Amen, brother!
sjl
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, SilvrDome@a... wrote:
> As appealing as the American highway system is to some, I must tell
you right
> up to the day it was discontinued in 1979 the Amtrak "Lone Star"
(former
> Santa Fe Texas Chief) was packing the passengers in. The Conductor
and Chair Car
> attendant worked between every stop finding scarce seats for
passengers
> boarding at Kansas City, Lawrence, Topeka, Wichita, etc. thru the
night for folks
> bound for Oklahoma City, Norman, Gainesville, Ft. Worth and on to
Houston. That
> train was very popular, even under Amtrak to the very end and
should have
> never been discontinued. It along with the North Coast Hiawatha,
National
> Limited, and Floridian were discontinued during the Carter
Administration.
>
> Hubert
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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