Amtrak is (not) a Timelord.
I’m writing this on the Amtrak Empire train service, zooming along the Hudson River, and an announcement said the next station, Rhinecliff, would be in 15 minutes. Friends, unless you are on the run from the law, you cannot drive from Poughkeepsie to Rhinecliff in 15 minutes. And even then, it would take 20 minutes at the very least. If I were to keep going on this line, eventually I’d reach Montreal, and this is where time gets wibbly wobbly. If it takes Amtrak less than half the time it takes to drive to Rhinecliff, how long should it take to go from Poughkeepsie to Montreal? (I promise, this is not one of those gotcha math word problems from grade school.) From Poughkeepsie NY, across the Canadian border, in a car, it takes approximately 4 hours to drive. Amtrak should, therefore take 2, maybe 3, hours to travel the same-ish distance right? HA It takes TEN (10) hours to go by train. There is a FOUR HOUR span of time between the last station in New York, Rouses Po
