MangoCon 2019
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Some people just love trains, some hate to fly. Twenty two hours is pretty extreme, though. That's one long day. But you can pretty easily sleep, eat, drink, even work on a train. It's super comfy, to me at least. If it wasn't for my need for a CPAP to sleep, I'd often do long train trips if they cost was close to flying.
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@scottalanmiller Why can't you use a CPAP on a train?
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@dustinb3403 said in MangoCon 2019:
@scottalanmiller Why can't you use a CPAP on a train?
You CAN, and I do on sleeper trains. But you have to have the seat next to you free. If you can't guarantee that on a normal train, then you have nowhere safe to put the CPAP.
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If you start in St. Louis instead of Chicago, the deals are a bit more realistic. Same train, but you don't have to cross Illinois on it.
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Anyone coming in from Okahoma City has it really nice and easy. You'd need a car pool in from Gainesville, but other than that, the train is SO easy.
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For anyone looking at public transport around Dallas.... the "near" station for the conference is almost certainly Trinity Mills on the DART Green Line. An Uber from there to anywhere being considered would be trivial.
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@scottalanmiller said in MangoCon 2019:
Anyone coming in from Okahoma City has it really nice and easy. You'd need a car pool in from Gainesville, but other than that, the train is SO easy.
Sadly, it looks like the run from Cleveland sucks. 32 hours, 6 of which are waiting between trains in Chicago.
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@travisdh1 there is no run from Cleveland, that's why it sucks. It's one run to Chicago, then another to Texas.
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What site is this so I can look up train rides?
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@jmoore said in MangoCon 2019:
What site is this so I can look up train rides?
Just use Amtrak's own website. It'll give you all the details.
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@scottalanmiller said in MangoCon 2019:
@jmoore said in MangoCon 2019:
What site is this so I can look up train rides?
Just use Amtrak's own website. It'll give you all the details.
Short runs are generally good for Amtrak.
Longer runs are only good if you happen to be able to have a straight path.
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@jaredbusch said in MangoCon 2019:
@scottalanmiller said in MangoCon 2019:
@jmoore said in MangoCon 2019:
What site is this so I can look up train rides?
Just use Amtrak's own website. It'll give you all the details.
Short runs are generally good for Amtrak.
Longer runs are only good if you happen to be able to have a straight path.
... and don't cross a "holding city." Dallas to San Antonio should be super perfect, yet south of Austin is a "holding city" where the train stops and sits for half a day before continuing on to San Antonio. Totally ruins what could be the one really good train route in the state.
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@jmoore Takes a bit longer, but if you continue all the way to DAL instead of FTW, you can just take the DART directly from Union Station to Trinity Mills and not have to worry about the TRE transfer. Same price.
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Looks like a train from Atlanta is not the preferred travel method...
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@rojoloco said in MangoCon 2019:
Looks like a train from Atlanta is not the preferred travel method...
That's because no train goes between them. You have to take a train to a bus and/or go 50% farther because the train from Atlanta goes through Houston and on to San Antonio. Then a different train from San Antonio to Ft. Worth to Dallas. You literally spiral around your destination. It's terrible that there is no connector across norther LA.
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@scottalanmiller said in MangoCon 2019:
@rojoloco said in MangoCon 2019:
Looks like a train from Atlanta is not the preferred travel method...
That's because no train goes between them. You have to take a train to a bus and/or go 50% farther because the train from Atlanta goes through Houston and on to San Antonio. Then a different train from San Antonio to Ft. Worth to Dallas. You literally spiral around your destination. It's terrible that there is no connector across norther LA.
I feel that way about the CHI to NYC run. Delays and transfers in Albany kill the Lakeshore run.
The other choice is to take the Capitol run and transfer in Pittsburgh, or DC.
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@jaredbusch said in MangoCon 2019:
@scottalanmiller said in MangoCon 2019:
@rojoloco said in MangoCon 2019:
Looks like a train from Atlanta is not the preferred travel method...
That's because no train goes between them. You have to take a train to a bus and/or go 50% farther because the train from Atlanta goes through Houston and on to San Antonio. Then a different train from San Antonio to Ft. Worth to Dallas. You literally spiral around your destination. It's terrible that there is no connector across norther LA.
I feel that way about the CHI to NYC run. Delays and transfers in Albany kill the Lakeshore run.
The other choice is to take the Capitol run and transfer in Pittsburgh, or DC.
No commuter rail in the southern tier... it kind of sucks.
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