On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 11:28:19 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 3/13/21 11:15 AM, 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).


Just under three hours from Union Station in DC, so your memory is
correct. It's about seven hours to Boston. For reasons I don't know, it
takes longer to get from NYC to New Haven than it did 60 years ago.

Probably extra stops on the way or maybe more rail congestion.
As an aside, my old 3d shift partner and golfing buddy's brother was a
conductor on that train for about 25 years. He would get drunk and
call out every stop from Penn Station, well up into connecticut, until
someone told him to stop. We usually got to Bridgeport anyway. ;-)