[PRCo] RAIL Magazine (Issue 35)

D Brashear shadow at dementix.org
Wed Jul 23 22:06:55 EDT 2014


On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net> wrote:

> D Cramer,
>
> I've been a passenger on the Empire Builder three times from Pittsburgh to
> Sparta, WI (Fort McCoy) and return. That was when I worked for the Dept of
> the Army on Leech Farm Road. The civilian administrative training center
> was at Fort McCoy, WI. Under the JTR civilian employees who were required
> to travel had the choice of flying coach or taking Amtrak first class. It
> didn't take much thinking for me to select Amtrak. It is an excellent train
> and has excellent service, especially in First Class.
>
>
The delays on the Capitol Limited recently eastbound have been nuts. Still,
they
don't screw you like the airlines when you're missing a connection.

>
> Bob,
> I was looking at several "Pgh Dad" videos on YouTube a couple weeks ago.
> They're good and worth watching.
>

The younger of my sisters bought a house near Canonsburg recently, and she
ran into Pittsburgh Dad while
she was at IKEA this past weekend.

--
Daria



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