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> -- from DC, that is.
>
>
> There are still far too few trains stopping at the newly restored
> Richmond Main Street station (downtown), which was shut for nearly 30
> years, but you can catch a southbound at 7:30 am (arriving 10:12 a.m.)
> and catch a northbound back to DC at 5:30 p.m. It enables you to
> spend the day visiting the Museum of the Confederacy, the American
> Civil War Center, and the restored state capitol. They can be done
> with the help of the city bus system! All can be down comfortably in
> that time span.
>
> You can just say no to the pollution machines that the sheeple insist
> on driving. Go to Richmond by train and enjoy the sights on foot or
> by bus.
Not that I don't enjoy railroads and railroad travel.
And my father, his father, and then his father worked on the RF&P.
And that I have many times enjoyed riding in a locomotive on the RF&P from
Richmond to Pot Yard (back in the days before lawyers, where the small sons
of railroad men could do such things with their Dads).
But.
The fact that a handful of regional Amtrak trains make TWO stops in Richmond
(city population 190,000) is one of the reasons Amtrak loses money - too
much political influence.
I calculated the cost/loses on the Richmond<>Newport News Amtrak line last
year. As I recalled, we would be better off to buy each rider a new Buick
for the trip to Richmond's Staples Mill Rd station and just stop the trains
here.
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