by Gilbert B Norman
May it be presumed that the Class I hosts are agreeable to these fantasies?
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electricron wrote: . . . reinstate Amtrak's Lone Star, its renaming of the Texas Chief. Here's the route: Chicago to Galveston via Kansas City, Wichita, Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, and Houston.I like to see thinking outside the box.
. . . run a new rerouted daily Sunset Limited from New Orleans to Los Angeles via Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Abilene, Lubbock, Clovis, Albuquerque, Flagstaff, Barstow.
This takes four trains, Heartland Flyer, SW Chief, TX Eagle, and Sunset Limited and makes two. The new Lone Star runs on the eastern half of the existing SW Chief corridor, while rerouting of the Sunset Limited runs on the western half . . . eliminate the lowest population density running sections of both the Sunset and Southwest Chief.
Tom6921 wrote:At one time the Montrealer had thru sleepers to Florida. It would be nice to see that again. (I actually traveled in one of these back in the '70's during Spring Break)
Montrealer as an overnight train as it would be easier to connect to with VIA in Montreal and other Amtrak trains going south from NYP/Washington.