Why trains run slower now than they did in the 1920s. - By Tom Vanderbilt - Slate Magazine
by karlcow
aaaah ce pays de progrès.The aforementioned Montreal Limited, for example, circa 1942, would pull out of New York's Grand Central Station at 11:15 p.m., arriving at Montreal's (now defunct) Windsor Station at 8:25 a.m., a little more than nine hours later. To make that journey today, from New York's Penn Station on the Adirondack, requires a nearly 12-hour ride.
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