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For those booking, it looks like the VL-IIs are being placed in the xx12 car position. Two more sleepers, 62500 and 62507, are being delivered to HIA today on 97(09).

The new rules will measure the arrival of every single customer (the rules use customer instead of passenger) at their destination station. The formula is simply Total On-Time Arriving Customers divided by Total Arriving Customers on a train's entire route each day. Arrival must be within 15...

Nope. Doesn't involve removing rubber seals or windows on the outside or inside of the car. I consider that destructive. This method you can just slide the door open like normal. And no, employees are not trained or directed to remove rubber around the hallway windows inside a sleeper. It's...

There is a very simple, fast and non-destructive method to gain entry to a Viewliner I room from the outside. It requires one tool. I'm obviously not going to post the method and, in my experience, few employees seem to know this method. I've heard too many stories about crowbars, sledge hammers...

Eliminating those jobs is something the Company had already started in January, pre-COVD. At the time, all the second AC positions south of WAS were abolished and the Company started tagging extra cars beyond six as deadheads to NFK, NPN and RNK. When COVID hit, the Regional trains that were...

1) All the Regionals are seven car sets now. That means six revenue cars and one cafe = 1 conductor and 1 AC. Same as Acela. 2) Speed of the train is (mostly) irrelevant. Acela is ~30 min faster WAS-NYP and ~40min faster NYP-BOS. Depending on the couplet, you aren't saving much money with the...

Technically, the NOL-ORL portion of the route hasn't been discontinued. It's just temporarily suspended. In Arrow, train 1 still "originates" in ORL the day before it leaves NOL. So train 1 departing NOL on 10/21, for example, is actually 1(20). ;)

The Cardinal has a Baggage-Dorm car and already offers checked baggage at the few stations that offer the service.

Glad to hear it tastes good. Stinks up the whole cafe when microwaved. I can't stand the smell of that dish.

There is plenty of pad time already in the respective schedules to accommodate stops at OKE and JSP without loosing any time. For FBG, WLN and SSM, trains 79 and 80 provide connections to/from 91/92 at RVR and RGH. On the days 92 misses 80, 92 will call at SSM, WLN and FBG if needed.

The program is being rolled out, by train, over the next month. I didn't make that very clear in the first post. It started with the Crescent this week. Up next: July 27 - Lake Shore and City of New Orleans August 10 - Capitol Limited and Cardinal August 24 - Silver Service

Sleeping car passengers will be able to pre-order meals soon. An e-mail will be sent 15 days before departure to the primary passenger who can select meals for everyone on the reservation. The cut-off is three days prior to the train's origination date. The only way to access the pre-order will...

Amtrak didn’t announce this service reduction at all. Just letting it quietly fly under the radar along with the jobs that will be cut before October 1. Changes are effective in Arrow. Silver Star will originate northbound Thur-Sat and southbound Fri-Sun. Silver Meteor will originate northbound...

Supposedly, though not reflected in Arrow yet, the Star and Meteor cut-backs will be effective July 6. So the second busiest (non-Auto Train) station in Florida, Tampa, will have no train service four days a week. Tampa is also the biggest stop on the Star, period. Raleigh is number four on...

Freeing up equipment won't make the Cardinal or Sunset go daily. The bottom line costs will go up, regardless of how much improvement there is in the per passenger statistics, and it won't happen. What private operator has ~40 passengers cars of appropriate capacity and classes of service to...

They rattle like crazy because no one at Amtrak mechanical has a screw driver to tighten up loose screws. Most of the rattling comes from the overhead lighting fixtures and the aluminum fascia attached to said lighting. Also the luggage racks sometimes rattle on the ends where the wall...

Everyone has priority boarding these days. If you're the only passenger boarding a train does it really matter what line you stand in?

I'm definitely seeing a big uptick in one delay category - NOD - which is, ironically, No Delay. We're spending more time dwelling in stations waiting for scheduled departure time. It's a combination of improved dispatching and much shorter consists that get over the road a little quicker...

Looks like the Pennsylvanian is the next to fall. 42 and 43 are now showing annulled March 19 - March 30.

Amtrak is mixing up the Acela Non-Stop schedule. Effective March 19, on Thursdays and Fridays only the Non-Stop will operate as 2403 departing New York at 3:25pm, arriving WAS at 6:01pm. No changes Monday through Wednesday to the morning non-stop service.