Amtrak ends charter rides. Did you know that you can hitch your own train cars to an Amtrak train? Granted, not many among us have privately-owned rail cars, a novelty for the richest among us, but some do. Anyways, this practice, the Wall Street Journal reports, is going bye-bye:
This reminds me of one of the more prolific and well known Amtrak charter users, Ty Robbins. His car is known as Navy 118. I only know of this story through a family friend, who worked one summer on his car as a chef. When he was stationed at the Pentagon in the late 1970s, he lived in his train car on the edge of the Pentagon’s expansive parking lot. Here’s how the Washington Post covered it:
Pretty neat, huh? Here’s how the Associated Press covered it, as depicted in the Detroit Free Press in 1978:
Well, Mr. Robbins’s charter days are over, but at least he can hitch on regular routes. And it’s not like Amtrak doesn’t run any unprofitable or nonsensical routes.
Will lawsuits kill conspiratorial fake news? That’s what Oliver Darcy wonders in a worthwhile item at CNN. Meanwhile, at the Daily Beast, Betsy Woodruff reports that Alex Jones is getting sued:
Good for Fontaine.
A remote landing. For the first time, the U.S. Navy remotely landed an F/A-18 on an aircraft carrier. Next stop, robot planes. Skynet continues apace.
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