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This is very exciting for Florida! I am looking forward to driving to OIA to catch the train to South Florida and maybe someday Brightline will come to Jacksonville.

I have arrived at 3 of the 4 Boston Stations (all except RTE). BBY is very convenient to a number of hotels and we had no problem getting cabs there. We rode both the T's Orange line and Green line from BBY to BON

Until Amtrak started, Penn Central ran the Buffalo Day Express from Harrisburg to Buffalo. It was a former Pennsylvania Railroad train. A few years earlier, there was a companion overnight train from Harrisburg to Buffalo with a branch to Erie. When these trains lost their RPOs...

Having traveled both directions several times, West bound is a definitely the best scenery. I think it is great to travel the entire route from Chicago to Emeryville. Going west into Denver in the morning with the Front Range in the background is awesome. Of course west of Denver going west...

In the pre-Amtrak days, the winter only Florida Special operated non stop at times from Richmond to West Palm Beach with an operating stop in Baldwin, Fl. It was still 24 hours from New York to Miami. That was before Auto Train and I think Auto Train has taken a lot of the Florida Special market.

Great Video! I rode behind NKP 765 from Peoria to Keokuk, Iowa via the Toldedo, Peoria and & Western in May, 1981. She's an impressive locomotive!

This is the former Chicago and Eastern Illinois RR line from Chicago to St. Louis. Of the 4 Chicago - St. Louis passenger rail routes, this was the least populated and the first to lose passenger train service in the 1950s.

I agree! Many other countries are spending billions on truly HSR. The US once had a rail system that was envy of the world. Unfortunately that was years ago and other countries are much better.

In the 1950s and early 1960s, the private railroads had numerous coast to coast Sleeping Cars that ran via New York Central, Pennsylvania and B&O from the east to Chicago and Santa Fe, C&NW-CMSP&P-UP and CRI&P-SP from Chicago to west coast points. In some cases the Sleeping Cars were switched...

My first train trip was in late August 1948 when I was less than a month old when my parents took me from Joliet, Illinois to Council Bluffs, Iowa to visit my Grandmother on The Rocky Mountain Rocket. At the time, my Dad worked for the New York Central in Chicago. In the 1950s and 1960s we...

At this point, Green Cove Springs would be as far as Commuter Service from Jacksonville would go and this has been discussed, but no funding. Commuter Service on the FEC route has been discussed as far as Daytona, but no funding.

In the days when passenger trains went to multiple stations in Chicago, the Roosevelt Road bridge was great for seeing the various brightly colored passenger locos and cars from a number of Railroads.

The Illinois Central mainline from Chicago to Memphis use have some of the smoothest track back in the 1970s after they put the continuous welded rail in. I don't think it's as good these days.

I was on the Silver Star on Saturday. I had my mi-fy, but Amtrak Connect connect was an option. The connection was not as good as the mi-fy, but it was there.

I, too, enjoyed the rail fans seat in the Domes. Amtrak ran Domes in some areas that had never had Domes before. I remember riding in the Dome of the Floridians for the street running in New Albany, IN and other places along the Monon through Indiana. I remember riding the last Monon train in...

I thought they were supposed to add 2 additional trains in each direction from Norfolk funded by Virginia.

When Amtrak started, the Broadway LTD and National LTD were the main east-west trains. There was no train to Chicago west of Buffalo until a 1 year experimental train was started. At that point, what is now the Cardinal was a Chicago-Washington/Newport News train named the George...

I had a older neighbor who was a retired Espee Agent in Oklahoma City in early 1950s. His name appears in the timetable s from that era. OKC was an offline Agency for Espee but was served by Rock Island's Cherokee which had through cars to Los Angeles via Espee. Whenever Espee management visited...

The thing to keep in mind once passenger train service is discontinued over any route and it has been than 5 years since service existed, the average potential passenger will need good marketing to get them to travel. In many areas, most people don't realize they can travel on a passenger train...

Looks very familiar. I attended a number of ICC train-off hearings in Arkansas, Tennessee and other locations in that era. I was too far from California to make it out there.