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That’s impressive. AFAIK in the US, the only two major cities you can get between on regional trains (i.e., without using the national train operator Amtrak) is
by umanwizard 5y ago
That’s impressive. AFAIK in the US, the only two major cities you can get between on regional trains (i.e., without using the national train operator Amtrak) is New York and Philadelphia (New Jersey Transit from NY to Trenton, then SEPTA from Trenton to Philly).
NYC and Philly are so close that they could almost be considered the same metropolitan area, so it’s not very impressive!
Edit: also Baltimore and Washington, but those are even closer.
- Wowfunhappy 5y ago> NYC and Philly are so close that they could almost be considered the same metropolitan area, so it’s not very impressive! Indeed, supporting this: there are some people who live in Philly and commute to New York. (Using Amtrak, not the local trains.)
- ptspts 5y agoWhy not use the LORR to extend the distance?
- theobeers 5y agoYou could extend the distance, but it wouldn’t get you to another major city. I guess if you were touring Ivy League schools, you could see Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and Penn with only commuter rail networks (if you allowed yourself small local connections).
- jefftk 5y agoYou're somewhat close to being able to do it between Boston and New York (and then all the way to Philly); there's just the gap between Wickford Junction and New London. (MBTA's Providence line, gap, CTRail's Shore Line East, Metro-North’s New Haven Line)
- JackFr 5y agoSEPTA will take you as far south as Wilmington DE, and then Maryland’s MARC train goes as far north as Port Deposit, but that’s the gap that breaks up NY to DC.
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- jrockway 5y agoLA to San Diego is another one. Metrolink -> Coaster at Oceanside.
- umanwizard 5y agoNeat! I wouldn’t have expected this to be possible anywhere in the Southwest. There’s no connection — not even Amtrak, between Phoenix (where I’m from) and Tucson. I didn’t even know San Diego had regional trains.
- mintplant 5y agoCaltrain from San Jose to San Francisco? Or does that not count?
- umanwizard 5y agoMaybe, but I suppose I don’t really consider SJ its own major city independent of the SF metro area. Which is totally subjective, of course.