[HN Gopher] When a winter storm trapped a luxury passenger train...
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       When a winter storm trapped a luxury passenger train near Donner
       Pass
        
       Author : pseudolus
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2025-01-10 17:16 UTC (3 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.smithsonianmag.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.smithsonianmag.com)
        
       | paulgerhardt wrote:
       | >If a debacle on this scale is surprising today...
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       | I used to think of American passenger train travel as this
       | romantic affair until being similarly stranded in the Cascade's
       | for 24 hours with no cell or Internet service back in 2019
       | (albeit without the carbon monoxide poisoning.)[1]
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       | Now I say leave the rails to freight. 500tmpg is a pretty good
       | multiple over sending things via truck.
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       | [1] https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-
       | news/2019/02/am...
        
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