wayman
Engineer
Of course, the Bidens are not selling the home they designed outside of Wilmington, and despite moving to the Naval Observatory I'm sure they'll take what free weekends they can to return to it. Whether they'll get to take Amtrak for old time's sake or be forced by the Secret Service to travel by motorcade, I don't know. The NEC is a fairly protected right-of-way with no grade crossings, and it would be easy to secure a private rail car (not necessarily an actual luxury private car, but perhaps just a spare Amfleet from WAS) if the partial seclusion of Acela First Class isn't sufficient for them and a few agents.But friends and colleagues said that in all the decades Mr. Biden worked in Washington, he never had much of a social life there. He rarely stuck around for an evening fund-raiser or a cocktail party.
“I think he was far more interested in his children than the social whirl,” said Senator Patrick J. Leahy, a longtime Biden friend. “I have to kid him a little bit, because he’s no longer going to be asking, ‘Are we going to finish this vote by 7:45?’ so he can make this mad dash to the train.”
Officials at Amtrak, however, were less enthusiastic about losing their high-profile customer.
“We will miss having Senator Biden as a regular passenger,” said Karina Romero, an Amtrak spokeswoman.
Here's the full article: link. My big question: why is this in the "fashion" section of the newspaper? :blink: