Search results

I just booked a lengthy trip myself, but that still doesn't mean I don't like what is more than likely coming down the tracks. Maybe I'm 'special,' :blink: , but I can gripe and redeem at the same time! :P

Very OT, but since we are talking about big event venues, Wolf Trap Center for the Preforming Arts, located here in Northern Virginia, allows one to bring one's own liquids, including beer and wine, to their big open air venue, The Filene Center. Makes a mockery of all the money grabbing...

According to TRAINS on 3/415, and I know I read it at Amtrak's website too, Amtrak is expected to move into the new Transbay Terminal when it is (scheduled to be) completed in late 2017.

My understanding is that Amtrak will move into the new Transbay Terminal. Hence the word "Temporary." :)

I hope you are sitting down... :P On August 20, 2015 the Montgomery County Department of General Incompetence Services issued the Item Completion Notice for this baby of difficult birth. WMATA now has 10 days from the issuance of the notice to accept or reject this poor, but way over budget...

Sgt. Joe Friday?

I think they are talking about Eastern State Penitentiary. Its a museum. I've visited it before and its pretty interesting. A great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to..... badda bing!

Did I just hear a bubble popping? :blink: :rolleyes:

At least he's got that 'million dollar smile' going for him. :D But are you sure he doesn't ride around looking for ferroequinologists to throw under Beech Grove? :huh: ;)

Yep. The cost of security is very, very expensive in low density corridors. Yes, it would far outstrip the cost of running trains. Uh, oh! Don't tell Southwest Airlines... or anyone else who wants to do away with intercity rail travel! Jis, I got your point. My point is that cost benefit...

Or maybe the 'experiment' will be deemed a 'success,' and extended, though it doesn't seem that way with what City of Miami found. OTOH, if Amtrak were to extend the experiment with short notice, it would hardly be the first time they pulled a stunt like knowing well in advance they can't...

Izaak, you are in my thoughts, prayers, wishes and whatever else might be of some assistance. Montana Mike: Thanks for keeping us updated. :hi: You too are in my thoughts, prayers, wishes and whatever else may be of some assistance. Stay safe from the trifecta!

I do hear what you are saying jis. Unfortunately I don't trust the system that is supposed to keep us safe to not act in its own self interest. Maybe I'm just a cynic. The irony of the focus on passenger train wrecks and disasters is that one main reasons for the focus is that they occur so...

I posted just after you jis!

I guess that blows my theory that this 'experiment' was done because some of the heritage diners are in such bad shape to no longer be road worthy.

With a new diner?

The LIRR shooting occurred long before 9/11, which obviously changed just a few things in this country. If the same thing were to happen today in the US and not off in some foreign land, combined with a perpetrator of Middle Eastern descent, there would be enough hysteria created for the TSA to...

889 posts, the last as recently as last week, to 2. But that is not the point I'm making. What happens is going to happen, whether we like it or not, is my point.. I don't want to see increased security any more than you, but whether we really need it or not doesn't really matter in the face...

Whether we 'need' it or not, isn't really the question, IMHO. The more relevant question is how will the general public, the fourth estate (news media), and those involved in transportation security end up reacting to this, and future events like this? I think the lack of postings here at AU...

Screwed over by Mr. Boardman in the name of 'saving' Amtrak? Nah. That'ill never happen!?! :lol: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: