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Just picking two large cities, Dallas to New Orleans takes 33 hours by Amtrak vs. 7 hours just driving a car. It’s hard to understand how anyone would make tha
by Mistletoe 2y ago
Just picking two large cities, Dallas to New Orleans takes 33 hours by Amtrak vs. 7 hours just driving a car. It’s hard to understand how anyone would make that choice. I’d really like rail to be a choice in the USA for being able to get somewhere instead of the train ride being the destination.
It looks like $104 by coach, which seems really reasonable but I can’t imagine sitting in a coach seat in a car that has both upper and lower levels for 33h. A private room is $619. A round trip plane ticket is about $139 and the flight is 1h37m. Amtrak needs to enter our universe.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoWell, you've chosen two large cities that don't have an Amtrak route between them so you have a layover in San Antonio
- kylehotchkiss 2y agoThat sounds like a super boring route. I’d much rather do Chicago to LA, SF, or Seattle, as all those routes pass through interesting to me scenery. I will say the coast starlight was pretty full when I took it from LA to Seattle. A lot of people take it and really really like it. The staff seemed more personable and to be enjoying themselves over the ones I’ve experienced in northeast corridor
- itronitron 2y agoAny location in Texas, aside from El Paso?, seems like a hassle by train. I priced DC to Austin a few years ago and it was way too expensive even for a consumer that wanted to take the trip by train. Amtrak seems to be good at North to South on the coasts, and East to West in the middle, but bad at any diagonal routes.