From: "Kenneth Lin" <kenneth.lin@worldnet.att.net> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 7:08 PM > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Roger & Amanda La France" <lafrance@verizon.net> > <snip> > > Travelers will be able to > > transfer easily between Amtrak's northeast rail service in four major > cities > > to air service via Continental Airlines at Newark International Airport > > under the landmark agreement. <snip> > > Oh, how soon they forget! This is NOT the first air/rail codeshare in the > United States. > > Once upon a time Amtrak had a codeshare with Midway Airlines to Atlantic > City from Philadelphia International Airport. > > If one wants to go even further back in time TWA used to have a railroad > code share of sorts with one of the railroads-- fly during the day, sleep in > a sleeper at night. > TAT (Transcontinental Air Transport) Ford trimotors flew from New York (where was that airport then?) to Port Columbus (CMH) Ohio, where the Pennsylvania Railroad opened a station across the road from the airport terminal building. Passengers took the "Spirit of St. Louis"(a train) to somewhere in Kansas (not Atchison), where Western Air Express took them off by air to Albuquerque NM. They then boarded a Santa Fe train to Los Angeles, making it across the continent in about 48 hours. All rail took about twice that time. The railroad station at CMH is long gone, but the original terminal building, with a little control tower on top of it, still stands at the southeast corner of the field. Pictures taken there in 1939 (after Douglas's took over the whole way across the country) are on Airliners. Gerry K8EF http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley/ http://www.geocities.com/gerryf.geo/eclipseindex.html http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html