> 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.
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?
But it's not nearly fun.
I'm assuming you mean as fun. In which case, I don't know. I took the train from London to Paris, and it was nifty. But it took several hours, and was crazy expensive, and it just wasn't $400 worth of cool. The planes were much quicker, much cheaper, and could be funnier if you had orange flight attendants trying to sell you J. Lo's "Glow." So, as trade offs go, I'm glad I got the train experience, but I'll probably pick flying over it in the future.
Yep, ita. I may return the clothes,since they are things that may look good on me, or may just be gross.
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I don't know how many normal people commute by train to LA for work.
I know several people who work at USC who take the train, actually. There used to be one more, but he passed away late last year. It still makes me sad to think about him.
Franny is wearing her bathrobe. Daddy likes to let her run around in robe, no diaper, after her bath. Surprise, surprise, she often pees while in this state of undress. Tonight was no exception. ha ha ha
