by nyswfan
I am surprised that this isnt more popular. Travel by train at night, taking in America's greatest cities by day. Seems like this would work. New York/Pittsburgh/Chicago/Denver/Salt Lake/ Reno Tahoe/San Francisco.
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kitn1mcc wrote:yes but some of like the city at night even moreif it takes 8-10 hours in between cities you can depart one city at 12:00AM and arrive by 10:00AM for example, allowing people to take in city nightlife. Scheduleing could be worked out....
Gilbert B Norman wrote: The model you have proposed is that of a cruise ship; they of course want their passengers back on board by sundown account potential liability issues (anyone knows trouble is more likely to come a callin' when the sun goes down) and they want to sell the high margin drinks rather let someone else do so.Having been aboard a few cruise ships, its nice to visit a few ports in a few different countries in a realatively short amount of time. (1-2 weeks). You get a wide variety of destination and activities all while your hotel moves with you. Cruise ship are extremely popular, so i would think the model would/could work if it was run properly. Amtrak runs this "Amtrak Vacations"
However, Amtrak as a tax supported government agency that had best not consider any operation like that; must say I'm surprised to have this proposal come from a fellow who is active over at the mass transit forums, such as NJTransit.
Rbts Stn wrote:1)It would be interesting to see how many people use the rail pass(essentially what you propose above.)
Travel from spot A to spot B on your first overnight, get out and store your bags at the handy dandy location in the station. Enjoy the city at your leisure for 12 hours, get on the next train leaving that station.
Travel from spot B to spot C on your next overnight, get out and store your bags at the handy dandy location in the station. Enjoy the city at your leisure for 12 hours, get on the next train leaving that station.
Rinse, repeat.
Meanwhile, that second train that you pickup at night has the nightcrawler version of you getting off in the evening, enjoying the city overnight, and getting onboard the next AM to sleep until the next stop.
2)??
3) Profit!
isaksenj wrote:Iowa Pacific will be rolling out "Pullman" service on the Lakeshore and City of New Orleans later this year:
http://www.travelpullman.com/
ApproachMedium wrote:When do they plan on telling amtrak about this? I would love to see who what and where will these cars be serviced at and by. Its not like Sunnyside has a spare track you can just go plop 4 or 5 pullman cars on to give them 1920s style service.I suspect the business agreement between Iowa Pacific and Amtrak has already been negotiated at a higher corporate level, but the details have not yet trickled down to the working level (the people who will actually execute the plans) at Amtrak.