Recent content by Everydaymatters

Bring back the Crew Chiefs. It's as simple as that.

About the name you chose for this post, a long time ago a friend gave me a Jose Cuervo travel blanket. Apparently he got it as a freebee for drinking too much. Anyhow, if you see a lady with a bright yellow rolled up travel blanket with a Jose Cuervo patch on the corner, that's me!

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That's terrific! I wonder how many of those trips were in coach.

IIRC it was 1993, in Cary, Illinois, a school bus was on the tracks stopped at a red light. Sadly, now they call it Seven Angels Crossing.

Rail service is long overdue for this route. IIRC at one time Amtrak had plans to Huntley and beyond.

After a cruise from and back to Vancouver, I was on what was supposed to be a "sealed" bus back to Seattle. The border inspection was a joke. The border guard got on, told everyone to hold their passports up, walked half way down the aisle and got off.

The next time you are on the expressway into Chicago, take a look at the McDonalds up on the overpass. That is on land that was bought by eminent domain. Well, maybe because is isn't technically "land", it was given a pass.

That was a nice trip report, Bill. It brought me back to when I traveled across Canada several years ago, except that there were no fires back then.

The people I meet are the best part of taking the train. The people I have met on the train, in the depot, and on this forum are awesome. Secondary is the scenery. I love watching the land change from farms to plains to deserts to mountains to cities. I even enjoy the crazy things that...

Yesterday my daughter and I drove the highway along old Route 66 to Pontiac, Illinois. It had had several side roads to the farms off the highway the last time I was there a couple of years ago. At that time the side roads had the familiar old white signs with black letters. Now, because of...

It sounds claustrophobic. Also, what about air circulation? I do not think I would like it.

I have taken it multiple times from BNL to CHI, but only twice from BNL to STL. I don't recall any freights.

...has anyone noticed the fences they put along these high-speed tracks? Really nice! Wish I had them in my yard. Back to the hi speed taking so long and the pessimism, it was long ago that there was a presentation in BLN about the hi speed train. Finally there was an announcement that there...

The only time I have seen a TA clean the bathroom in coach was when a toilet was overflowing. For years I rode in coach, and then years in sleepers. I am rarely able to travel now and when I do, I am in coach. The sink is always wet. I have found that after I clean up the sink area, other...