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- From: kolassa@genesee.bst.rochester.edu (John Kolassa)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: Amtrak's future under a Clinton administration
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.050914.14408@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 05:09:14 GMT
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- In article <7933@charon.cwi.nl>, dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
- [Response to (IMHO well justified) complaints about train delays while crossing
- the US-Canadian border.]
- > >
- > A possible solution would be for customs to go through the train while it
- > is travelling. This has been implemented in Europe for as long as I remember
- > (and I am over 40 years, I think the last cases where you had to get out of
- > the train or somesuch was in the late 50s). This was even true with the
- > paranoid customs on the (then) iron curtain. But perhaps this is too rational.
- > --
- > dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland
- > home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; e-mail: dik@cwi.nl
-
- I crossed from Austria to Czecholovakia this way in 1986. As I recall, although
- customs went through the train, we still waited on the border for a long time,
- since the train couldn't make the first Czechoslovak stop until customs had
- finished. Incidentally, from Vienna until just over the border the windows
- were all sealed. They were unlocked when customs passed. I presume that was
- to avoid boxes of Levis going out the window just over the border.
-
- My point is that even with this arrangement, you'll have to have enough
- time between the last US stop and the first Canadian stop to screen the
- whole train, and have some mechanism for deporting those not allowed across the
- border.
- --
- Thanks, John Kolassa, kolassa@bio1.bst.rochester.edu
-