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Sam
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I was at my parents' house over Christmas and found an Amtrak Travel Planner magazine from 2001. In it there were a couple pages that touted the new Acela (Express, Regional & Commuter) service as well as the new Pacific Surfliner. There are also descriptions of routes no longer around such as the Twilight Shoreliner and the Three Rivers with it's Heritage Sleepers. What was of particular interest to me was the 'planned Amtrak routes' that were advertised, but of which hardly any of them came to be:
* Boston to Portland, ME (unnamed in the magazine but the only route I could find that actually began service)
* The Skyline Connection - Chicago to Philadelphia via Toledo, Cleveland, Pittsburg, Johnstown & Harrisburg with proposed extension to New York (followed the same route as the Pennsylvanian at the time)
* A branch of the Silver Service between Jacksonville and West Palm Beach via Daytona Beach & Cape Canaveral
* The Crescent Star - Follows the route of the Crescent from New York to Meridian, MS then to Fort Worth via Jackson, Shreveport and Dallas
* Extension of the Texas Eagle from San Antonio to Monterrey, Mexico via Laredo
Does anyone have any specifics as to what became of these proposals, and why most of them never got off the ground?
Thanks & Happy New Year!!
* Boston to Portland, ME (unnamed in the magazine but the only route I could find that actually began service)
* The Skyline Connection - Chicago to Philadelphia via Toledo, Cleveland, Pittsburg, Johnstown & Harrisburg with proposed extension to New York (followed the same route as the Pennsylvanian at the time)
* A branch of the Silver Service between Jacksonville and West Palm Beach via Daytona Beach & Cape Canaveral
* The Crescent Star - Follows the route of the Crescent from New York to Meridian, MS then to Fort Worth via Jackson, Shreveport and Dallas
* Extension of the Texas Eagle from San Antonio to Monterrey, Mexico via Laredo
Does anyone have any specifics as to what became of these proposals, and why most of them never got off the ground?
Thanks & Happy New Year!!