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Here's the PDX to SEA line-up for Sunday, May 19th as of Wednesday night. 0645 AT $37/$87 0700 FB $30 0820 AT $42/$87 0830 FB $31 1040 FB $32 1040 AT $66/SO 1200 FB $32 1410 AT $66/SO 1500 FB $33 1556 AT $50/--/$272 1755 AT $47/$72 1910 FB $33 1925 AT $37/$87 2115 FB $33 And here's PDX to SPK...

If it's just for a study, it can be done by plowing through the internet with dummy itinerary searches. It's slow, because some trips are less than daily. For the reports here, I just show PDX<>SPK as a sample of what is going on east-west. You're right about east-west service being skimpy...

I checked and Wanderu is not showing the night bus run by Northwestern, only the daylight trip which is listed as Amtrak Thruway service. The night bus does show in the Flix/Greyhound reservation system. In the process of checking this, I discovered that Amtrak was showing the daylight bus for...

I've seen the Aurora from a CN bedroom north of Lake Superior.

For many, many years, UP457 carried the Oakland sleepers from Portland to Seattle and NP408 brought them back. That service ended in late 1965 or early 1966. There was a pool of sleepers painted in SP colors, but lettered for Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, and Northern Pacific. The two...

These are private bus companies, not transit agencies. Seattle to Spokane is run by Flixbus and Northwestern Stages. Flix feeds their info to Google, but the only Northwestern info comes via Amtrak Thruway. So, the night Seattle <> Spokane bus does not show in Google.

I am on their e-mail list since 2022 and the only weather-related disruptions that they've sent out notices on was flooding around the docks caused by the excessive rain when an atmospheric river dumped on California. That was with the San Francisco Bay Ferries. Larkspur and Sausalito are...

Given the service reductions, they had time to work on it.

The upstairs bar has been used by the volunteer guides. If it wasn't there, I'm sure that they could work something out. It's been a surprise that it is not used for a second attendant on the Winter Park Express. A lot of sales are missed due to the line downstairs.

Thanx! Something that All Aboard Washington ought to do is to get the night Tacoma/Seattle <> Spokane bus run by Northwestern into the Amtrak Thruway system. It's already doing every darn thing needed, except for the paperwork. (Evergreen's daylight bus via Wenatchee is in the Thruway...

That may have played a part, but local bus service was the main issue. The creation of RTD did include Weld County, and that's how Greeley ended up with a local bus system. The antis wanted out of the new district, but there were people in Greeley-Evans who wanted local bus service, so a...

Here's the PDX to SEA line-up for Sunday, May 12th as of Wednesday night. 0645 AT $37/$87 0700 FB $30 0820 AT $59/SO 0830 FB $31 1040 FB $33 1040 AT $59/SO 1200 FB $32 1410 AT $66/SO 1500 FB $34 1556 AT $59--/$249 1755 AT $53/SO 1910 FB $45 1925 AT $47/$87 2115 FB $33 And here's PDX to SPK...

Larimer County's non-interest in joining RTD was because it already had a muni system in Fort Collins and subsequently one was set up in Loveland. We've had good relations with them, as far as I know. The Front Range District is an overlap to run intercity service, with boundaries stretching...

ColoRail reports on the end of the legislative session. State passenger rail gets new fees money Colorado legislature approves first continuous financing for transit In early May the Colorado Legislature passed two bills that will raise more than $160 million annually...

Yes, regarding the "Pioneer" connection having been removed. They did that when they added a head-on connection from the Brooklyn (SP) Yard to the Sullivan's Gulch Line. The cost of reinstating it was included in the 2009 PRIIA "study." That area was controlled by the UP East Portland Tower...