[indthkr]

"If there was a passenger train that carried cars I might find it useful."

Amtrak has an Autotrain that runs from Washington D.C. suburbs down to the Orlando FL area non-stop. It leaves at ~4pm and gets there in the morning sometime.

I've never ridden on it.

[fallujah-nuker]

"Amtrak has an Autotrain that runs from Washington D.C. suburbs down to the Orlando FL area non-stop. It leaves at ~4pm and gets there in the morning sometime."

I googled "autotrain" and found that it was a private company until 1980. Something like that would sound more useful to me, transporting people with their cars like an extension of the highway system, rather than moving people from downtown to downtown of major cities. It seems to me like Amtrak is trying to impose a 19th century travel model upon the 21st century.