(Source: Virginian Pilot, December 13, 2012)
ABOARD an AMTRAK TRAIN — Amtrak supporters gush about how the train is such a great way to avoid traffic. Here’s another way: Hit the road at 4 a.m. It was all open road but for two vehicles in the distance as I crossed the Downtown Tunnel from Portsmouth to Norfolk three hours before sunrise Wednesday. The reason: to catch the first passenger train out of Norfolk since 1977.
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