It's like one those corporate carriages at pride marches; the pride part is super wholesome, the corporate part is a bit strange. Well, riding (in) trains is endorsable - but passenger transport could also be public.
A single ticket for a train from Austin to Chicago is like $150 and takes a full day. The same plane ticket can be regularly bought for the same price and gets there in about 6 hours.
I find it's highly dependent on the route. I can get from my hometown (Madison, WI) to Detroit by plane for a little over $600. Amtrak stops at a small town a little north of Madison (about a 20min drive for me), and can get me to Detroit for $150. Even a private room is a bit cheaper than a plane.
Train does take 16 hours, but it's 16 relatively pleasant hours where I can stretch out without being cramped. It would also be significantly faster if we invested in rail properly. Hell, maybe not even high speed rail; that route could probably be a lot faster if we just made Amtrak suck less.
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kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 84 pts · 2y
I'm clearly taking the wrong trains :3
Death_Equity@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Come to Chicago, take the Red, Purple, or Brown lines to Belmont. Wait for what you are looking for and there you go.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 2y
Thats the problem, im in New York
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 27 pts · 2y
I hear Amtrak can help you with that
Death_Equity@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
They do want more lesbians to take the train to Chicago from what I've read.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y
Hmmm :3
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y
If the brown line doesn't connect to Cleveland, my day will be ruined.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
It dead ends in Albany Park. My condolences, the CTA does not offer any service to any metropolitan area from Chicago.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee · 53 pts · 2y
I think we might be able to guess something about the person in charge of Amtrak's tumblr page...
n2burns@lemmy.ca · 76 pts · 2y
They probably don't work for Amtrak?
NegativeInf@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 2y
But they should. Good marketing.
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 2y
Everybody always like "fuck cars" but nobody can "fuck in car."
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 41 pts · 2y
I assure you plenty of people have fucked in cars
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
And that's how I was born. Well, it was a pickup, but the principle is the same.
amanda@aggregatet.org · 13 pts · 2y
User name checks out
shininghero@pawb.social · 8 pts · 2y
That one particularly steamy car scene from Titanic says otherwise. 😏
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
But they were also on a boat... Hmmmm. This gives me an idea about the auto train.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2y
There was a not great charlie sheen movie in the 90s called the chase where he has sex in a car while being chased by police.
TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 24 pts · 2y
Is it only on the line to Chicago? Would they be willing to implement it on other services?
recklessengagement@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y
I'm fucking DYING this is so fucking funny to me
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 2y
It's like one those corporate carriages at pride marches; the pride part is super wholesome, the corporate part is a bit strange. Well, riding (in) trains is endorsable - but passenger transport could also be public.
Also, steamy and trains...
I'd wink their carriage anyways.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 9 pts · 2y
They just need to run carriages with private compartments rather than airline-style seating. Problem solved.
mightyfoolish@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
They already have those. They are offering steamy lesbian sex with a lonely butch; not a open show. 🤦♀️
sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 2y
A single ticket for a train from Austin to Chicago is like $150 and takes a full day. The same plane ticket can be regularly bought for the same price and gets there in about 6 hours.
Z27F@thelemmy.club · 22 pts · 2y
graymess@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Trying to be happy for the rest of the world.
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 2y
But are there any hot gay women on that plane? Or hot gay tomatoes in your case?
sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y
I hope to seduce all gay beings within a 100 meter radius at all times.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 2y
Bravo, you solved it. Solution-oriented. Climate breakdown averted.
frezik@midwest.social · 4 pts · 2y
I find it's highly dependent on the route. I can get from my hometown (Madison, WI) to Detroit by plane for a little over $600. Amtrak stops at a small town a little north of Madison (about a 20min drive for me), and can get me to Detroit for $150. Even a private room is a bit cheaper than a plane.
Train does take 16 hours, but it's 16 relatively pleasant hours where I can stretch out without being cramped. It would also be significantly faster if we invested in rail properly. Hell, maybe not even high speed rail; that route could probably be a lot faster if we just made Amtrak suck less.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 2y
I think I have, on occasion, been the butch, alone in the café car.
ETA Though that was between San Francisco and Eugene, nowhere near Chicago.
dogsnest@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
mmmmmm.....lesbian train.....
Death_Equity@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
I do believe that is called a "daisy chain".
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Only thing I've ever dodged on Amtrak was roof leaks. I'd love to dodge a good lesbian orgy instead.
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social · 2 pts · 2y
amtrak where is the sex car
answer me amtrak
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Someone just made a tumbler account and added -official to a random brand name . Yeah sounds legit
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y