Ah, passenger trains. That's even a sadder story in the US. There are
freight trains running several times/day just a few miles from my house.
But to catch a passenger train (to anywhere) I would have to travel
about 75 miles to Syracuse, New York.
You can see a route map of the entire US passenger train network here
<http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Amtrak%2Fam2Copy%2FTitle_Image_Copy_Page&c=am2Copy&cid=1093554048998>
Click on the text "Launch Route Atlas". Sadly, the routes are so few
and so sparse that you will not need a magnify function to see all
possible routes in the entire country.
Chuck Norcutt
Chris Barker wrote:
> A great shame, Chuck. The same could be said of our railway system.
> The Beeching cuts of branch lines in the 1960s are surely regretted
> today. The railways went everywhere and would take a great load off
> the roads now if they were still usable.
>
> Chris
>
> On 21 Jul 2007, at 11:06, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> Delightful. I can't help but think it's such a shame that most of the
>> US canals were torn up long ago.
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