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Attaching private car to regular Amtrak service

Anonymous Sat 23 Aug 2025 04:15:32 No.2051933 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2051936 >>2052090 >>2052213

What's stopping i/n/cels from renting a car and attaching it to Amtrak California Zephyr from S.F. to Chicago?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Aug 2025 07:43:45 No.2051936 Report

Quoted By: >>2051937

>>2051933
Because even a functional boxcar (no ventilation, lighting, etc.) is still thousands of dollars that /n/ doesn't have?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Aug 2025 07:47:30 No.2051937 Report

Quoted By: >>2051939

>>2051936
That and the required insurance policy and requirement to have essentially your own conductor on staff are hefty costs. The actual price/mile is actually pretty cheap.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Aug 2025 08:11:10 No.2051939 Report

Quoted By: >>2051994 >>2052003

>>2051937
There is at least one company with a fleet of private railcars that will let you charter them, they handle all that stuff

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Aug 2025 10:25:31 No.2051947 Report

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Why not just harpoon the train while wearing rollerskates?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Aug 2025 15:14:45 No.2051971 Report

Quoted By: >>2051974

There’s a lot of really cool, very expensive trips you could do with this in theory.

In reality you’ll be extremely limited where you can go and where you can park it for a few days. and the capricious bureaucrat at Amtrak will strand you and your (very high paying) customers because the federal employee DEI hires botched some meaningless paperwork thing and there’s “nothing they can do”.

Cool idea though

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Aug 2025 15:48:45 No.2051974 Report

Quoted By: >>2051999

>>2051971
Relax you can just say "niggers", it's fine now. Slavery is now officially good per the federal government.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Aug 2025 20:37:00 No.2051994 Report

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>>2051939
More than one :) But here is one of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSkysFOkupI

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Aug 2025 21:30:43 No.2051999 Report

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>>2051974
man I wish

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Aug 2025 22:22:04 No.2052003 Report

Quoted By: >>2052009 >>2052011

>>2051939
Defeats the purpose of hitching your own car to it. Like I said, hauling the car is cheap. Storage, insurance, and having a designated person in charge are costly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Aug 2025 22:54:30 No.2052009 Report

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>>2052003
>if I just repeat my failed argument, I win!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Aug 2025 23:43:49 No.2052011 Report

Quoted By: >>2052012

>>2052003
>Defeats the purpose of hitching your own car to it.
You're literally hitching your own car (that you chartered) to the back of an Amtrak train. The costs of all that other stuff are already rolled into the price.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Aug 2025 23:46:59 No.2052012 Report

Quoted By: >>2052013 >>2052112

>>2052011
It's not your own personally owned car. You're just renting it. Hardly the same.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 24 Aug 2025 00:03:00 No.2052013 Report

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>>2052012
It's my car for the duration of the charter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 24 Aug 2025 12:04:40 No.2052035 Report

Quoted By: >>2052130

I live near Ann Arbor, MI and occasionally see these two private cars parked on a siding there. I chatted up one of the crew members and they belong to a CEO who takes clients on trips to football games and such. Seems a lot cooler than a private jet and this would be my dream if I had fuck you money. As others have mentioned, there’s bigger expenses than just paying Amtrak to haul you around.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 24 Aug 2025 20:37:43 No.2052090 Report

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>>2051933
ok hear me out
we get a hot air balloon
and we attach it to the train

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 24 Aug 2025 21:23:42 No.2052112 Report

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>>2052012
nigga you can find abandoned train cars just about anywhere
fuck nigga, people even turn them into airbnbs
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/44613554
da train car don't cost shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 24 Aug 2025 23:12:05 No.2052130 Report

Quoted By: >>2052226

>>2052035
I was born in U of M hospital across the street from the station, and when I was really little, we went to Chicago from that station. is the street still paved with brick over there?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Aug 2025 16:39:34 No.2052213 Report

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>>2051933
Straight out of Atlas Shrugged. If I ever get rich enough I would definitely do this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Aug 2025 19:46:41 No.2052226 Report

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>>2052130
There’s still some brick paving in front of the old depot, a chunky stone Railroad Romanesque gem, which is now a restaurant. The current Amtrak station is just down the block, functional but charmless.

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