Comments on: Air-Rail Line Spans America in 48 Hours http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/16/air-rail-line-spans-america-in-48-hours/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:54:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Peter http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/16/air-rail-line-spans-america-in-48-hours/#comment-1053910 Peter Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:27:22 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/16/air-rail-line-spans-america-in-48-hours/#comment-1053910 If one goes to the Amtrak concourse in New York's Pennsylvania Station there is a little display near the "Club Acela" lounge commemorating this service. If one goes to the Amtrak concourse in New York’s Pennsylvania Station there is a little display near the “Club Acela” lounge commemorating this service.

]]> By: aquanetta http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/16/air-rail-line-spans-america-in-48-hours/#comment-1053290 aquanetta Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:27:44 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/16/air-rail-line-spans-america-in-48-hours/#comment-1053290 I see you still managed to post to the blog after the ginormous beer dinner and an hour drive home. That's dedication. Might as well, I suppose. I was up until 12:30am with indigestion. I see you still managed to post to the blog after the ginormous beer dinner and an hour drive home. That’s dedication.

Might as well, I suppose. I was up until 12:30am with indigestion.

]]> By: Blurgle http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/16/air-rail-line-spans-america-in-48-hours/#comment-1053275 Blurgle Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:01:45 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/16/air-rail-line-spans-america-in-48-hours/#comment-1053275 Before somebody looks at the map and wonders when Las Vegas moved - there are two Las Vegases, and that's <a href="http://maps.google.ca/maps?ie=UTF8&q=Las+Vegas,+NM,+USA&ll=35.605394,-105.216408&spn=0.118633,0.32135&z=12" rel="nofollow">the other one.</a> The <a href="http://www.godickson.com/gca1.htm" rel="nofollow">Grand Central Air Terminal</a> in Glendale <a href="http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_LA_C.htm#grandcentral" rel="nofollow">was closed in 1959</a>, but the terminal building is still there, and the main runway is now used as a side street. Passengers took the train in Pennsylvania because the railroad owned part of the route. They took the train from Dodge City to Las Vegas because there weren't yet passenger aircraft that could economically and safely fly passengers over that stretch of highland without an interim stop (and there were no airfields between those two towns at the time). Before somebody looks at the map and wonders when Las Vegas moved - there are two Las Vegases, and that’s the other one.

The Grand Central Air Terminal in Glendale was closed in 1959, but the terminal building is still there, and the main runway is now used as a side street.

Passengers took the train in Pennsylvania because the railroad owned part of the route. They took the train from Dodge City to Las Vegas because there weren’t yet passenger aircraft that could economically and safely fly passengers over that stretch of highland without an interim stop (and there were no airfields between those two towns at the time).

]]> By: Al Bear http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/16/air-rail-line-spans-america-in-48-hours/#comment-1053223 Al Bear Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:01:38 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/16/air-rail-line-spans-america-in-48-hours/#comment-1053223 Wow! only 48 hours? man, when I fly from LA to NYC I go nuts sitting on that seat for the whole 5.5 hours :P Wow! only 48 hours? man, when I fly from LA to NYC I go nuts sitting on that seat for the whole 5.5 hours :P

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