Comment by bitmasher9
2 days ago
For me the whole point of flying is fast travel. Private even more so, because it operates on your schedule.
A Amtrak train is slower than driving.
2 days ago
For me the whole point of flying is fast travel. Private even more so, because it operates on your schedule.
A Amtrak train is slower than driving.
It depends. I take the Amtrack from Albany to Chicago once a year or so because I hate flying. It's maybe an hour or two slower than driving and that's with a lot of time built in to the schedule for delays. The last time I took it We left Albany 45 minutes late and still made it on time to Chicago. Yes, delays happen, just like in traffic or at the air port, but I find the focus on delays when Amtrak comes up extremely over-stated. Perhaps it's just the routes I'm on.
Wow you take the train once a year, certainly there's nobody more qualified than you to speak about them!
If you have all the money in the world, why would you need to go fast? Just enjoy the ride in comfort and style.
Private rail car is nowhere near as comfortable as actually getting home quickly, especially you have the kind of home that people with all the money in the world do.
Many people with money travel so much home is a hotel. They 'have a large manson that the staff says is nice' isn't quite the truth but it isn't far off.
though they also don't have time to take a slow train.
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FWIW I am away from home ~300 days a year for work and I have the choice of any mode of transport.
I prefer train any time.
And for some, the journey is the destination.
For the people that own these cars, it’s about the journey, not the destination.
It depends on the route and the distance.
For example, Portland to Seattle isn't that far but I-5 can easily back up and become an hours-long ordeal, and SEA and PDX aren't particularly close to a lot of places.
Traffic jams have become so much easier to handle with lane following and down-to-zero adaptive cruise control.
A backlog of hundreds of hours of podcasts doesn’t hurt.
Still would prefer the train.