>>1166323So in closing, I want you to imagine this train, running 3, 5, and 7-day itineraries out of LA, Denver, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, or Seattle, looping through the Rockies, the PNW, and the deserts of the Southwest. Imagine naming the trains, building them so that no two are the same, and having them operate on a rotating itinerary, moving from city to city as the seasons change and different markets become more attractive, so that the train spending it's winters running loops through Navajo Territory, Southern Utah, Las Vegas, Scottsdale, and the Grand Canyon from Phoenix during the winter months moves up to Boise in the late spring for a loop of Glacier National Park, the Badlands, the Black Hills, and Northern Wyoming over the summer.
Now, imagine a train built to fit in the East River Tunnels that runs loops of New England from NYP, hitting Tanglewood, Vermont, New Hampshire hiking, and the Maine Coast during the summer, foliage during the fall, and the ski areas during the spring, while relocating to DC or ATL during February for loops of southern beach towns and the Appalachians.
It'd always be a niche, but with a country of over 350 million people, with the right marketing it shouldn't be too hard to find a few hundred people a week who want to give something a little different from the usual Cruise lines a try.
