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For me the whole point of flying is fast travel. Private even more so, because it operates on your schedule. A Amtrak train is slower than driving.
by bitmasher9 1y ago
For me the whole point of flying is fast travel. Private even more so, because it operates on your schedule.
A Amtrak train is slower than driving.
- thinkingtoilet 1y agoIt depends. I take the Amtrack from Albany to Chicago once a year or so because I hate flying. It's maybe an hour or two slower than driving and that's with a lot of time built in to the schedule for delays. The last time I took it We left Albany 45 minutes late and still made it on time to Chicago. Yes, delays happen, just like in traffic or at the air port, but I find the focus on delays when Amtrak comes up extremely over-stated. Perhaps it's just the routes I'm on.
- guappa 1y agoWow you take the train once a year, certainly there's nobody more qualified than you to speak about them!
- Gud 1y agoIf you have all the money in the world, why would you need to go fast? Just enjoy the ride in comfort and style.
- antonkochubey 1y agoPrivate rail car is nowhere near as comfortable as actually getting home quickly, especially you have the kind of home that people with all the money in the world do.
- Gud 1y agoAnd for some, the journey is the destination.
- bluGill 1y agoMany people with money travel so much home is a hotel. They 'have a large manson that the staff says is nice' isn't quite the truth but it isn't far off. though they also don't have time to take a slow train.
- defrost 1y agoPerhaps more of a European mega-rich habit, not especially applicable to the US, is the practice of just taking the mansion, helicopters, and cars with you on a super yacht. * https://theitalianseagroup.com/ https://theitalianseagroup.com/ * https://benettiyachts.com/ https://benettiyachts.com/ * https://www.sanlorenzoyacht.com/ https://www.sanlorenzoyacht.com/
- guappa 1y agoI'd forbid those things in territorial waters. They bring no money to local communities and are glad to do things like ignore nature reserves or go with motor boats where people are swimming, which is of course illegal but they don't care.
- ghaff 1y agoEven if you travel a lot and just have one home, spending a lot of time on luxury travel can still get old.
- TylerE 1y agoFor the people that own these cars, it’s about the journey, not the destination.
- Gud 1y agoFWIW I am away from home ~300 days a year for work and I have the choice of any mode of transport. I prefer train any time.
- bobthepanda 1y agoIt depends on the route and the distance. For example, Portland to Seattle isn't that far but I-5 can easily back up and become an hours-long ordeal, and SEA and PDX aren't particularly close to a lot of places.
- bombcar 1y agoTraffic jams have become so much easier to handle with lane following and down-to-zero adaptive cruise control. A backlog of hundreds of hours of podcasts doesn’t hurt. Still would prefer the train.
- bobthepanda 1y agoWhile this is true, there is also something to be said about predictability. A train that is an hour slower than the best driving time but consistently so is easier to plan around than a car that is an hour faster or an hour slower than the train with no clear rhyme or reason.
- bitmasher9 1y agoAgreed that SEA to PDX is uniquely useful on the west coast. Similar trips are also practical in the north east for the same reasons (relatively short distance for a flight, high car traffic and great station locations)