Mardi Gras to Jacksonville? A Second Crescent? Nope
Jim Matthews, RPA
We all have things we deeply, desperately want to be true. But in a world in which the unscrupulous, the deceptive, or simply the naïve have access to AI-driven creation tools, the risks that come from passing along things that just feel so right...can be pretty wrong.
Unfortunately, there’s a lot of that going on in passenger rail. I can’t tell you how many times in a typical week I get an email from a donor or supporter letting me know about some really fantastic development that I really should say something about.
Trouble is, 99.99 percent of the time, it just ain’t so.
One came to me last week breathlessly claiming that Amtrak was already running a new train called the Mountaineer ( ! ) extending Gulf Coast service (currently between New Orlans and Mobile) to Jacksonville, along with a second daily Crescent between New York City and New Orleans.
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