On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 16:10:12 -0500, John wrote:

On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 11:15:50 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 08:11:15 -0500, John wrote:

On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 18:00:07 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:25:55 -0500 (EST), justan wrote:

John Wrote in message:r
On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:18:43 -0500 (EST), justan wrote:Keyser Söze Wrote in message:r https://ibb.co/nLVG10WWith trains, you don't have to deal with airports or long rides to and from the airport to your eventual destination. With trains, you usually don't have to deal with long
lines. With trains, you don't have to deal with crappy seats, even the crappy seats in first class. With trains, you don't have to contort yourself to pee standing up in the rest room. With trains, if the engine fails, the train simply comes to a stop.-- * Lock up Trump and his family of grifters. *Enjoy your choo choo trains
dummy. You don't sound right. Have you had your head examined lately?He forgets to mention it takes 3-4 days to get to the west coast versus. fivehours.--Freedom Isn't Free!

He thinks he can go anywherre in 2 hours on the Acela. Fat Harry
is out of his mind, I tell ya.

It's not a bad ride if you are going to New York. That is one of the
few trains that make some sense. Part of that is simply because
LaGuardia (Italian for "an hour or two late") sucks so badly. If you
left the North Beltway station at the same time a plane took off from
DCA, you would be eating a hot dog on 7th avenue looking up at that
plane still circling waiting for a slot to land.

Been there, done that. You're right. A four-hour train trip is much nicer than a
four-hour flight.

It has been 40 years but I seem to remember it was about 2 1/5 hours
from the beltway station to NY on the Metroliner (Acela).

We weren't on the Acela.

Yeah I screwed up and got on the milk train once. I felt lucky we
weren't getting coal cinders in our hair and arrows in our ass. That
was a Butch and Sundance railroad ride.

New York, NY–Penn Sta.
Newark, NJ–Penn Sta.
Metropark, NJ
New Brunswick, NJ
Princeton Junction, NJ
Trenton, NJ
Philadelphia, PA
Gray 30th St. Sta.
Wilmington, DE
Baltimore, MD–Penn Sta.
BWI Marshall Airport, MD
New Carrollton, MD
Washington, DC–Union Sta

It is the same train Harry raves about to go to Florida on tho. (the
Silver Meteor)
It is probably the same rolling stock I rode home from St Pete on in
1955.

On 3/13/21 4:39 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 16:10:12 -0500, John wrote:

On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 11:15:50 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 08:11:15 -0500, John wrote:

On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 18:00:07 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:25:55 -0500 (EST), justan wrote:

John Wrote in message:r
On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:18:43 -0500 (EST), justan wrote:Keyser Söze Wrote in message:r https://ibb.co/nLVG10WWith trains, you don't have to deal with airports or long rides to and from the airport to your eventual destination. With trains, you usually don't have to deal with long
lines. With trains, you don't have to deal with crappy seats, even the crappy seats in first class. With trains, you don't have to contort yourself to pee standing up in the rest room. With trains, if the engine fails, the train simply comes to a stop.-- * Lock up Trump and his family of grifters. *Enjoy your choo choo trains
dummy. You don't sound right. Have you had your head examined lately?He forgets to mention it takes 3-4 days to get to the west coast versus. fivehours.--Freedom Isn't Free!

He thinks he can go anywherre in 2 hours on the Acela. Fat Harry
is out of his mind, I tell ya.

It's not a bad ride if you are going to New York. That is one of the
few trains that make some sense. Part of that is simply because
LaGuardia (Italian for "an hour or two late") sucks so badly. If you
left the North Beltway station at the same time a plane took off from
DCA, you would be eating a hot dog on 7th avenue looking up at that
plane still circling waiting for a slot to land.

Been there, done that. You're right. A four-hour train trip is much nicer than a
four-hour flight.

It has been 40 years but I seem to remember it was about 2 1/5 hours
from the beltway station to NY on the Metroliner (Acela).

We weren't on the Acela.

Yeah I screwed up and got on the milk train once. I felt lucky we
weren't getting coal cinders in our hair and arrows in our ass. That
was a Butch and Sundance railroad ride.

New York, NY–Penn Sta.
Newark, NJ–Penn Sta.
Metropark, NJ
New Brunswick, NJ
Princeton Junction, NJ
Trenton, NJ
Philadelphia, PA
Gray 30th St. Sta.
Wilmington, DE
Baltimore, MD–Penn Sta.
BWI Marshall Airport, MD
New Carrollton, MD
Washington, DC–Union Sta

It is the same train Harry raves about to go to Florida on tho. (the
Silver Meteor)
It is probably the same rolling stock I rode home from St Pete on in
1955.



Thanks to my father in law's railway discount, we got a sleeper both
ways, with bunk beds, a toilet and dinner and breakfast. I think the
trip took 13 hours and at night, when I wouldn't drive anyway. Only
annoying part was the train horn being blasted in advance of the
9,000,000 unguarded crossings. I finally resorted to earplugs and my
shooting earmuffs.

--
* Lock up Trump and his family of grifters. *