amtrak ride into my travel plans...... though it looks now like the odds are better that my Amtrak destination will be Dubuque before Madison.
-------------------- David Pressley
Advocating for passenger trains since 1973!
Climbing toward 5,000 posts like the Southwest Chief ascending Raton Pass. Cautiously, not nearly as fast as in the old days, and hoping to avoid premature reroutes. Posts: 4203 | From: Western North Carolina | Registered: Feb 2004
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Where and when was the last passenger train in Madison? My Google skills are not up to much this morning, it seems! The only reference I can find is to a Sioux train that run up until A-day in 1971 (and this forum doesn't like parenthesis in URLs so I can't link to it - search Wikipedia). Whereabouts in Madison would that have stopped? Is there still a depot there?
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'The Sioux' did survive until A-Day; a companion daylight train, 'The Varsity', did not fare so well.
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I'm guessing that that E-unit and the stainless steel coach are 'part of the atmosphere' for the restaurant?
-------------------- David Pressley
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The only single level stainless cars ever owned by the MILW were five 'Pacific--' 10-6 Sleepers that they acquired from UP during June 1969. This transaction hardly represented any optimism regarding passenger trains, but rather a 'payoff' from UP to MILW for an imbalance of car-miles arising from The Pullman Company's folding.
Those cars never went to Amtrak; instead they went 'South of the Border'.
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