Burt Reynolds was cool, Trans Ams were cool until Smokey and The Bandit. It's not his fault, that's one of the darkest eras for American automobile manufacturing. Times have changed and perhaps reviving the Pontiac brand and building a modern Trans Am would work. The car was named after a race series from the '60s where "stock" cars competed on road courses all over the country. Then you can build a hyper car and and call it the Can Am, another race series from back then with almost no rules for purpose built race cars, there were cars that had huge literal vacuums to hold them onto the track. It was a different time.
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Worst thing ever for NE railroading. CSX purchased what right-of-way remained and have invested heavily in long-deferred maintenance.
As for “why,” I’m it was a complete joke from a consumer perspective. Mom flew a couple times between BOS and HPN, or tried to. She never was able to make a round trip, so it was drive the 16 hour RT to get her home and the last time was the final straw. It wasn’t reliable enough to book ex them
All I ever see Eastern doing today is flights for ICE. Curious how much other business they actually have.