Auto Train Cuts

[FriskyFL]

Let GML freeze and pay high taxes in the NE while retirees and snowbirds enjoy the warm winter and low taxes in Florida! References upon request!

We're hardly retirees, and most definitely enjoy the mostly beautiful weather and boundless outdoor activities that comes with living 15 min from the beach. I can look outside every morning and see palm trees in my front yard, not some post-apocalypse nightmare that is the Northeast US. ;-)

 

[Green Maned Lion]

Retirees should do what they want - not what GML wants.

Nuh-uh. I'm king of the world and everyone should do exactly what I say. Lol.

 

[MrFSS]

Retirees should do what they want - not what GML wants.

I'm a retiree and I only do what my wife tells me to do, never what I want to do!

 

[haolerider]

I was always under the impression Kevin O'Conner is the poster child for the Peter Principle. Except he's risen well above his level of incompetence.

Sorry GML, if it wasn't for us Yankees Florida would be nothing more than the Everglades. And besides I have to use my Sunpass somewhere.

Which would make it a much nicer place. Florida wildlife is quite interesting. All the people living there in their bland little communities of rickety ticky-tacky condos and equally crummy McMansions with their communities so carefully, so diligently, so painstakingly and lovingly crafted to make life as hard as possible for anybody who is a non driver. I personally think that anybody who is of retirement age who moves down there is proving their own incompetence at making choices about living and life. I said that to my parents' faces when they told me they were thinking of moving down there.

If one is of retirement age, one should be moving to someplace with excellent transit. Not Florida.

The auto train was always awful. Stop bringing your car to Florida. Better yet, don't go to Florida. There are lots of better places to go then Florida where you don't need a car to begin with.

So the Snowbirds who live there during the winter should just sell their house? I believe some/many use the AT to get back and forth twice per year without having to drive.

Precisely.

I think you have totally lost it and have allowed your opinion on people who "can't drive" to cloud your mind! Who in the world are you to tell people what they should do? No, you are not King of the World! I for one, am glad you like,living in the northeast......which is prettyfar from me!

 

[Green Maned Lion]

Haolroder, I am not telling people what to do. I am voicing my opinion on what I think people should do, a power vested in me by God and affirmed by the first amendment to the US Constitution. Vested in you by the same authorities is the powers to 1) ignore what I say completely, 2) disagree with what I said to whatever extent you want, and 3) voice your own opinion on the subject.

My comment on being king of the world was a joke, hence the LOL. I'm not even king of my own domain (my wife is, however, queen).

 

[Foremost Authority Man]

I view Florida as the flat land of trailer parks, nudist camps, giant cockroaches, foreclosed housing, drunks, sink holes and old fossils! My dad retired in the St Petersburg area. The restaurants serve food that tastes like it was cooked by cheap non-English speaking, unclean, unskilled labor. There is an auto accident every couple of miles every day on alt 1. On our last trip traveling from Tampa to Orlando there were not one but two overturned cars on Rt 4. The weather is stifling in summer, the crowds at Disney unbearable, the taxes are low but that's about it. Give me the greenery and the mountains.

 

[Just-Thinking-51]

Stop going in the summer. Snow birds get it right 6 months down in Florida, 6 months up in Northeast.

 

[Ryan]

Now I really want to change my username to "Foremost Authority Man".

 

[Allypet]

Maybe we should retitle this thread to "Cut the Auto Train"

 

[pennyk]

I view Florida as the flat land of trailer parks, nudist camps, giant cockroaches, foreclosed housing, drunks, sink holes and old fossils! My dad retired in the St Petersburg area. The restaurants serve food that tastes like it was cooked by cheap non-English speaking, unclean, unskilled labor. There is an auto accident every couple of miles every day on alt 1. On our last trip traveling from Tampa to Orlando there were not one but two overturned cars on Rt 4. The weather is stifling in summer, the crowds at Disney unbearable, the taxes are low but that's about it. Give me the greenery and the mountains.

Quite often, the temperature in Orlando in July and August is lower than it is in the Northeast. Floridians use air conditioners in the summer and do not go to Disney. I think the taxes need to be higher in Florida. Low taxes are not the reason I live here. I guess it is inertia, or I do not know any better. :lol: Our winter this year was pretty darn nice. Unfortunately, Spring is over and Summer has arrived.

And.... most of the bad drivers in Florida are either tourists or transplants from the Northeast.

 

[SarahZ]

Now I really want to change my username to "Foremost Authority Man".

I think you should change it to "Citation Needed".

 

[FormerOBS]

Is this about Florida, or the train that takes you there?

 

[Green Maned Lion]

Considering the train that takes us there is a unique child of the state itself, would it be fair to say both?

