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By: kinyahbrutha

kinyahbrutha — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:09:45 +0000

i know that i’ll sound like a broken record, but the rails are another example of your government subsidies at work.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:29:21 +0000

Hmm…last time I had to take a “short” flight to DC I sat in the airport for 6 hours before my flight took off (boarded and deplaned twice). Including travel time to and from airports and horrible stress of waiting in huge lines of angry folks, and having to pack things in ridiculous little tubes, I gladly would have traded for a nice train ride. Do trains get weather delays like planes?

By: Kin-Shay

Kin-Shay — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:07:39 +0000

Kin-wife had this quandary going to NYC for the day last Sundee. The train cost about the same, but factor in the $40 cab ride to and fro Queens to Manhattan, plus the extra time spent checking in both ways for the plane, it worked out to her advantage to take a more relaxing, roomy train. The math dictates the further away you go, the less the the worthiness of the train. You are far enough away to warrant a plane, specially since someone would pick your ass up at logan.

Also - Da kine and miracleed (lyrically) are on the east coast. My heart swims in the brotherhood.

Also also, I am thinking Sushi bowl next Sundee…

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:59:00 +0000

A) Is Da Kine on the mainland these days?

2) This is the catch-22 of AmTrak: Nobody does rail travel because it’s too expensive for what you get (slower travel) / It’s expensive because nobody does it.

III) From what I hear, American rail travel isn’t exactly the Orient Express. Unless maybe you chip in even more for extra room, privacy, etc.