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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

no_hypocrisy

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1. When I attended Sweet Briar College 40 years ago, there was just one train that left Lynchburg

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Jun 13, 2016, 03:38 PM

Jun 2016

(Southern Crescent) one time a day. You had to wait in the cold and dark at 4:00 in the morning at Madison Heights and 10 hours later, you descended in Newark Penn Station. And you had to switch trains at Union Station in D.C.

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Virginia: Lynchburg Amtrak passengers to get more rail service next year [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2016 OP

When I attended Sweet Briar College 40 years ago, there was just one train that left Lynchburg no_hypocrisy Jun 2016 #1

The Crescent didn't have through coaches to destinations north of Washington? mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2016 #2

No, the Crescent stopped at DC. You had to take Amtrak up the Northern Corridor. no_hypocrisy Jun 2016 #3

Oops. Brain freeze. I forgot that Southern stayed out of Amtrak until mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2016 #4