>>1974499cont.
3. SOVL, unironically. Streamliner cars harken back to an age of mystique, beauty, and luxury that's basically UNKNOWN TECHNOLOGY (БЛЯTЬ)-tier compared to modern public transportation, and that brings in money. Tourists and railfans will pay out the ass to get to ride on a Pullman sleeper, I know because I've literally done it. Buying a bunch of retired Amtrak shitboxes whose hideous appearance was alone arguably a major contributing factor in the near-total collapse in the popularity of passenger rail travel post-1971 simply doesn't have that appeal.
