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Not completely correct. They have done a couple refreshes. The appetizers were changed a couple times and they had moved to a different chicken entree. Additionally the pasta was originally a tortellini type thing with white sauce and they went to the current penne entree. The Panko crusted...

A colleague of mine at work was asking me about train travel. Their parents don’t fly and were looking to try it as a way to avoid driving to Florida. So I told them about the room options and they opted to book bedrooms. While their trip did get off to a rocky (literally) start when idiots...

It may be possible to obtain the document through FOIA but I'd expect a fair amount of redactions. Amtrak is allowed to redact certain trade secrets and information where releasing it at this time would be detrimental to the procurement effort. It looks like a few people had requested the signed...

According to report from a Trains article the second Seattle coach is supposed to return for summer plan. So hopefully that will get added in May.

E is the most popular because it’s at the center of the car (so smoothest ride) and you don’t have a neighbor on both sides. It’s usually the first room to go through.

According to a railfan report Second Seattle sleeper is back on Builder as of today.

The only thing that’s known is that the Crescent will get its physical diner back in the consist later this year (confirmed by Roger Harris at the annual public board meeting) - but no word on a change to the food service format. Other than that we know nothing. RPA’s RailNation DC is in a...

According to the announcement - later this year. The new Acelas will also have fixed seating.

Given that Amtrak has indicated they want to use a similar maintenance approach for the new LD fleet to what they’re going to do with the Airos I’d anticipate the LD fleet replacement process will eventually include some facility updates.

If it's 6 sets it will be interesting to see if they do HHP8 cab cars for all or if some are double ended with ACS 64 engines.

Beginning Monday, a limited number of coach passengers will be able to eat in the dining car on the Silver Service.

No. It won't even affect other trains unless its a really long shutdown. The Auto Train has been running at a profit the last few years so it probably wouldnt be affected either way.

A trains article from yesterday provides a little more of a hint of how they will speed things up and why they are doing this. Apparently a certain amount of train sets will indeed be operating push pull with the newly converted HHP8 NPCUs on the other end and will do platform turns. This will...

They use that occasionally too. But they some times do this way as well.

While they didn’t sleep in revenue cars, they slept in regular roomettes in an extra transition sleeper (one probably in the one accessible bedroom downstairs). American View does not have sleeping quarters and they didn’t have the beech grove or any of the other cars with special executive...

Large blizzard hitting Sierra Nevadas. Zephyr will be suspended through Donner starting with today's departure through Friday. Train will run Chicago - Salt Lake City.

Stadler is reportedly one of the vendors that's in the running for Amtrak's procurement - so they're definitely an option.

That is very true, running in slot is important, and you have to give dispatchers some leeway- though not a huge amount of leeway. Sometimes there's going to be a departure delay of an Amtrak train that's their fault - just as sometimes freight trains break down. A delayed Amtrak train coming...

I would not be surprised if this train was flagged for the dispatchers as a high priority due to the C suite being on board. While running in slot is a factor, UP seems to have no compunction about regularly delaying the Zephyr, even when perfectly on time out of Denver.

Yes. I get the impression from the report that inventory management has been a problem for quite a while at Amtrak shops. The pandemic, and its effect on supply chain which hasn't completely resolved yet, has likely laid this issue bare in that it has undoubtedly increased lead times for a lot...