Re: I'm really starting to like this stuff

Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-04-27 7:52 p.m., Jill McQuown wrote:

On 4/27/2025 5:59 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

I shouldn't complain. Passenger train service in Canada sucks and
tends to run late. One time we took the train from Calgary to
Vancouver. The train was about an hour late leaving Calgary and
arrived in Vancouver a few hours late. Unlike the excellent food
on  the European trains, the food on that trip sucked big time. 
When our  son lived in Montreal he used to come to visit by
train. I had to  drive into the city to pick him up and the train
was invariably an  hour late.

 
There aren't any passenger trains where I live.  There used to be
trains  to Beaufort, SC.  Used to be passenger trains to/from
Memphis, TN, too  but I'm not sure they went to any destinations
I'd like to go and  probably not quickly or without frequent
whistle stops in the middle of  nowhere.

 
It's a shame that we don't have a better passenger rail system in
North America.  In Europe you can go from just about any town to any
other town and very efficiently.   Passenger rail travel in Canada
sucks. There are passenger trains along the main corridors like
Windsor to Toronto to Montreal and across to the west through
Winnipeg to Regina, Calgary or Edmonton to Vancouver. It's a pretty
boring ride across northern Ontario and the prairies, but the routes
through the Rockies to Vancouver have amazing scenery.

I wish we had better too.  We did once have the beginnings of one but
it sort of died out.  We still do for shipping though.

I think we used them for a lot of troop movements, perhaps as late as
WWII??  My Mom and I used one abour 1974 to get from SC to NY to pickup
a car she inherited.  It was ok enough but it was a good thing Mom
packed food as there wasn't any, unlike her last trip 30 years earlier.

Cargo trains are alive and well.  Norfolk area is a huge port for
inbound and outbound products to/from USA.