 

[tonys96]

I view Florida as the flat land of trailer parks, nudist camps, giant cockroaches, foreclosed housing, drunks, sink holes and old fossils! My dad retired in the St Petersburg area. The restaurants serve food that tastes like it was cooked by cheap non-English speaking, unclean, unskilled labor. There is an auto accident every couple of miles every day on alt 1. On our last trip traveling from Tampa to Orlando there were not one but two overturned cars on Rt 4. The weather is stifling in summer, the crowds at Disney unbearable, the taxes are low but that's about it. Give me the greenery and the mountains.

Quite often, the temperature in Orlando in July and August is lower than it is in the Northeast. Floridians use air conditioners in the summer and do not go to Disney. I think the taxes need to be higher in Florida. Low taxes are not the reason I live here. I guess it is inertia, or I do not know any better. :lol: Our winter this year was pretty darn nice. Unfortunately, Spring is over and Summer has arrived.

And.... most of the bad drivers in Florida are either tourists or transplants from the Northeast.

Florida is quite nice! Not Texas, of course, but quite nice in it's own way. Lots better than what we call "the armpit of America" where they close down bridges for political payback.

 

[Green Maned Lion]

Frankly if we are lucky that monstrosity won't reopen ever.

 

[NW cannonball]

Oh, snarky snarky. Actually, me, I've never wanted to visit Florida (except may be the farther Keys). For me, Tokyo or NYC is the place to be. Maybe parts of Texas of New Mexico or Arizona. Maybe even parts of California. Surely Portland or Seattle. Charleston SC was better than expected. Mumbai might be worse, but never been there.

The places I like most I'll never recommend, cause I don't want the riff-raff moving in, like they have in Florida.

 

[rrdude]

OK, back to topic, (and I'm as bad, or worse than anyone at straying...)

Consist for the trip North on the AT on April 20 was:

Coach Diner

Coach Diner

Coach

Coach

Coach

Coach

Coach

Lounge (the "one and only")

Sleeper

Sleeper

Sleeper

Sleeper Diner

Sleeper

Sleeper

Sleeper

Sleeper

Auto Racks.......

 

[user 1215]

When I lived in Kissimmee, I used to joke that I would run from my airconditioned apartment to my airconditioned car to my airconditioned job 9 months out of the year.

Now I really want to change my username to "Foremost Authority Man".

I think you should change it to "Citation Needed".

Maybe then I could change mine to "Ambiguous Stats Slinger".

 

[Allypet]

I live in the suburbs of NYC, and you can keep that! I can't wait to move to Florida! To me Florida is paradise, and became even more so when I found out the GML won't set foot there!..lol

 

[Ryan]

and became even more so when I found out the GML won't set foot there!..lol

That kind of personal attack is really uncalled for, "lol" or not.

 

[tonys96]

and became even more so when I found out the GML won't set foot there!..lol

That kind of personal attack is really uncalled for, "lol" or not.

Perhaps you can tell that to EVERYONE, not just some folks? How about those who admit that they attack folks, if they personally believe they 'deserve' it? Just sayin'.......lol

 

[NW cannonball]

Whatever opinions people have about Florida -- and me, I don't know, cause I'm never going to go there -

The Auto Train will likely keep running. Any minor changes to the consist and the price notwithstanding.

 

[guest_nj_2]

Concur with Allypet.

I would also prefer to roam as far away from GML as possible.

And, I like BOTH NJ and FL (live in NJ, vacation in FL).

Both are fine for different reasons (culture vs nature/climate).

 

[Green Maned Lion]

NJ does have a lot of culture. I thought we had invented anti biotics for that, though.

 

[Allypet]

OK, back to topic, (and I'm as bad, or worse than anyone at straying...)

Consist for the trip North on the AT on April 20 was:

Coach Diner

Coach Diner

Coach

Coach

Coach

Coach

Coach

Lounge (the "one and only")

Sleeper

Sleeper

Sleeper

Sleeper Diner

Sleeper

Sleeper

Sleeper

Sleeper

Auto Racks.......

Thanks RRDude. Do you remember if the car numbers looked like this?

----|---- —— Superliner Dorm
5245|5345 —— Superliner Sleeper
5243|5343 —— Superliner Sleeper
5241|5341 —— Superliner Sleeper Deluxe
----|---- —— Superliner Diner
5240|5340 —— Superliner Sleeper Deluxe
5242|5342 —— Superliner Sleeper
5244|5344 —— Superliner Sleeper
----|---- —— Superliner Auto Train Lounge
5210|5310 —— Superliner Coach
5211|5311 —— Superliner Coach
5212|5312 —— Superliner Coach
5213|5313 —— Superliner Coach
5214|5314 —— Superliner Coach
----|---- —— Superliner Diner
----|---- —— Superliner Diner (as table car)