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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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    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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    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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    Where is LARP?

    I Cant find there website and yes I have googled everywhere.
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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

    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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    NYC William Henry Vanderbilt on High Speed Rail in 1882

    From %20pay?”%20Dresser%20asked."]Link Does your limited express [between New York and Chicago] pay?" Dresser asked. "No, not a bit of it. We only run it because we are forced to do so by the action of the Pennsylvania Road. It doesn't pay expenses. We would abandon it if it was not for our...
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    Have we forgot that railroads are public highways?

    http://books.google.com/books?id=sEkLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA588&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U272SC1kh53Ju9yazEFuTw4wHtgCQ&ci=123%2C259%2C397%2C512&edge=0 and http://books.google.com/books?id=Ryo8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA746&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U1CGkjfdHr4yXhyTNbw8ltNMzcApQ&ci=545%2C618%2C423%2C940&edge=0...
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    High Speed Freight Trains?

    Did I not recall that there were Sante Fe Trains and all mail trains that traveled under conventional power at 100 MPH on Section rail in the 1920s?
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    CSX Mike Ward Vs Matt Rose and now pro passenger convert Wick Moorman

    http://www.bloomberg...-rail-plan.html "I'm a corporation. I exist to make money, OK? You can't make money hauling passengers, so why would I want to do that? That wouldn't be fair to my shareholders." VS. Norfolk Southern CEO Wick Moorman, while raising a concern about profitability and...
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    Day Rates for Hotel layovers on Amtrak

    I used to be able to get a day rate of 50.00 at the Mayflower Hotel across from Penn Station....This was intened for railroad people to do layovers and get showers and whatnot. I found it better then siting in the basement of Penn Station for 12 hours waiting for a train and I did have to drag...
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    Why is there no good Light Rail to Subway connection in BAL?

    Why unlike Newark and other places is there no Subway to Light Rail Connection in Baltimore....Unless you know better you end up walking quit a few blocks to make the transfer...having a duel heavy rail and Light rail system also seems to be a waste as well since you have to have 2 separate...
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    How well do the showers work or dont work in sleepers?

    and like many people I enjoy a hot shower but---How well does the sleeper vent out the Humidity?
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    AMTK-Excutive Sleeper? and Sleeper car set off service

    The practice of setting off Pullman cars at late hours of the night at key locations was practiced by the the Erie in Bingahamton NY and Erie PA. A number of stations had there own mini steam powerplants( there was one in Binghamton on the EL) that kept Sleepers warm when they were dropped off...
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    The National Limited used the now Abandoned Pan Handle Line west of PG

    That I was why heard that that route was cut out.
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    New Amtrak Single Leval Cars

    http://www.highspeed-rail.org/Documents/Single%20Level%20Section%2021%20Drawings.pdf My first critic------- Is that the club car chairs are not very comfortible....I spend 90% of my trip in the club car....It would seem that I would have to do what I do when I ride Metra or Northstar and that...
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    How to you get the hotel to Pick you up at the Train Station

    I travel to places that have airport shuttle service....sometime the train station is either near the airport or right along the way...yet they wont pick me up...what hotel chains in what citys are good for taking people to and from that train station? In Buffalo and other citys that have Amtrak...
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    Abandoned Turbo Train

    http://www.davehonan.com/turbo/rtg.html How did Amtrak sell this? Who let this go? Something is not kosher here...Where is the Amtrak Inspector General? http://spectator.org/blog/2009/07/17/amtrak-ig-important-background --- Oh thats what happened...
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    Cincy Owns a Railroad

    The city owns a line from Cincy OH to Chattanoga TN...But no passengers please as per NS requests... Hey if we own it we should be able to ride it. The city collects 19 Million Dollers in rent a year enough to subsidize a amtrak train and a commuter train.
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    Commuter Trains will cause sprawl in Nj Highlands

    Elliott Ruga to me show details 12:41 AM (7 hours ago) ...We vigorously support initiatives that reduce automobile trips, rail being an excellent alternative for many reasons. The Lackawanna Cut-Off project, however, as designed, would not reduce the volume of automobiles on I-80 and other...
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