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TIL Amtrak will let you attach your own private car to one of their trains and they charge you per a mile (lemmy.world)

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[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

US-CAR 1 or uscar 1. We've had several before so it's not particularly an abstract.

They're all named after great explorers, Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan etc.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

So theoretically if we got a new president who was into using trains to get around we could have a high speed uscar1 named Neil Armstrong or Yuri Gagarin? Though I assume astronauts wouldn't be considered explorers and would be reserved for spacecraft the president is on

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[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Correct though it's unlikely any president will travel by train again given the best security is people simply not knowing where you are going or when. Being trapped in one direction is a big no no.

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[–] TehWorld@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

You KNOW that they'd have a fleet of helicopters, AWACS, fighter jets and vehicle escorts just hanging around the side of the running train.

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[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

imagine getting to be late for school because your bus got stuck at a Presidential Train Crossing, and being able to see the copters and jets fly over.

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[–] TehWorld@lemmy.world 1 point 11 months ago

Was it McCain who said that he’d campaign in every state but was said to have regretted it because the time to travel to Hawaii, Alaska and a few other states (Idaho etc) were kid of a waste?

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