NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/rec/railroad/9145

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From: [e-mail] (Allon Percus)
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Subject: Re: Amtrak's future under a Clinton administration
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:24:54 GMT
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> 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).

And furthermore I think this would be very easy to do on the Montreal
trains as there is no passenger stop on the Canadian side of the border
until St-Lambert (just outside of Montreal itself).  This gives the
border officials almost an hour or so do their inspections, etc.  For
the southbound trains they could get on at Montreal (where there is
already a U.S. Customs office at the train station), begin the inspection
after St-Lambert and then get off after the border.  For the northbound
trains it's basically the same thing, they could get on at the border,
which would give them plenty of time to finish the inspection before
arriving at St-Lambert.

Allon Percus