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Originally Posted by Seahawk
AMTRAK price was good but the time to get from DC to Dayton was 14 hours! I'd still need to get a rental and drive another few hours. Not going to happen.
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I took an AMTRAK from Cincinnati to Burlington, VT. Had to go by way of DC!?! The train to DC was insanely slow, like 25 mph at times. Tracks run through the back side of every housing tract and industrial park in every town we rode through - the ugliest parts of town. It took 24 hours to get to Burlington. We stayed overnight in DC and boarded a train north in mid-morning. The travel up the seaboard, with all its congestion and stops was faster than the trip across nowhere the day before.
I don't think we can judge rail travel by what it
is, we need to think about what it could be.