Lake Austin RR Wrote:
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> What a brutal god&amn train BART is. Friends and
> I, and a parent, rode the whole system when it was
> fairly new, and that was my impression of it even
> then compared to the passenger trains I had
> enjoyed on Amtrak and before...
>
> I commuted via Caltrain for three years and riding
> it was one of the best aspects of the job,
> especially enjoying a nice cold beer after work
> going home on the train.

My distinct memory from when BART was being built and first operating was the lengths their P.R. department went through to make sure everyone understood that BART was NOT a train. Whatever it was, it wasn't much fun. It did have a certain novelty value back then, now it's just drudgery (at least when it's not horror).