Recent content by alpha3

Heh. Well said MarcRider. But lets set aside atmospheric turbulence for the moment. I see something quite different happening; or really things just continuing as it they are now, only in the air. Having been raised in Miami and seen the increase road rage incidents, along with quite...

Devils advocate, that is 100% correct. Retired airline employee here.

The big question is why they tried landing with no landing gear or flaps deployed. Landing gear is easily 'gravity dropped' on the 737, which would then enable spoilers and thrust reversers for braking power. The TE flaps can be deployed electrically if the hydraulics fail. Some speculation is...

So very true; I was born and raised in Miami; you just can't underestimate Miami-Dade County's zeal for needing kickbacks and 'palms' liberally greased. Many of their schemes were/are quite brazen. Too many articles I could reference, just google, ''Miami-Dade County airport...

^^^^^🤣...suppurating pustule.......now THERE'S a visual......:p:p

https://www.yahoo.com/news/army-corps-engineers-directs-csx-141957985.html#:~:text=In%20the%20Dec.,fill%20material%20into%20those%20waters. Not sure this belongs here, as this is a brouhaha CSX is embroiled in, for further despoiling the Nolichucky River Gorge that hurricane Helene did a...

Glad it was a better ending for you, but I'm still totally mystified as to why Amtrak puts up with these miserable employees that go out of their way to make a trip as unpleasant as possible. I've also had both versions, good and bad.

Glad they did something passenger-forward for you guys; sounds like they really tried to ease the inconvenience, especially for sleeper passengers. Much better than what I experienced on CZ last year. Dining car died completely, couldn't serve anything. All the crew did is tell us to go to...

We arrived in San Fran on the Zephyr last year; Amtrak has a thruway bus that meets the train and it will take you into San Francisco from Emeryville as long as you book your ticket that way; there's no added fare for it. Thing is, the bus drop point used to be at Fisherman's Wharf but...

I think Amtrak has a lot of faults, but in this case it could be that they just don't want to be held hostage by a corrupt local government that can't get its act together, and is constantly moving goalposts because of their own dumb mistakes and incompetence. I know we're talking about the MIC...

As for Amtrak, the switcher engine is without doubt the most common sense idea, but who knows why Amtrak won't jump on that. Seems a very simple solution.

I read that story too on the news this morning. What the heck -?? Doesn't the conductor, or someone, have to walk thru the train cars so that something like this doesn't happen?? It's easy to blame the student, but I can easily see stuff like this happening, young people can get in...

Yeah, it was very disappointing. And after the trip, Amtrak sent me a survey :mad: in which I ripped them a new one. Also wrote them an email, so we'll see what they do. I doubt we were the only ones writing. I will say, we've taken EB twice, Crescent, and CZ twice. All were great rides up...

I just rode the CZ westbound. It was a complete fiasco, I love the trains but this one is going to make me think twice about ever again. We got exactly one dinner in the diner for a 50+ hour trip. The diner more or less died before reaching Denver. Leaking water pipes and tank was the...

Yeah, I did book the bus. But the bus only goes one place now, the Chase center I think, and won't drop off at Fisherman's Wharf, I asked the driver. That was the confusion, Amtrak's website said there was a bus 99 route that would go to the Wharf area. But, no. Anyway, we called up a...