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Re:Want airline food? Take Amtrak by objectivetruth on Friday April 20, 2018 @03:50PM (#16887968)
A few reasons: the train has to slow down and then get back up to speed for each stop; there are stops in a few cities for refueling / shift change / restocking onboard supplies. These stops take a lot longer than just filling up your gas tank on a road trip, anywhere from 1 to 3 hours. And the article points out that Amtrak is lower priority than freight when track conflicts occur, so you will spend some time sitting on the prairie waiting for a freight train to go by.

Realistically, nobody's making that drive in 31 hours anyway without a lot of caffeine and breaking the speed limit.

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Re:Want airline food? Take Amtrak by Fins on Friday April 20, 2018 @08:19PM (#16889291)
With that much caffeine you'd be making a lot of pit stops.

I did do it in 40 hours and some change, but with one speeding ticket in Utah, and by the time I got home I knew I ain't doing that on "google schedule" again.

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