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...Biden? As somebody who has ridden the trains, gone to work on Amtrack back and forth, back and forth, that whole thing, he very well may be the first hobo member of our executive branch. (See pictures of Joe Biden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Hodgman | 10/21/2008 | See Source »

...Amtrack was clearly looking out for the late-January travelers with their release of the newer, sleeker and faster Acela train. Apparently it should have taken more than three hours to travel from New Haven, the location of that inferior bulldog-crazed psuedo-university, to Boston's South Station train station. But the ride was barely longer than two hours! The other Harvard students (who had also been sucked into that embarrassment of a college and pathetic excuse of a "town") on the Acela train rejoiced at the speed with which they were whisked away to less hostile territory...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: DARTBOARD: The Editors Take Aim at the Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 2/4/2000 | See Source »

Thammongkol said she had seen a sign on the bulletin board in front of the Science Center elevators advertising Amtrack tickets to D.C. and to New York with "no restrictions on time...

Author: By Scott Sheffield, | Title: HUPD Arrests Man In Science Center | 2/6/1993 | See Source »

...family just gave you a brand new little sports car for your birthday, and you're just dying to bring it up to school and zip around Boston. No more trips home on Amtrack, no more mad dashes for the last subway out of Park St. You're a free spirit now, a real independent individual...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: You Can't Pahk Yah Cah In Hahvahd Yahd, But... | 4/26/1978 | See Source »

Within five minutes the Southern Crescent nudges slowly into sight. As the twelve-car Amtrack train sidles into the station, a gravelly voice on the platform speaker rasps out, "Southern Crescent, Amtrack train for New York, arriving from Washington, D.C. and points south, on Track 5. All aboard." In a rush the passengers grab their suitcases, shopping bags, and knapsacks and board the train. The engine starts up again and steam floats up to the steel rafters of the station. After a minute in a cramped tunnel, the train emerges into the early Sunday morning sunshine...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: All Aboard for Boston | 4/19/1974 | See Source »

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