Originally Posted by
jlemon
Ah yes, the Aints....er....Saints did indeed lose that opening game.
However, I would have been found on board Amtrak operating Southern Pacific's old "Sunset Limited" route from New Orleans to San Antone and then hitchhiked up Interstate 35 back to Austin....
I know this is the Old Timer's AIRLINE Quiz and Discussion but your comment makes for a good Old Timer's TRAIN Quiz and Discussion item:
Q: "What storied American long distance train actually improved under Amtrak operation?"
A: "The Sunset Limited."
(The "friendly" Southern Pacific was hated in its final years of passenger train operations and apparently had a deliberate strategy to take things out on its passengers: make its trains as unappealing as possible to make them as unprofitable as possible to try and get the ICC to let them abandon them. SP's replacement of real dining cars with despised automats was one notable example of this.)
AA in the 2020s = SP of the late '60s?
And now back to our regularly scheduled aviation discussion...