Bar Car on Metro North - Trains Magazine
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August 2003 - From: Antioch, IL
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TheAntiGates wrote:
Pretty bad when a guy can't even go an hour's trainride with out a drink in his hand. Especially on a commuter line.
Great, show up on the job with a couple fresh snorts under the old belt, ready for work.. I guess that way at least the hard cases might be able to last till lunch before the shakes take over again.
OK, let me explain. It's coffee in, hootch out.
It's been common for people to set up in Metra stations during the morning selling coffee, pastry, newspapers, etc. I've seen large thermoses on a bench, catering trucks, etc. Sometimes, this got formalized into an actual "place of business" in the station.
Again, I no longer ride Metra - so I don't know if there's been a "crack down" on these informal business operations.
If you buy the alcohol, you buy it going home, not going into work. Of course, this does mean that people are getting in their cars at the station after having consumed alcohol. But that's a bigger issue. In any event, I have never seen a comuter train "bar car" selling alcohol in the morning.
"By many measures, the U.S. freight rail system is the safest, most efficient and cost effective in the world." - Federal Railroad Administration, October, 2009. I'm just your average, everyday, uncivilized howling "anti-government" critic of mass government expenditures for "High Speed Rail" in the US. And I'm gosh darn proud of that.
