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- From: dboone@IASTATE.EDU (David L. Boone)
- Subject: Re: Amtrak and cold weather
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.174636@IASTATE.EDU>
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: dboone@IASTATE.EDU (David L. Boone)
- Organization: Iowa State University
- References: <725938728.AA01622@tdkt.kksys.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 23:46:36 GMT
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- In article <725938728.AA01622@tdkt.kksys.com>, MRH@tdkt.kksys.com (Dan McNulty)
- writes:
- > Re: Amtrak's Empire Builder comes to a stop.
- >
- > Because of the severe cold weather in the upper midwest region, Amtrak's
- > Empire Builder has discontinued its route of service temporarily. Bus
- > service is being used to transport people who were stranded when service
- > came to a halt.
- >
- > ->Dan McNulty (From the Shoreham Section)
-
- Say WHAT!?! Are you serious? I cannot imagine this. If this is the case, do
- these people think they are running an airline, or what? I'd like to see some
- more details. Prior to 1980 when steam heat was still in use, they didn't
- cancel the only form of transportation which could reliably get through (a bit
- late, perhaps) just because it was winter in the midwest. Chicago & North
- Western in the 1970's had a slogan: "Winter is no excuse. We've been through
- 122 of 'em." [or something close]
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- David L. Boone
- Engineer, Iowa State University Computation Center
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