Amtrak is a pleasant, quaint but expensive thing that is heavily subsidized today.
A trip from my hometown to DC costs roughly the same on Amtrak or by air. But the train takes as long as taking a bus! Why would anyone take the train?
60 posted on 07/22/2014 1:47:06 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)