AlexG55 t1_jcyuu5o wrote on March 20, 2023 at 4:40 PM

Reply to comment by Loosh_03062 in What will the future of Vermont ski towns look like? by The_Idealist_Realist

This would have to be a private excursion-charter service like they have in Europe (for instance there's a weekly sleeper from the Netherlands to the Alps in winter which isn't a regular scheduled service and isn't run by a normal operator).

Sadly I think the financial and regulation environment in the US make it impractical to run something like that at a price people would pay.

WinstonAtlas t1_jd62ao8 wrote on March 22, 2023 at 2:13 AM

I think you could justify running extended Empire Corridor train per day past Okemo in the winter, if it wasn’t too expensive to upgrade the tracks. Definitely a limited amount of people to use it and it’s a small resort. But maybe it would grow with a promise of rail service.