by markhb
Pacific 2-3-1 wrote:There's always the ocean liner, UNITED STATES, now sitting in Philadelphia and hoping against hope for restoration!I actually saw her from the air once as I flew into Philadelphia, and I'm still glad I happened to have that opportunity. Unfortunately, as I understand it, she has been stripped so thoroughly that there's probably a better chance of building Supertrain* and terminating that at Dulles than of refitting the SS United States for trans-Atlantic travel.
* - OK, maybe Supertrain without the pool.
"...And then I thought, every time some company creates a more powerful locomotive does Superman become more powerful as well or is he stuck at 1938 locomotive power levels?" - A friend of mine elsewhere
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