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And the buses to Portland aren't handy to the Vancouver train station either. Perhaps bringing a bicycle... One interesting thing to watch is how it will affect Trains 11/14. I expect that some family might find it convenient to use a paid trip one way and a free trip the other. Or will it...

Flix has a compromise version. It only appears when the trip is nearly full. Naturally, the most sophisticated version of this info is the DB's. High demand expected (in red) Medium demand expected Low demand expected https://int.bahn.de/en/booking-information/how-full-is-my-train "The...

Given the work underway and the low volume and the abandoned bus connections, they should have announced that Columbus would be omitted from the new service until things are straightened out.

He didn't directly address the north-south route via Sioux Falls.

Keeping in mind for the early years that there was a border crossing on the Berlin <> Munich route and infrastructure problems. One can see the difference in this table between 1991 and 1992. In the Unity timetable effective 2 Jun 91 till 30 May 92, it was faster to go from Berlin to Munich by...

You've got me on this (as I wasn't in Denver back then). There often have been Denver <> West Coast mail storage cars on the UP, so perhaps there was some sort of disruption on the Overland Route. We mostly would get interline mail and express cars in Portland that came from the Pennsy.

It was an exception when that didn't happen. And then there are places obsessed with wiping things off...

When I made the great western circle trip (DEN>DAV>LAX>SAS>FTW>OKC>NEW>RAT>DEN) the transfer in OKC from late-running Heartland Flyer was quick and the bus made up time smoothly. Passengers in Newton were fairly upbeat, given the time of day.

The third sleeper -- when running DEN<>CHI and sometimes nicknamed the Denver Zephyr -- on the end of the train is numbered 30, or at least it was in 2014 when this photo was taken.

Was the bus actually a special run or was it the regular Burlington Trailways Amtrak Thruway schedule with intermediate stops? I've used that from Denver to Indianapolis. Cleaning a diner takes longer. I've seen SP&S Train 2 head out of Portland with heavyweight diner "Willamette" - complete...

Good reporting! And, I learned some things that might be useful. The observations about the load factors by segment lead to the idea that when we talk about second trains on long-distance routes it might be best to ask first for second trains on high-traffic segments. That saves on capital...

I agree. When I went to Siberia in 2010 I was able to get a well-formatted stop by stop timetable from DB for the entire trip. This made it easy to avoid trains that cut through Kazakhstan when I was booking in the Russian site. Poland's site was also awkward, so I checked some itineraries in...

The ColoRail newsletter is available now in pdf form at: https://www.colorail.org/newsletter-archive Issue #95 includes information on the General Meeting to be held in Boulder on Saturday, June 1st, and on pages 7 & 8 a wrap-up of the successful WPX season. The General Meeting will follow up...

I usually don't check on holidays, but here's the PDX to SEA line-up for Memorial Day Monday, May 27th as of Wednesday night. 0645 AT $27/$86 0700 FB $32 0820 AT $37/SO 0830 FB $32 1040 FB $33 1040 AT $59/SO 1200 FB $33 1410 AT SO/SO 1500 FB $34 1556 AT $66/--/$229 1755 AT $47/$87 1910 FB $33...

By the time I rode it, on my way home from the army, around Labor Day 1971, it was a diverse consist of Northern Lines cars. I know that the leg-rest coach from Chicago was ex-GN, because in the stepwell there was a picture of Rocky, the GN goat, waving and saying, "Welcome Aboard" instead of...