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Reply to "AMTRAK to suspend long distance trains article"

Dominic Mazoch posted:

He might be confusing the EB with the NORTH COAST, a discontinued CHI-SEA train which did run try weakly under Amtrak.

Nah, I trust that he really meant the current Empire Builder. Didn't the old (long gone) Amtrak North Coast (Hiawatha?)use the NP tracks anyway? Different route parallel to that of the GN which the Builder uses.

There has also been talk of adding a Chicago to St Paul round trip daily, which might make real sense if the full Builder was three times a week. That run is not "long distance" at around 400 miles. 

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