chuljin
Lead Service Attendant
One of the many things I picked up during My National Train Day Adventure was the new Capitol Corridor Timetable.
On the front is a picture of a CC train, as well as a picture of Amtrak schedule planners' eternal and mortal enemy, a Union Pacific freight train.
Between these two pictures:
OK, that was tongue-in-cheek, but it seems well out of the ordinary for Amtrak to praise UP.
Chris
On the front is a picture of a CC train, as well as a picture of Amtrak schedule planners' eternal and mortal enemy, a Union Pacific freight train.
Between these two pictures:
It would make sense to me if it wereCAPITOL CORRIDOR AND UNION PACIFIC - PARTNERING FOR A GREENER WAY TO TRAVEL
as SCRRA and BNSF actually treat Amtrak nicely, but as printed, it seems strange to me, as (based on quick back-of-the-napkin calculations) a Capitol Corridor or other Amtrak train, idling on a siding waiting for a mile-long UP freight train to pass, gets approximately 0 passenger-miles per gallon and emits approximately an infinite amount of air pollution per passenger-mile.PACIFIC SURFLINER (partially), SCRRA, and BNSF - PARTNERING ...
OK, that was tongue-in-cheek, but it seems well out of the ordinary for Amtrak to praise UP.
Chris