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There are still a few places a civilian can land on a PAR approach. KSTJ St Joseph MO, KCYS Cheyenne WY, KFHU Sierra Vista AZ, KPSM Portsmouth NH, KTOI Troy AL, and KVUJ Albemarle, NC (it may not be a complete list). I have looked at trying the one into St Jo as a training exercise but it is...

Interesting…. Both the Constellation and the DC 7 had R-3350 Duplex Cyclones. The DC 6 had the Pratt and Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp. The R-3350 was such an interesting power plant with its turbo-compound setup of turbines driven by exhaust gas geared to the crankshaft to delivery more...

@Dutchrailnut Thats interesting. What exactly is the clearance issue?

Do you use dark mode? I have had dark mode change colors enough that QR codes had trouble getting read from the screen (for other purpose, not MBTA related).

Oh I get it now, the bedroom is in a separate car! Best wishes the rest of the trip can go as well as possible for you all!

I am just curious, did you get an H room on the lower level and a roomette on a real transdorm car, or did you get a A-E bedroom and a roomette on a normal sleeper being used as transdorm? On the CZ normal sleeper transdorm we had in August the A-E were taken up by Amtrak employee type people...

I view the West End Concourse as right beside and below, in a way. I suspect the problem for a coach non-Metro Lounge rider the problem is finding out early which track to go to and I don't know the answer to that? If you did want to try this, once you do know which track, I would suggest...

The Amtrak Food Facts web page links up further in this post may offer the information you need without having to ask?

Ha I was thinking the opposite, obviously Amtrak IT outsourced to China😕

Isn't the cafe in the lower level of the SS? What were they doing for coach food?

Car 532 should be a normal sleeper. If it was numbered 540, then it could be a real trans dorm car, or on our CZ lately they were using normal sleepers as the trans dorm instead of a real trans dorm.

Flux capacitors: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/11/transpod-wants-to-build-fluxjet-train-plane-hybrid-that-goes-620-mph.html

As hearing loss is a disability, the thought suddenly occurred to me, does that allow one to claim the H room in sleepers while traveling?

I looked at placing loops into our existing church building, and we found unfortunately that the fluorescent, CFL bulbs, and the building wiring threw off so much interference that it would be completely unusable without major rewiring and fixture replacement. We went with a 72Mhz (or was it...

So, in the case of a late train to a non-staffed non-kiosk station, the only choice to try to pull this move off would be a phone call for a ticket? Edit I suppose too, if the phone lines are clogged this idea won’t work.

Any stories of how close to boarding time you can still get the ticket bought online? 15 minutes? Standing at the train door? After the train is rolling? When does the choice to purchase a ticket get removed as an option on the web site (I suppose it has to allow for multi-hour late trains...

Ok, so both of our recent CZ had normal sleepers used in place of a trans dorm, 08-20-22 and 08-29-22. For 08-29-22, we were originally scheduled for 10 months to be in a normal sleeper roomette, 532 car. In early August, we were changed to the 540 car, room 24. Then, after being called in...

Rolling again, max 50mph to Galesburg.

Westbound CZ is stopped east of Galesburg 08-29-2022. An over temp alert on axle 4 trailing locomotive. They have to inspect it's temp then do a slow rolling inspection to see if it is spinning. People getting instructed do not get off the train or you will be left, and no blowing smoke out...

I hadn‘t heard of that either! I just renewed mine in late 2020 so I may end up having one of the last of the old design. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/passport-help/next-generation-passport.html