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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
It was in a crappy state of repair -- booths with broken glass, and the like. The ticket counters were cordoned off -- I swear, you could almost hear 50 years ago.
How did the age of rail end so quickly?
I was meeting up with a relative I barely know, on her way back to Santa Fe from Palm Springs. She's stopped flying since 9/11. Not because she's afraid the planes will crash, or anything, just afraid that she'll go off on the TSA people and get on a blacklist. She's a bit of a hippy commie.
How did the age of rail end so quickly?
Too much competition from those personal transportation thingies powered by internal combustion engines. Oh, and apparantly you can pay to fly above the surface of the earth to your destination.
Too much competition from those personal transportation thingies powered by internal combustion engines. Oh, and apparantly you can pay to fly above the surface of the earth to your destination.
You can do that in Europe too, but people still take the train.
Crazy Americans.
> How did the age of rail end so quickly?
Too much competition from those personal transportation thingies powered by internal combustion engines. Oh, and apparantly you can pay to fly above the surface of the earth to your destination.
Note that in Europe and lots of places that are not the U.S. the age of rail never ended. The oil companies, the auto companies and the tire companies bought a cheap efficient rail system in the U.S., tore it down and replaced it with our current bus system. Before that happened LA had the best public transit in the U.S. - It was a great place to live without a car.
Well yeah, there's that too.
Trains are fun. Long train trips are fun. Too bad Bush wants to cut all Amtrak funding.
You can do that in Europe too, but people still take the train.
Why? It's about a katrillion times cheaper to fly in Europe, than it is to take the train.
Before that happened LA had the best public transit in the U.S. - It was a great place to live without a car.
....cf., Who Killed Roger Rabbit.
It's about a katrillion times cheaper to fly in Europe, than it is to take the train.
But it's not nearly fun.
Well, I bought the suitcases.
And a sweater.
And a dress.
Somebody stop me?
God, I love the train. Only reason while touring Morocco that we made it to the capital was because we heard it had a good train.
It's still a viable option in Canada too, economically. It was how we used to get from Montreal to New York.
I have an ER question. Why can't it just jump the shark properly, jump it in a way that doesn't leave me with two or three ships to root for, plus favourite characters? Damn them.
eta: All from Overstock, Lee?