The Phillies took a charter train to the World Series in New York, just like in 1950:
The reason for the train was neither historical novelty nor an exercise in team building in advance of the World Series, which begins Wednesday at Yankee Stadium. It was pure convenience. The distance between Philadelphia and New York is too short for a flight, and a fleet of buses traveling up the New Jersey Turnpike could spend as much time on the approach to the Lincoln Tunnel as the entire train ride.
I used to ride the train quite a bit in college. It was the easiest way to go from Boston to Bridgeport. I always met interesting poeple on the ride.
Posted by David Pinto at 9:46 pm | World Series | Permalink | 2 Comments
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October 27th, 2009 @ 10:18 am
Actually, I’m pretty sure you can take a flight from Philly to NYC and vice versa, but all in all, yes, this is one of the few instances in America where the train really does make more sense than flying or driving. Both stations are right in the middle of downtown, making the trip to the hotel a short one, and the ride is no more than an hour, give or take. As far as I know, teams in all four sports from Boston to Washington have been using the train to travel in that corridor to some greater or lesser degree for several years now.
October 27th, 2009 @ 11:15 am
Flying makes no sense, but I wondered if the two teams would use a train or a bus to get back and forth between the two cities.
The bus offers more privacy, but would probably take longer. There is that horrible bottleneck on the New Jersey side of the Hudson bridges and tunnels.