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  1. J

    Train Washing Facilities updates?

    The "Trains" article stated there was to be one in Sanford, but no mention of Lorton. I guess the Auto Train will make a round trip on one wash.
  2. J

    Train Washing Facilities updates?

    Link below to an article on train washing facilities from Trains in July. It mentions that facilities are completed or under construction at Boston, New Orleans, Hialeah, Sanford etc. Can anyone update this with current status...
  3. J

    San Joaquins discussion

    For those of us old enough to remember, Southern Pacific's "Automatic Buffet Cars" didn't die, they just went to sleep for over fifty years. This is a terrible idea. Put the manned "Snack Bars" on the new trains and give the passengers a break.
  4. J

    Ideas for future trains between Florida and Midwest

    Those Indianapolis-Louisville tracks today are too slow to accommodate passenger trains. It is operated by the Louisville and Indiana. I thought that after Kankakee, the "South Wind" and the "James Whitcomb Riley" came down the former "Big Four" tracks from Lafayette to Indianapolis via...
  5. J

    Ideas for future trains between Florida and Midwest

    While no expert, I took the "South Wind" many times between Indianapolis and West Palm Beach. As I recall, the only" slow" stretch was just south of Louisville and I remember cars and trucks passing the train on what was then the "Kentucky Turnpike" now I-65
  6. J

    Amtrak Dining and Cafe Service discussion 2024 H2

    Yes, we are a nation of slobs.
  7. J

    Pennsylvanian (the train(s) and route) discussion

    Seems like a lot of Amtrak's problems with equipment are sitting in Beech Grove.
  8. J

    Pennsylvanian (the train(s) and route) discussion

    That has been the case for over a century. Back on the 1950's the property taxes on the Albany NYC station, not the newer one on the east bank of the Hudson, was almost exactly the same as the support for the Albany airport.
  9. J

    Pennsylvanian (the train(s) and route) discussion

    I look back at history, and the route was at least double tracked. The railroads are getting bitten by decisions to take up second track decades ago. Now it has to go back in.
  10. J

    Texas Eagle discussion H2 2024

    "Flexible Dining" leads me to ask "Flexible for who?".
  11. J

    Adirondack discussion

    Ugh!
  12. J

    Track work at Albany

    Wow, concrete ties!
  13. J

    Modified Amtrak service due to Hurricane Helene

    Sitting here in Sarasota after reading the 8pm advisory, Tampa, except on the bayfront from storm surge, seems ok. ok.
  14. J

    New train (40-41 Floridian) between Miami and Chicago via Washington DC

    Please take a look at both the Traditional Dining and Flex Dining pages. The current "CL" is gone from both. Starvation until November?
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