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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Vogon_Glory

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3. Those were magnificent machines. I'm grateful for being able to see them

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Nov 25, 2022, 05:34 PM

Nov 2022

and then ride behind them as a college kid after I belatedly figured out that I didn't have to take the bus from Providence to Manhattan, I could take Amtrak instead.

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Those were magnificent machines. I'm grateful for being able to see them Vogon_Glory Nov 2022 #3