The Amtrak candidate

So now we have a vice presidential candidate who uses Amtrak every day. Joe Biden commutes from Washington to his home in Delaware. If he’s elected, some people think that bodes well for rail travel. Would be nice to have some Amtrak champion with clout in DC.

It’s worth noting that John McCain has been an Amtrak opponent for years. But who knows? Maybe his veep choice will be another train fan.

Planetizen.com offers this item about Biden and Amtrak.

While I was in Boston last year, we took the train to New York and I noticed that between Boston and New York Amtrak was something like nine Acela trains a day (that’s the speedier, slightly nicer train), as well as almost hourly regular trains. They ran on time, and were quite handy.

Made me envious. While we were in NYC’s Penn Station awaiting a train back to Boston, I heard an announcement that the train from New Orleans — which is one of the few trains that comes through Charlotte — was arriving … three hours late. Figures.