Passenger Trains > Just wondering

With all of the travel cut backs I'm reading about on land, sea, and in the air, it makes me wonder just how important all that trave really is in the first place.

mdolot1 Wrote:
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> With all of the travel cut backs I'm reading about
> on land, sea, and in the air, it makes me wonder
> just how important all that trave really is in the
> first place.

Pretty much depends on your definition of "important"!

discretionary for sure, leisure travel  and even buisness

mdolot1 Wrote:
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> With all of the travel cut backs I'm reading about
> on land, sea, and in the air, it makes me wonder
> just how important all that trave really is in the
> first place.

This question is being asked all over the airwaves.... FWIW...travel came to a screaching halt after 911, and it took a while, but travel came back as strong as ever.    Also there has been talk for 20 years now, about how how skype, etc, was going to make business travel unnecessary.  Guess what, didnt happen.

There are things u can see in a face to face meeting, that a TV screen presence will never live up to.

And, Most People like to travel.  Most Ppl like a change of scenery.  .



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/08/20 15:21 by pdt.

Travel is important to the people whose jobs depend on travelers (hotel & restaurant staff, museums & other tourist attractions and airline, bus and Amtrak employees).

9/11 did in the acadian train,  they relied on tourists to use air travel to arrive;   places like durango & silverton  , grand canyon  rely on  the could be hurt, or perhaps we will see more domestic tourism in the west, from adjoining states?  Chineese restaurants are being decimated.

no sweet and sour  for you

,I remember seeing an old railroad ad from the 1920's (the DL&W), showing Phoebe Snow on the back of an open observation car, simply saying ==

"The desire to be somewhere else"

Good a reason as any for traveling

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

--Mark Twain



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"Getting there is half the fun." From a Cunard ad back in the day when ships were used to get from one place to another, not just for entertainment. Isn't there some statistic that the majority of American's have never left the country? They have no clue what they are missing. 

Travel
by Edna St. Vincent Millay

The railroad track is miles away,
And the day is loud with voices speaking,
Yet there isn't a train goes by all day
But I hear its whistle shrieking.

All night there isn't a train goes by,
Though the night is still for sleep and dreaming,
But I see its cinders red on the sky,
And hear its engine steaming.

My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.



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Don't let the current "world's events" stop you from living.

Live every moment, ask for forgiveness later....

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My sister's father in law only was in Illinois and Wisconsin his entire 90 year life

My travel is necessary for other people’s survival. If I don’t get my freakin rides in, I’m gonna catch a case. Lol.

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ns1000 Wrote:
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> Don't let the current "world's events" stop you
> from living.
>
> Live every moment, ask for forgiveness later....
>
> Posted from Android

i'd rather ask for the forgiveness 1ST...........

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When we were at Stonehenge in England last year, my wife and I ran into a couple who have sold their house / furniture, and gone on the road / high seas. They have a camper on a Ford F250 pickup. A mail drop in Texas which scans letters and sends them via internet.Some stuff in a storage unit.

They've visited six continents,  50 countries and taken 18 cruises in the past two years.  Sometimes they meet people and stay with them, other times they camp out, or use a hotel.

andersonb109 Wrote:
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> "Getting there is half the fun." From a Cunard ad
> back in the day when ships were used to get from
> one place to another, not just for entertainment.
> Isn't there some statistic that the majority of
> American's have never left the country? They have
> no clue what they are missing. 

And Cunard is the last line that still does it between NY and UK.