On 10-06-97 BOB WALLACE wrote to KEN FREEMAN... 
 
 BW> Between at least two organizations in the Pacific Northwest, Amtrak 
 BW> has 
 BW> been running chartered trips for both the Historical Society based in 
 BW> Portland, Oregon  
  and another 
 BW> with 
 BW> a travel agency in Seattle just last May that my wife and I jumped at 
 BW> the chance to ride on. Add to it the occasional football special here 
 BW> in 
 BW> the San Francisco Bay area 
  Other than these, any 
 BW> other sort of chartered train trip will be few and far between. 
 Well, given the financial problems of Amtrak, my guess is that if they can  
 make an excursion make money, they'll do it. The Bill's Special ran it's 
first 
 on August 31 (just got the lowdown on it) and they ran from Albany to 
Buffalo 
 with 6 ConnDot coaches, four Amfleet coaches and two cafe cars. I don't know 
 
 how many riders one car can hold, but I'll bet the trip, unlike Bill's games 
 this year, was a sellout.  
  
  
  
  Unless 
 BW> the U.P. chooses to start doing public relations in a positive way now 
 BW> that they own most of the tracks here in California since taking over 
 BW> the former Southern Pacific late last year 
Well, UP's probably got the best PR department of the class 1's.  
                                       K 
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