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I have no doubt additional/lengthened sidings will be built (at Amtrak's cost) in strategic locations to park passenger trains while they watch freight trains go by.

Just received in email from BMWED.... "BMWED’s Status Quo Period Ends on December 9th Following SMART-TD and BLET Ratification Results Published: Nov 21 2022 8:12PM (EST) BMWED’s Status Quo Period ends effective 0000:01 on December 9th following SMART-TD’s failed ratification while BLET...

There is the Salish Lodge east of Seattle (of Twin Peaks fame as the Great Northern Hotel.) The NW Railway Museum is just up the road in North Bend. Then again, if you are a Stephen King fan (or not) there is the Stanley Hotel northwest of Denver that was the basis of the Overlook Hotel in his...

On Monday, September 26th I rode the first northbound Amtrak Cascades (516) in two years out of Seattle from Mount Vernon, WA (MVW) to Vancouver, BC (VAC) and back. (Three Horizon cars total, two coaches and one café/business class car.) Cost was $50 coach which would have been about the same...

Baubles and trinkets included lanyards, key rings, mints, luggage tags and lego Cascades locomotives.

Well, I'm all set to ride the first Cascade train to Canada from Mount Vernon, WA. to Vancouver, BC and back on Monday, 9/26. ArriveCAN filled out. It get easier to use each time as I've been back and forth about five times so far this year.

Canoe Racing A Japanese company (Toyota) and an American company (General Motors) decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race. On the big day, the Japanese team won by a mile. The Americans, very...

I heard one railroader say to everybody at his retirement party years ago, “The railroad spent two weeks training me to do my job and then spent the next forty years trying to fire me.”

re: Ideas for Amtrak to raise revenue I know! I know! How about providing sleeping cars on long distance trains? :rolleyes:

Are the new train sets capable of Talgo speeds? If not, who going to pay to lower the elevation in the curves, pay for the ballast needed to do so, removal of the soon to be collectable Talgo speed signs?

Just stepped off the Holland American Line ship Eurodam this morning from a 7 day Alaska Cruise- Seattle, Juneau, Glacier Bay, Icy Straight Point, Sitka, Ketchikan, Victoria, and back to Seattle. Cost me about $216/day with meals included, cabin with balcony, bed not bunks, pool, hot tubs...

If I remember correctly for those hired at BN after Amtrak took over in 1971 it was a 20% discount for travel. Tickets had to be purchased no earlier than 24 hours before travel to get the discount.

Amtrak passes were issued to BNSF freight employees hired until 1980. ( I hired on in 1979 and immediately requested one.) I learned in 2017 Amtrak cancelled all passes a year earlier in 2016. Neither BNSF/Amtrak ever notified me until I tried to use it.

There was no layover track built. It was simply parked in the Pine Street yard in Bellingham. (2006) This was the cleaning facility (the dirt strip) and equipment.

March 23, 2009- BNSF Bellingham Sub., Everett to Blaine, WA. They measure track geometry set to FRA track standards. The two monitors provide real time track conditions. https://railroads.dot.gov/track/automated-track-inspection-program-atip/about-fra-dotx-220 When defects are found bells...

Location looks like a good candidate for a concrete box culvert.

Well, that's one way to increase axle count.

I used an iphone for my pictures last year and all the pictures from my roomette window had an orange hue to them. And yet the pictures taken from the rear door window came out just fine.

My son at BNSF (MOW) just had a fall protection class yesterday and told me they now have to follow OSHA requirements (6 feet) rather than FRA requirements (12 feet) for fall protection.

When I rode Amtrak in 1975 for a quick SEA-SPO-SEA trip it was directional traffic between Pasco and Spokane. former SP&S trackage eastbound former NP trackage westbound Distinctly remember backing out of the Pasco depot to the wye that connected to the SP&S and wondering at the time, "Where...