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Jacksonville Transit Authority currently runs a bus from the Amtrak Station to downtown Jacksonville all day Sunday through Saturday. It wouldn't be very cost effective to extend the "Skyway" people mover to Amtrak. There is a need for better transportation to JIA, but no existing rail lines...

I connected from 92 to 75 and 76 to 91 in Carey recently and it was a great connection. Carey is a new station and more updated than Raleigh, however, Raleigh will be getting a new station too. The Piedmont Trains seem to run on time. If 92 is running very late, the connection to 75 might...

I agree 100%. I rarely ever use a published printed National Timetable because I can get all the information I need on line and its often more up to date than the last published timetable. I will add that I do have a collection of Railroad passenger train timetables dating to the 1930s and...

The Kentucky Cardinal is the most recent passenger train on the Louisville and Indiana between Indianapolis. It was very slow averaging about 25 miles per hour, but it was primarily a mail train. It carried Superliner Cars and merged with the Cardinal to/from Chicago at Indianapolis. I rode...

Thanks for posting. I worked for the Post Office from 1966-68 while going to college. We still received mail from RPOs and HPOs and dispatched also, but we knew they were on their way out. Zip codes were taking over the RPO schemes.

I had eaten several meals at Center Cafe at Union Station also had cocktails there. Sorry to hear it's gone.

Keep in mind that Burlington Northern operated 4 passenger trains in both directions from Minneapolis to Spokane immediately before Amtrak began on April 30, 1971. This was due to the type of winter weather across the Northern Tier and the lack of alternative transportation. The Empire Builder...

I was sorry to hear you did not enjoy your long distance train trip. It's not for everyone. I have traveled long distances and short distances by train over my past 67 plus years and always enjoy every trip. Amtrak does well with what they have maintaining passenger train service in the US...

Amtrak and CSX have wanted to consolidate the 2 Silver Trains for some time since they run very close to each other specially southbound. There been talk of replacing the Silver Star with a Palmetto type day train between Washington and Columbia or Savanah. Removing the Dining Car from the...

I rode the James Whitcomb Riley between Chicago and Cincinnati in October of 1978 via the former C&O freight line through Indiana. The train went past the former NYC/B&O Station in Gary, but I don't remember the train stopping in Gary. If it did stop, it was before that point. The local stops...

What about the days Amtrak does not announce a bustitution of Silver Star to or from Tampa? They just inform the passengers waiting in Tampa that they will be taking a bus to meet the train coming from Miami or from the North. I have had this happen numerous times.

Amtrak has sort of written off Tampa since the Silver Palm was discontinued. Several times, I have been waiting for the Silver Star in Tampa and it was announced we would be bussed to Dade City to board the Star. The busses picked up the passengers from South Florida. I am hoping...

In 2 years or so, Brightline will be speeding passengers from Miami to Orlando International and reverse. Seems very efficient considering the various negative encounters they have been subject. I and others in Florida look forward to our first ride on a truly modern rail passenger system.

I agree that South Carolina does not have elected officials that will support passenger trains. It's about the same as Georgia. The company I work for in Jacksonville is a subsidiary of a South Carolina based company. The philosophy is the Home Office is that passenger trains belong in...

I have ridden Amtrak frequently every year for the past near 45 years. When Amtrak started, they discontinued all but a bare bones long distance system. In the early 1970s some of the Senators and Congressmen who were involved in setting up Amtrak were able to bring back a few routes. In the...

I rode the Floridian Chicago to Louisville numerous times from 1975 until 1978 and Monon's Thoroughbred until it was discontinued in September, 1967 while I was attending Indiana University in Bloomington. I don't think either train ever hit the stated top speed of 70 mph. In 1967 the...

Excellent video! Thanks for the link.

I frequently traveled on the South Wind prior to Amtrak starting and on the South Wind and Floridian from 1971 to my last trip in November, 1978. The time keeping was a fairly good until 1969 when the former PRR/then Penn Central tracks between Indianapolis and Louisville started to deteriorate...

If the first Brightline route from OIA to Miami is successful and I believe it will be, I have no doubt that other routes and additional stops will be forthcoming. I think that eventually even the NIMBYs from Cocoa to West Palm will change their opinion.