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November/December 2001 Dennis Moriarty/Editor Volume 10 Number 6 Meetings Are Held at 7:30 PM on the 1St Thursday of the Month at the Central SC Library The CRM&HA Newsletter November/December 2001 Dennis Moriarty/Editor Volume 10 Number 6 Meetings are held at 7:30 PM on the 1st Thursday of the month at the Central SC Library Reminder: The Meetings have been changed to the First Thursday of the Month. November 1st and December 6th. The December Meeting will be a Christmas Party. Editorial The December meeting will be a Christmas Party. By Dennis Moriarty Please bring a finger food to pass and if you would like A big thanks to Bob Hanson who arranged and to all to be in the gift exchange please bring a RR related gift whom helped provide food etc. at our September or a RR White Elephant per person. Please wrap your picnic. It was fantastic. gift. You may bring something other than finger food Please call Bob Hanson or Bill Hughes if you can but if you do please provide paper plates, forks etc. help with the train show on February 16, 2002 at the with it. The meeting will be at the Central Library. Seneca N.G. Armory, as all members will be needed to help make it a success. It was brought up at the last CEO’s Corner meeting that because of the September 11th attacks on By Rob Seel the Pentagon and WTC all NGA’s have been closed to The following is the first installment of a serial article the public. Since we are not sure if the Armory will be that will appear in this newsletter over the next several opened again in February a search for an alternate site issues. This series will consist of edited excerpts from is underway. the travelogue of my two-day, three-night journey to Please call Howard Garner at 878-4705 if there is Washington, DC. In the spirit of the CRM&HA, I will anyway you can help with the SEC convention. only include the trains-related stuff here. However, if Remember the nominations for next year’s officers any of you would like to read the whole twenty-or-so will be at the November meeting and the election will page novella, including facts and opinions on national be held at the December meeting. Contact Rob Seel if monuments, motel chains, eating in Italian you are interested in running for office. This year the delicatessens, and life in general from a traveler's Club Engineer (President and CEO) and, HO and N perspective, then please let me know and I'll print it out scale Division Superintendents are up for election. for you. Or if you'd like, I can e-mail the story If you received a snail mail issue of the newsletter and in "chapters." I hope you enjoy it! have an E-Mail address, please send your E-Mail Rob Goes to Washington, Part 1 address to me. I am a Railfan. And a Model Railroader. And an Please support the newsletter by submitting articles, Architect. A certified Microferroequinologist. On my news and or information. If you don’t wish to write own and as part of the CRM&HA I promote the model please give me a phone call. E-Mail, copy on disk and railroading hobby, discuss railroad history, promote written contributions are most appreciated. My address public safety and respect for trains, support is Dennis Moriarty, 519 Beacon Shores Drive, Seneca, preservation efforts, and stop the car whenever I see SC 29672. Phone 864-888-2332. E-Mail MQK @ crossing signals flash. Because of my interests I carol.net.Thank you! attended the Upstate Rail Summit 2000 last year in Thank you, Rob Seel, Howard Garner, Ralph Milz, Greenville to learn more about commuter rail and Mike Moore for your contributions this month. transportation in the Carolinas. It was at this morning Thank you! conference that I learned more about ideas for regional We wish to thank Clarence Harold of Realty transportation, including high-speed rail. ―Sign me up, Executives in Seneca for printing our newsletter at no and let me know what I can do,‖ I told a few key people cost to the club. 888-8225 there. About 2 months ago, I received a letter from the Christmas Party Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce to attend a conference in Washington, DC in hopes of bringing which, by the way, means ―a‖ seat on ―the‖ train – not high-speed passenger rail service to the Southeast. I one specifically set aside for you. was to accompany other business leaders from A few days passed, and the Big Event was drawing Greenville and similar groups from other southeastern nearer. Then, I got another voice-mail at the office cities from Hampton-Roads, VA to Birmingham, AL. from the Greenville Chamber. In light of the terrorist We were to attend a morning conference, a luncheon attacks of September 11, 2001 the conference was seminar, a cocktail reception at Union Station, and visit canceled. Sure, I understand that Congress has better with our Congressmen. This was to take place on things to do right now than to listen to us about train Tuesday evening and Wednesday, September 25-26, travel. Now would you think that Amtrak would be 2001. accommodating, since I was to be traveling in THEIR In planning my trip I spoke with our group’s interest, and refund my fare for a possible future date? coordinator about who else would be going and how Nope! That 30th Anniversary fare was non-refundable, they plan to travel, and where they would they be and I was stuck with it. So, I rescheduled my travel and lodging. When he started talking about airline tickets motel room back to the original date and saved the $30 from Greenville to Reagan National. I quickly, and a surcharge. Days Inn? No problem, no extra charge. tad irately, asked, ―Isn’t anyone going to take THE But Days Inn also knows that there is Econo Lodge TRAIN? You know, the Crescent that runs from New across the street! Washington, DC is on security alert, Orleans to New York stops in Greenville and the USA has declared war on terrorists everywhere, Washington.‖ Duh! Of course! If we are going to ask and I’m going site-seeing! If something bad happens Congress to help pay for passenger trains, why not ride to me, you can bet George Warrington (Amtrak one up? So, I went to Amtrak’s website and got my president) is going to hear about it! round-trip ticket. I even got a 30%-off, 30th Anniversary On Tuesday, September 25th, after working a special fare: $100.08 from Clemson to DC. I also somewhat full day at the office, I boarded the north- found a Days Inn in South Alexandria, VA near the bound Crescent in Clemson around 10:20 PM — close Huntington Metro station, and got a special business enough to say ―on time.‖ I still couldn’t believe I was travelers’ room rate of $59 plus taxes. doing this. I had been away by myself before, but The very same Friday I received my Amtrak tickets in usually to visit family or friends or to go to a conference the mail, I got a phone call from the Chamber of with the office. But I had never been on an intercity Commerce. It seems that the Greater Atlanta train before in this country, and then to go sight seeing Chamber, who organized the events, made a mistake and stay in a motel by myself (since traveling Europe in scheduling the conference for the day Congress was during graduate school) was a strange concept. Elaine scheduled to recess. When we were to be gathering in and Julie were at home in bed, while our neighbor Washington, there would be no Congressmen there for house-sat. Frances took me to the newly ―restored‖ us to talk to about the purpose of our trip! A flurry of Clemson depot with its completely fictitious ―circus‖ last minute mending and rescheduling ensued, and I paint scheme, where I visited for a while with Jack waited patiently (a-hem) for what was REALLY going to Oker, the acting ―stationmaster.‖ My seat, #6 on car happen in two weeks. The next Monday I got word that 25025, was an aisle seat next to an empty window seat the conference was rescheduled for the day before. with a pillow and a New Orleans newspaper. The card Everything was to move ―up‖ one day. I got on the above the seat said this person was traveling all the phone and changed my motel reservation to the day way to New York City. The guy was, I guess, up in the BEFORE I was supposed to arrive. No problem, same lounge car because I barley saw him during the trip. rate. Amtrak, however, was less understanding and But when I did see him, if you know anything about told me that they would change my travel dates, but I stereotypes, he appeared to be the definitive Jewish would have to pay the Conductor an additional $30 computer geek. We did not talk though — by the time once I got on board. I was not pleased with this. we ―met‖ I was already half asleep. Particularly since this is an over-night train that is The seats in the coach were little different from airline usually half-empty. There went my 30%-off discount. seats in comfort, but maybe not as cushy. But, they But at least I did not have a sleeping car reservation – were spaced about six feet back-to-back so there was who knows what THAT would have cost to change.
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