On 7/7/2020 5:05 PM, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
> Yeah, but you'd need to modify that a bit of liners.....
>
> One variation:
>
> Your 'spine-liner' has crew quarters (bridge and engineering crews,
> nav/helm), reactor, jump drives, limited maneuver drives.
>
> Cargo modules for the 'liner' would include:
> a) Stateroom pod (high or mid)
> b) Low berth pod
> c) Common area pods
>       - many variations, depending on fair class and how fancy the trip was
>               - dining pod
>               - entertainment pods
>               - library pod
>               - commercial pod (so you could shop)
> d) Crew pod (for stewards, security, a medic, plus galley, sick bay, etc)
> e) For smaller ships, a full hospitality pod (staterooms, galley, etc
> with one steward/medic embarked with the passengers)

(snip)

Sounds a bit like the Amtrak long-distance passenger trains.  Do other
countries have equivalents?

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