Re: The era of the dining car is almost over. Good, move on
Author: Rider on Trains 29 & 30
Date: 11-06-2018 - 19:55
J.K. Trowling Wrote:
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> Any logical traveler is not going to go by rail
> for anything over 500 miles. If you can't deal
> with that, it's time to set up a layout in your
> basement and run trains how you think they should
> be.
Don't know how you decided that 500 miles is the maximum distance a "logical" traveler will travel.
That said, consider Amtrak's Capitol Limited which operates over a 780-mile route between Washington, DC and Chicago. As I live in Pittsburgh, all of my trips between Pittsburgh and Chicago and Pittsburgh and Washington DC are under your magic 500-mile threshold. So in your model of train service, does a Pittsburgh traveler get two separate trains or do you only look at the entire 780-mile route and decide it's not worth running at all?