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...railroad has petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to retire the train, and meanwhile is trying to persuade the Amtrak system to assume its operation. That of course could mean substitution of all-coach subway cars and sandwich bars for first-class sleeping cars and gently swaying restaurants-per ardua ad Amtrak...
...VACATION approaches once again, the prospect of traveling home via Amtrak looms large for many students from the Northeast Corridor. The federally-sponsored and seemingly always-bankrupt railroad has a unique sort of charm. If you like crowded, eternally late trains and continually climbing ticket prices, you'll love Amtrak. Every experienced Amtrak rider has had several brushes with destiny during the long rides to school and back. the railroad comes complete with a stock of weirdos, winos, and generally pitiful people, all of whom seem hellbent on telling you their life stories or annoying you as much as possible...
Several months later. I embarked on the most tortuous Amtrak adventure possible--a ten-hour ride to Utica, N.Y., to visit a friend at a nearby college. If you figure that the distance from Boston to Utica is about 300 miles, and that the train ride is ten hours (as opposed to five by car), it's easy to deduce that you're trucking along at the estimable rate of 30 m.p.h. Any way you cut it, the company you choose will probably begin to wear a little thin...
...Yale, the Elis boarded an Amtrak on Saturday morning, along with Penn, which had arrived in New Haven the night before. "If they were going to hold the meet," claimed Yale coach Eve Atkinson, "then we were going to be there. If other people could make it, then so could...
...make matters worse, I spent two hours digging out my Royal portable from a snow drift in my living room yesterday, then risked a $500 fine by driving pell-mell to South Station to catch the 6 o'clock Amtrak...