Wow...there was some "serious" padding between Dallas and Houston on that schedule....I doubt they would have attracted much local traffic with those running times...
Really? It looks like it took about seven and a half hours to get from Dallas to Houston. Is that not a reasonably running time? (I'm not familiar with Texas geography)Wow...there was some "serious" padding between Dallas and Houston on that schedule....I doubt they would have attracted much local traffic with those running times...
Well over double the driving time, FWIW. You can drive and get there by lunch, or take the train and get there by dinner...Really? It looks like it took about seven and a half hours to get from Dallas to Houston. Is that not a reasonably running time? (I'm not familiar with Texas geography)Wow...there was some "serious" padding between Dallas and Houston on that schedule....I doubt they would have attracted much local traffic with those running times...
Unless there's a traffic jam, accident, or construction related slowdown, Texans will drive around 80MPH on interstates between major cities. That can make it hard for Amtrak to compete across long distances.Well over double the driving time, FWIW. You can drive and get there by lunch, or take the train and get there by dinner...AinamkartmaReally? It looks like it took about seven and a half hours to get from Dallas to Houston. Is that not a reasonably running time? (I'm not familiar with Texas geography)Wow...there was some "serious" padding between Dallas and Houston on that schedule....I doubt they would have attracted much local traffic with those running times...
That isn’t just Texas...Unless there's a traffic jam, accident, or construction related slowdown, Texans will drive around 80MPH on interstates between major cities. That can make it hard for Amtrak to compete across long distances.Well over double the driving time, FWIW. You can drive and get there by lunch, or take the train and get there by dinner...AinamkartmaReally? It looks like it took about seven and a half hours to get from Dallas to Houston. Is that not a reasonably running time? (I'm not familiar with Texas geography)Wow...there was some "serious" padding between Dallas and Houston on that schedule....I doubt they would have attracted much local traffic with those running times...
Well that's pretty common for Amtrak. The Coast Starlight takes almost twelve hours to get from Los Angeles to the Bay Area, whereas you can drive that distance in less than six hours. Doesn't seem too odd to me.Well over double the driving time, FWIW. You can drive and get there by lunch, or take the train and get there by dinner...Really? It looks like it took about seven and a half hours to get from Dallas to Houston. Is that not a reasonably running time? (I'm not familiar with Texas geography)Wow...there was some "serious" padding between Dallas and Houston on that schedule....I doubt they would have attracted much local traffic with those running times...
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That's especially impressive when you look at how many stops those made between Dallas and Houston. 26 intermediate stops on that first one and 23 intermediate stops on the second one.Actually, to be 'fair', I was comparing it to this http://www.streamlinerschedules.com/concourse/track9/sunbeam195008.html
and to this http://www.streamlinerschedules.com/concourse/track9/samhouzeph195008.html
the latter in as little as 4 hours flat, just from Dallas to Houston....
Three-quarters of a century ago, the running time between downtown Dallas and downtown Houston was four hours. You even had your choice of three railroads on two completely separate routes.Really? It looks like it took about seven and a half hours to get from Dallas to Houston. Is that not a reasonably running time? (I'm not familiar with Texas geography)Wow...there was some "serious" padding between Dallas and Houston on that schedule....I doubt they would have attracted much local traffic with those running times...
Sorry it took me so long to reply. I didn’t know of the constraints at Boston, so I will change it in an update soon.
That is pretty much what I meant, except it would enter Canada in Windsor and Niagra Falls, as that would allow the train to tap into the Ann Arbor and Detroit markets. I would also advocate for a third long-distance service that's Chicago-Boston directly, so as to not split the cars in Albany but keep service. The LSL would run Chicago-NYC, as that is where the majority of the riders go anyway.
Might as well make it a Chicago-SAS train and kinda sorta bring back the lone star.
I really like the idea of keeping the current CHI-STL-DAL-FTW-SAS Texas Eagle and then adding a completely separate CHI-KCY-OKC-FTW-HOS Lone Star (or Texas Chief!) with a reconnect between them scheduled in FTW both ways.
Why not just have a CHI-KCY-OKS-FTW train with through service to the Eagle?
Because I think that the fourth largest city in the nation should have more than a single east-west passenger train which runs only three days a week. The market is there...hey, Santa Fe was willing to keep operating it on their own hook if only they could have shed some of their excess baggage elsewhere...the tracks are still good, and the region is crying for more and better service.
Pretty good name/route matches....except for the Chicago-Davenport-Cedar Rapids one....maybe more appropriate to call it, "Hawkeye Rocket" or something like that?
How 'bout something along the lines of "the Iowan" or "Iowa Zephyr"?Pretty good name/route matches....except for the Chicago-Davenport-Cedar Rapids one....maybe more appropriate to call it, "Hawkeye Rocket" or something like that?
How 'bout something along the lines of "the Iowan" or "Iowa Zephyr"?Pretty good name/route matches....except for the Chicago-Davenport-Cedar Rapids one....maybe more appropriate to call it, "Hawkeye Rocket" or something like that?
Pretty good name/route matches....except for the Chicago-Davenport-Cedar Rapids one....maybe more appropriate to call it, "Hawkeye Rocket" or something like that?
