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Dave Smith wrote:

> On 2025-04-27 7:52 p.m., Jill McQuown wrote:
> > On 4/27/2025 5:59 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> > > I shouldn't complain. Passenger train service in Canada sucks and
> > > tends to run late. One time we took the train from Calgary to
> > > Vancouver. The train was about an hour late leaving Calgary and
> > > arrived in Vancouver a few hours late. Unlike the excellent food
> > > on  the European trains, the food on that trip sucked big time. 
> > > When our  son lived in Montreal he used to come to visit by
> > > train. I had to  drive into the city to pick him up and the train
> > > was invariably an  hour late.
> > 
> > There aren't any passenger trains where I live.  There used to be
> > trains  to Beaufort, SC.  Used to be passenger trains to/from
> > Memphis, TN, too  but I'm not sure they went to any destinations
> > I'd like to go and  probably not quickly or without frequent
> > whistle stops in the middle of  nowhere.
> 
> It's a shame that we don't have a better passenger rail system in
> North America.  In Europe you can go from just about any town to any
> other town and very efficiently.   Passenger rail travel in Canada
> sucks. There are passenger trains along the main corridors like
> Windsor to Toronto to Montreal and across to the west through
> Winnipeg to Regina, Calgary or Edmonton to Vancouver. It's a pretty
> boring ride across northern Ontario and the prairies, but the routes
> through the Rockies to Vancouver have amazing scenery.

I wish we had better too.  We did once have the beginnings of one but
it sort of died out.  We still do for shipping though.

I think we used them for a lot of troop movements, perhaps as late as
WWII??  My Mom and I used one abour 1974 to get from SC to NY to pickup
a car she inherited.  It was ok enough but it was a good thing Mom
packed food as there wasn't any, unlike her last trip 30 years earlier.

Cargo trains are alive and well.  Norfolk area is a huge port for
inbound and outbound products to/from USA.