Recent content by Amtrak25

When I rode it in 2016, the back half was the Senneterre section. The Montreal engineer runs through to Jonquire.

The line is mostly welded rail - without anchors. That's the problem. Stick rail is only Rouses to Cantic, and some in two segments around Brossard and Castle Shannon. 7 freights a week to Vermont, 3 a week to NY, which are basically NS haulage runs between CN and NS on the southern tier...

With trip truncated to Saratoga, they called it a "schedule change". No hint of a partial refund for a shortened trip, never mind that Amtrak is so stupid to think we would all call Uber or find a bus to take from there to Montreal, not cancel the whole thing. Go look for a Montreal...

There is a complete lack of transparency, lack of public announcements, and lack of passenger advisories on what is going on with CN trackage, what is the timeframe, whose money is involved, and why the misleading 6 weeks rhetoric that is now 16 or 18 weeks.

Don't even think of taking 69 stub train to Albany or Saratoga and transfer to experience more train / less bus. Not only would it cost more, but last year's 69 for me was delayed with mechanical problems for nearly 2 hours leaving NYP, 10 minutes ahead of 281. The Gate Dragons evidently hadn't...

I did the callback thing. They predicted 30 minutes. It was 45. No problem getting it back. Before that, I reserved a trip on Adirondack Trailways on an 11:40am bus. It costs $79.99. Amtrak and State DOT has been totally secretive about the deal they made with CN, whose money was involved, how...

My July trip was truncated to Saratoga. I left a callback number to cancel the whole thing. I am not transferring from train to Trailways, but will take Trailways from NY

Is this service restructuring an indicator of closing down one of the East River tunnel lines for 18 months of rebuilding ?

The people showing up for 1340 would unlikely all fit on #8

How would white vinegar perform ? It streaks quite a bit on my car windows, which is different than FRA Lexan ?

Amtrak put up those percentages so that people could avoid crowded conditions during Covid. With the pandemic gone, so is that feature. Amtrak gets a juvenile sense of power and authority with obfuscation of information, whether it be load factors, timetables, laziness in posting Twitter...

Not walking distance, and I don't know a thing about Joliet. Naperville has a commercial strip of numerous hotels, which can be gotten to by a PACE bus or taxi northeast of the railroad. You can also backtrack on Metra to Aurora where there's a hotel adjacent to that station. For Glenview...

I would not risk eastbound same day Chicago connections off a trans-con at all. We are beyond that day and age, between Class I PSR, derailments, and Amtrak's broken down loco fleet - old and new. Get off at places like Joliet, Naperville, and Glenview, stay in a suburban motel, and take Metra...

ConnectUS countdown clock reduces federal subsidies 20% a year until it is gone. That's why 95% of it is going nowhere. In 2009, 3 Red State governors threw Obama's HSR money right back at him. New York, Vermont, and Maine benefiited. Nothing has changed.

The Port has always been against it and likely owns the District 5 Councilman. Multi-state 403b trains all failed rather quickly, been the case since 1972, the state in the middle often being the culprit if allowed to be, though New Hampshire pays nothing for Downeaster service even though...