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From: rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Re: New York-Washington Executive Sleeper
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Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 15:09:38 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 16 15:09:38 1986
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    	I'm  a Midwesterner (Bowling Green,  Ohio) who  envies all you
    lucky folks  on the East  Coast because you still have   decent  train
    service.  Trains flourished here when  I was a boy in  the late 1940's
    and early 1950's, but  nowadays we have  to go by  car, bus, or plane.
    There are practically no trains.

Sorry to disappoint you, but that's true here as well.  I live in Boston,
and the express service to New York City was discontinued several years
ago.  You can't get a train to Montreal, and even the local service to
places like Worcester and Framingham either doesn't run at all or only
runs once a day at inconvenient times.

I love trains, but it's US government policy that you *will* buy a car,
and you *will* drive it everywhere, or else you just won't go.

Not to open a big debate on this issue, but am I the only one who resents
this tyranny of the majority?