Posted on 04/14/2010 7:52:00 AM PDT by Willie Green
What's to complain about here?
If investors want to try and exploit what they see as a profitable market, then I'm all in favor. If this were a government-subsidised excursion train -- I wouldn't be.
I'd love to see rail travel improve in the US. I just want it to be done with private money. I hope they do well. It's a concept (party train) that might work in other places.
I had the pleasure several years ago of trying to get back to the coast by traveling the interstate between vegas and LA on a Sunday. It was worse than your standard rush hour traffic! Stop and go from Vegas to Barstow (where I got off to head towards Bakersfield). If there is that much traffic between the two locations - a train would be my way of travel -less stress and ready for action.
...and, as happened on a friend's bachelor night trip to Vegas, the bus can stop in Barstow for an extra keg of beer when the first one runs out...:^)
Yeah but you would be stuned by the time you get there
Willie, cam you tell us what the gamblers special was, and why it no longer runs? Hmmmm?
Google tells me that Gamblers Special was a cheap, DC-3 charter flight carrying passengers from Burbank to casinos in Hawthorne NV and back. It crashed and burned on February 18, 1969 with no survivors.
I never heard of it before, but it sounds like another good reason to stay on the ground and take the train instead. Train travel is much safer than airline travel, that's for sure...
Thanks for the info!
To bad you don't know much about Southern California and its history.
There's not much to know...
A bunch of burned-out surfers and migrant stoop laborers looking for free handouts from Hollyweird...
Definitely not my kind of place.
That wasn't the gambler's special I was talking about, but obviously you don't know much about trains, either.Hey... don't blame ME for your obscure references...
Reid’s Gambling Train
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/02/12/reids-gambling-train
True, but Reid is planning his own Casino Train at taxpayer expense. Fortunately, he’ll be out of office and the USA will be out of money before that can happen.
This is a good start—How about using Steam Engines? We can get some ceap from China or restore what we have. The Monorail conects to the Vegas Downtown so the whole strip would be open—put in some discounts and this could help bring business to Las Vegas. Then, lets do the same from San Francisco to Reno.
I prefer to “drive” than take a train..
Yea but you’re not drnking and gambling as you drive, right?
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