"Usually, you get from Point A to Point B, and you get to see all of the points in between, even if you don’t do it in the time frame you were sold.In 1971, when the government took over responsibility for passenger-rail service, forming Amtrak, The New York Times speculated that passenger-rail enthusiasts would be “extinct by 1985.”"
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