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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

rsdsharp

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5. I took a sleeper from LA to KC in 1962.

Reply to wryter2000 (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 11, 2019, 02:05 PM

Jun 2019

We got as far as Needles, on the CA-AZ, border where we discovered there was a derailment in front of us. So we sat in Needles -- in August -- for 16 hours, in 116 heat, without a dining or club car, and with only enough ice to air condition every other car (ours wasn't).

Once was enough for me.

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