Recent content by alanh

They used to just say the train would be 1 hour late after the time change. Using a unique schedule allows them to put the correct times in the schedule. Barring late trains of course.

Is it grade or curves? Steeper grades also tend to have curves.

And there was scheduled helicopter service from LAX to the Disneyland Hotel until two crashes in 1968.

The design is slightly different than a helicopter, but operationally I don't see it being any different.

There are cars that will stop if backed into an object, but the sensors are down on the bumper. The gate arm was snagged up near the top of the tailgate. If it was an auto brake issue the car would have stopped before hitting the gate at all. This doesn't look like a four quadrant gate, I...

Amtrak has the QuikTrak terminals, but there's nothing you can do on them that you can't do on the app or by calling 800-USA-RAIL. You don't need a barcode to board, that just makes it convenient for the conductor. The conductor effectively has all the tickets on their iPhone and just needs to...

Any new tunnel is going to have an escape route. Normally it's twin tubes with fire doors between them, like the Gotthard Base Tunnel. But yes, there are older tunnels that are grandfathered in. The Mont Blanc highway tunnel was built as a single tube 1959-1965. 39 people died in a fire in 1999.

Alcohol is subject to both volume limits and the personal exemption dollar limit. If you're over your dollar limit, all of it would be taxed. If you're not, you get one liter exempt but the rest is taxable regardless of your exemption.

It's been delayed 30 days. But these are so poorly written no one knows what they really mean.

Air traffic has to fly over the Potomac, following its curves. To the NE of DCA is the National Mall (White House, Capitol), to the north is the Naval Observatory (VP residence), and to the NW is the Pentagon.

Possibly wind. The lines were energized when they hit the rails and welded to them. https://www.yahoo.com/news/3-metrolink-lines-orange-riverside-151300224.html

#4 is detouring through the north side of the LA area, bypassing Fullerton and Riverside. Edit: the Metrolink San Bernardino line.

I don't see any notices but #1/#2 is also experiencing cancellations.

They did have a codeshare with Continental from 2002-2021. You could book a connection to Amtrak regional at Newark.

The format of paper tickets was the same as airline tickets because travel agents could issue them, using 2V as the "airline" code. Here's a travel agency issued one. The carrier would get paid through ARC so these were often known as ARC coupons. The travel agent would pay ARC the ticket...