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Most coach passengers on US domestic flights don't get meals included in the fare, and there are limited options for sale. But they still serve food on intercontinental flights. Here's an example from my 2017 trip to China on United Airlines: This was lunch/dinner out of Dulles. I think...

https://www.bayjournal.com/news/pollution/not-so-fast-maryland-high-speed-train-project-hits-skids/article_332ae686-fdbf-11ee-ae7a-8bb4a47e0084.html Not only has FRA stopped doing studies on this boondoggle, the company (Northeast Maglev) itself pulled their application for a water quality...

I think the RIP for commuter travel as a result of the pandemic is a bit premature. My train to Washington lefy at about 0850, which meant I had to drive in the height of the rush hour. A year or two ago, there was no rush hour. Today, it took me a half hour for a drive that usually takes 15...

So I'm driving to the station this morning, and I get a text from Amtrak advising me of reduced speeds on my 9 AM trip Baltimore to DC due to heat restrictions. I looked at the outside temperature display on my dashboard, and the temperature as 67 F! A little cool for heat restrictions, I would...

Here's a gem from 2008 form the Amtrak OIG site: https://amtrakoig.gov/sites/default/files/reports/E-08-02-042208.PDF Overall Conclusions After examining a representative sample of European Passenger Train Operations over a multi-year period, we found that: a) When all revenues and...

My daughter and I are up in Boston, taking care of some business. We rode up on a Northeast Regional which was fine, except that it was slow compared to the Acela. When we got to South Station, we went down to the T and bought aa few subway rides for each of us. The plan was to ride to Park...

So I was channel surfing late last night and I see that my cable provider offers NHK World, the international channel of Japan's public broadcaster. Well, what do you know, they have a program about trains! This was the one I saw: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/2049139/...

Got to take a sneak peak at the auto show this evening as part of an SAE conference. The new cars were meh, though I'm glad to see that Toyota is bow making the Corolla Cross in a hybrid, even if it is 2 years late for me. But the antiques are always fun to look at. 1954 Corvette 1962...

Last week attended the Transportation Research Board annual meeting in Washington. This is a group organized by the National Academies or Science, Engineering and Medicine to provide coordinate research on transportation matters and runs advisory committees to provide expert input to...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/there-is-no-good-way-to-travel-anywhere-in-america/ar-AA1khJto?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=5204e30682664a50933d3d0c64499606&ei=49 The article is mostly about Amtrak, and why the author prefers to travel by Amtrak, despite everything. I was a little disappointed...

Just saw on the news that the Baltimore light rail has been shut down until they can fix the LRVs so that they don't blow up. Something about "high voltage conduit." Apparently there was an explosion last October, which makes you wonder why they waited over a month to do something.

At least this one happened before the plane got in the air...

I have some business in DC today, and as I was walking past 17th and K Sts. NW, I remembered that there used to be an Amtrak ticket office on the 1700 block of K St. In fact. back in the 1980s I did some business there, changing some tickets. It was next to an American Airlines downtown ticket...

Well, we're off, but I'm not sure the engineer knows the direction. We pulled out of Union Station going southwest, then looped up north. Somwhere around Vaughn, we stopped dead, and now we're reversing, as it seems maybe someone didn't throw the right switch. I had a little excitement...

Off to the Great White North! I'm now rolling along in Northeast Regional 164 on the first leg of my Canadian Circle trip. Changing trains in New York for a ride up the Hudson Valley on the Ethan Allen Express, and then spending the night in Albany. Omorrow morning it's the Maple Leaf to...

I have a whole day layover in Toronto, and I am considering the possibility of sampling the VIA Toronto - Montreal corridor service for at least part of the day. According to the timetable on the RPA website, it seems that there's am 8:32 AM departure from Toronto (#52/62) that stops in Oshawa...

https://www.amtraktrains.com/threads/boston-montreal-new-rail-alignment.86005/#post-1019387 Aside from the political problems of eliminating a popular rail trail, there may be other reasons why restoring rail service on abandoned lines might not always be the best thing to do to restore rail...

https://www.wmata.com/about/news/Red-Line-Construction.cfm Basically it's between Judiciary Square and Farragut North and includes shutting down Gallery Place and Metro Center, the two stations that connect the Red Line with the rest of the system. The reasoning is that the period over the...

As part of my Canadian trip, I am riding the Maple Leaf to Toronto on November 6. The ticket is actually in two parts: Amtrak train 63 from Albany to the Candian Border and Via Rail train 98 (also listed as Thruway 7098) from the Canadian Border to Toronto. Today I got an email with the...

Given all the horror stories we hear about long-distance trains being cancelled or arriving more than 6-8 hours late, would it be possible to use the various tracker databases to generate a summary of each long-distance train's recent history of cancellations or other disruptions? It sure seems...