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You aren't going to get a "nice" car for under $1000. You aren't even going to get one where everything works. But that wasn't what we were talking about; we were talking about reliable. If it starts up, drives you from point A to point B, and then from point B to point A, with over a 99%...

You're correct. A lot of people residing in Reading are from New York as a result of Boscov's rather outsized impact on the garment industry, and a lot of former NYC garment people moving out there for various reasons, including employment, and that also results in a lot of travel to NY as a...

If you can get any of the vehicles suggested to engage in four wheel drift, you are a better driver than I, Charlie Brown. :p

The valves can be in a variety of places, so a specific picture would be pointless; the valves are made out of hard plastic, whereas the rest of the mask is made of fiber; if it had a substantial area, usually square or round, of the mask made of plastic it is likely valved; under its more...

To be clear wearing masks is a pain in the a- er, tuchus. I hate the things. I have a surgical mask (my wife got a few from a client who had them) and I have trouble breathing, I have trouble seeing, and I can’t breathe adequately when I go out to walk for exercise when wearing one- so I don’t...

Well back when I was buying such cars, Mercedes W123 chassis cars were still available at reasonable prices. More modern Benzes are an entirely different ball of wax, reliability and maintenance wise, so that would be out, unless you can find a lower mileage MB 240D. It wouldn’t be under $1k but...

All of these comments are based on an extraordinarily flawed assumption- That travel of any significant distance will be anything close to what it was before this pandemic. It won’t. Reliable self transportation is extremely inexpensive; i’ve paid less than $1000 for a reliable automobile...

I have a feeling Gateway will be a victim of the coronavirus, not just because of cost, but of obviated need. Rail and transit usage in this country is going to permanently go down as a result of fear and general American stupidity, of which we have a surfeit. In addition to people choosing to...

Keystones will return when people start building arches properly again. yes people, I really am sort of back.

Drive.

“In politics every crisis is an opportunity.” I put quotes because I am sure it is one although I don’t recall who. Although I am not one who believes something like “an entire party and all of business is out to kill the Amtrak network if it is the last thing they do,” I do believe there is a...

The reason we don’t want LD train suspensions is that if they are suspended there is an odds on chance they will never run again.

Yes I would buy a Russian car, and durability primarily. Different nations tend to have different standards for what something has to hold up to; Russian made stuff is generally designed to be capable of handling several times the required operating specification, on the premise that all...

Russian made products are, generally speaking, well made, high quality, and very inexpensive for what they are. Since I discovered this in the late 90s importing Poljot (Pawl-yoat) I have been involved in a number of ventures importing watches (Poljot, Vostok, Slava, and Raketa) as well as...

Now now, Jishnu, never let the facts get in the way of a good narrative.

The desired competence of someone at implementing an agenda varies on how much you like their agenda.

See? Some of these commuter lines still allow people to enjoy life on their trains. ^_^

NJT not being the worst would scare me. Traveling from NYC to places within NJ works poorly. Traveling from one place in NJ to another that is not on the same line is, hmm how do I describe this without making it seem like they intentionally make it as bad as possible? I can’t. Because given...

Frankly the vast surface portion of Phillys trolleys don’t make sense. They take advantage of almost none of the benefits of rail, while being saddled, and saddling the city with, its disadvantages.

The incompetence of this is not in their inability to calculate costs, it is in hell expensively they do things. Amfleet II on the cardinal, average revenue $100 per seat per trip, 59 seats, $5900 for the trip. The car is out of service for two roundtrips, one to remove the seats the other to...