FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Following Amtrak’s announcement in March concerning charter trips and passenger cars, the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society made the decision to delay ticket sales for The Joliet Rocket in order to reassess and rec…
Did anyone see this ( Amtrak decision) coming at all. I don’t think so. This could become quite difficult.
I have a bone to pick with people that would put up a subject line like “[Fort Wayne] to offer ‘Joliet Rocket’ tickets in May” as of today, many days after the announced Amtrak ban on charter moves.
The plain English interpretation, let alone the rhetorical interpretation, of that language would be that some arrangement was reached that would allow the tickets to be sold in May. This of course gets those of us not sufficiently experienced in the clickthrough-generating ways of the Newswire people to click on the item with excitement about how the issue was resolved. Only to find, of course, that nothing is new except our being fooled again.
Something the Newswire has yet to report on is the ‘clarification’ apparently issued by Gardner about how PV and charter moves are being considered going forward. From a very recent post in a thread on RyPN:
To which Kelly Lynch, a person relevant to this thread topic, noted that most steam excursions in