Can you use cell phones on trains?

"Quick" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> Bob the Printer wrote:
>> What's this got to do with VZW???
>>
>> It seems to be an ongoing conversation between you and
>> one or two others that would be better taken to regular
>> Email. Seems like all you want to do is demonstrate your
>> superior knowledge of trains, which is a big bore for
>> most of us!
>
> ummm, the original question was "can you use cell phones
> on trains"... when you consider it's a very small leap to "can
> you use cell phones in cars" how exciting did you really
> expect this thread to be? And I don't think anyone is trying
> to demonstrate their superior knowledge but to share a
> bit of (pretty much lost) American heritage.

I have no problem with discussing use of cellphones on trains,
but a discussion of trains is just too far off-topic for this newsgroup.

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"Bob the Printer" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> What's this got to do with VZW???
>
> It seems to be an ongoing conversation between you and one or two
> others that would be better taken to regular Email. Seems like all you
> want to do is demonstrate your superior knowledge of trains, which is
> a big bore for most of us!
>
>
>

They're trying to find a place to put the multiband, multimode train
repeaters, of course!

Every car will have them. They'll even let Nextel customers have
service....

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Larry

"Quick" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

> ummm, the original question was "can you use cell phones
> on trains"... when you consider it's a very small leap to "can
> you use cell phones in cars" how exciting did you really
> expect this thread to be? And I don't think anyone is trying
> to demonstrate their superior knowledge but to share a
> bit of (pretty much lost) American heritage.

That's true, but your conversation with the OP has degraded to simply
conversation about different types of train cars, etc, with nothing actually
pertaining to use of cell phones on trains!

Bob the Printer wrote:

> Seems like all you want to do
> is demonstrate your superior knowledge of trains, which is a big bore for
> most of us!

I thinks its pretty darn interesting.

"DecTxCowboy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Bob the Printer wrote:
>
>> Seems like all you want to do is demonstrate your superior knowledge of
>> trains, which is a big bore for most of us!
>
> I thinks its pretty darn interesting.

In another forum.

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:42:57 GMT, "Quick" <[email protected]>
chose to add this to the great equation of life, the universe, and
everything:

>Bob the Printer wrote:
>> What's this got to do with VZW???
>>
>> It seems to be an ongoing conversation between you and
>> one or two others that would be better taken to regular
>> Email. Seems like all you want to do is demonstrate your
>> superior knowledge of trains, which is a big bore for
>> most of us!

So don't read it.

>ummm, the original question was "can you use cell phones
>on trains"... when you consider it's a very small leap to "can
>you use cell phones in cars" how exciting did you really
>expect this thread to be? And I don't think anyone is trying
>to demonstrate their superior knowledge but to share a
>bit of (pretty much lost) American heritage.

Thanks for the compliment, but actually I've been worrying myself that this
thread had drifted too far off topic. To put it back on topic (but take it
away from what I've been talking about), I can report that when I rode a
steam excursion train last year, partially on but mostly off of Amtrak
routes, I always had a signal, although I'm not sure it was always useable.
Running up the west bank of the Mississippi from Dubuque, IA, to La
Crescent, MN (across the river from La Crosse, WI), I mostly had a weak
analog roaming signal which I never tried to use. On the bus back to
Dubuque, we were in Wisconsin all the way and I had a pretty solid 1x from
US Cellular, which switched to VZW near the Illinois border.

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