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The Auto Train, An Amtrak Failure

The Auto Train was not long ago a more civilized and genteel method of travel.  Our past experience has shown the bloom is off of the rose.   Now the Auto Train is simply another means to get from point A to point B.   From what I have gleaned on the Internet, one disgruntled congressman is responsible for derailing this very popular train.   Congressman John Mica from Florida appears to have the destruction of rail service as one of his primary goals.   It is dismaying to see that an elected representative can be so short sighted as to not recognize the importance of rail travel.   The Auto Train has available coach and compartment travel from Lorton Virginia to Sanford Florida .   You paid for your ticket in either coach or compartment and you paid for your vehicle to be transported.   It doesn't take a mathematician to see that if you remove several hundred cars a day from I95, you are reducing...