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    Ticketing System Outage

    Attempt to pay cash or sometimes the conducter will let you slide for a short trip......I say lets make April 17 a free day.
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    Detroit to Port Huron MI and back

    Where would I change trains and how long of a layover would it be? I also dont think Greyhound goes out to PH anymore.
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    High Speed Rail is a white elephant just like the Monorail

    THE FACT IS THIS----- The collective memory of this Simpson's Monorail Cartoon is all that we have or will know about high speed rail...Because of this stupid cartoon that many remember that was played on FOX....This is why many are skeptical of high speed rail
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    High Speed Rail is a white elephant just like the Monorail

    You got a A for entertainment value--- I would love to see that paper today...matter of fact many people believe that the "Underground Railroad" was actualy underground and had "stations' in people basements who were abolitinests
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    Hey I ride Greyhound too!!!

    The best bus ride I had was on a local Peter Pan that ran on local roads from Springfeild Mass to Albany in the Fall. There was like 5 people on the bus and the driver told me storys about where the old motels where the Boston Mob would hang out. The Berksires were buitifull and we stopped for...
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    Supreme Court Rules that railroads must provide passenger service

    How much out of the Billion or so Amtrak gets every year go to Penions for RR employees?
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    Supreme Court Rules that railroads must provide passenger service

    The issue today is diffrent but the case law remains the same.Freight railroads are "common carreirs" of both freight and passengers. This does not mean that they have to do it for nothing or at a loss. The problem is when a state or communter agency offers to pay the railroad for trackage...
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    Delta Queen may run again

    http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11099/1138215-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml I was planning a Amtrak-Queen trip but then they stopped running in 2005...They did have the ridership though
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    Longest Commuter Rail Trip?

    Has to be the South Shore South Bend to Chicago--- It was like 3 hours on the local at 80 miles.
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    Supreme Court Rules that railroads must provide passenger service

    http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov/c/US/470/470.US.451.83-1633.83-1492.html and this Supreme Court case said-- (b) The Basic Agreements do not grant the railroads a contractual right against the United States to be free from all obligation to provide passenger service. Those Agreements are...
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    Why is there no good Light Rail to Subway connection in BAL?

    It is done in Boston with a elevator and long underground walkway between (red line heavy rail) and green line(light rail)
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    Where is LARP?

    I Cant find there website and yes I have googled everywhere.
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    Inconvenience Voucher Policy

    Got a Hotel Voucher for a late Lake Shore 10 years ago in Chicago...Dont think they do those anymore
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    Commuter Service on the FEC?

    I Thought that this was a go? http://floridatransportationtoday.typepad.com/florida-transportation-ne/2011/04/first-coast-commuter-rail-plods-along-rfp-expected-this-summer.html
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    High Speed Rail is a white elephant just like the Monorail

    And the Cato Institution agrees with me http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/hsr-joe-biden-channels-the-simpsons/
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    High Speed Rail is a white elephant just like the Monorail

    Watch this--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEZjzsnPhnw Marge Just like the Governers of Ohio and Wisconsin says that the streets are falling apart....The Musicman just like Lahood says that the monorail will put them on the map and if they dont build it here in Springfeild somebody else will...
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    Have we forgot that railroads are public highways?

    But they had " Charters" granted to them by the state Charters give private people to do things that normaly is job of goveerment
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    Why is there no good Light Rail to Subway connection in BAL?

    No because were else but in Baltimore can I get fried oysters,Fry's and a 40 ounce of Hurricane Malt Liquor for 5.00.....
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    Have we forgot that railroads are public highways?

    Passenger Trains and people have the same right of access to the railroads just like a public highway. If you want to run your own train the railroad must ccharge you a reasonble rate or goto the STB
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    Have we forgot that railroads are public highways?

    Amtrak and other passengers have the right of access to "freight railroads" just like they do they highways under the common carreir doctrine...Its judt geting the STB to enforce it
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