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Ah, darn. Was hoping finally the Crescent got some love.

Here’s the #20 Crescent about ten minutes out of NOL. I took this two days ago. V2 was the first revenue sleeper. Paint-faded V1 was the second.

I grew up on the Crescent, making numerous runs with my grandparents Big and Rosie to Meridian, and sometimes Hattiesburg and Picayune, if we were going to visit my grandma’s brother on the land they owned in Poplarville. It was a train we all knew well. We knew the route well, and the on board...

Here are some of my 747 memories. Long live the Queen! 2004: First 747 flight. United from SFO to DEN. I got main deck business class. Lunch time flight, believe we were served a cold cut plate. I was in sheer awe when I stepped on that 747-400….truly felt like a kid again. I enjoyed every...

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I just got back from a long Greyhound trip… and believe it or not, it wasn’t half bad. The trip ended just a couple of days before the switch to the new reservation system. PDX to BOI was bus #1. On time, and a very scenic ride. Not completely full so I had a pair of seats to myself. Bus #2...

I guess that’s all they need for testing. I read somewhere it’ll be 2 coaches and a cafe when it starts, which will look a little more normal.

11:45am in Bay St. Louis. So maybe, what… around 11:25 in GPT?

I took these today in Bay St. Louis. This one was heading to New Orleans.

I could see Pensacola being added fairly easily. The question would be what CSX would demand in terms of upgrades on the Mobile-Flomaton portion, which is a highly used segment. Flomaton-Pensacola however never seemed to be all that busy back in the SL days. What is it like today? They would...

The past two years I’ve done Greyhound NYC-LAX. Two years ago I did the northern route via Denver and Vegas… last year, the southern, via Albuquerque and Phoenix. Both had their moments of frustration but I had a great time, overall. I enjoyed seeing parts of the country from the ground that I...

Yeah, definitely. The selling of the Pensacola-Baldwin segment to the short line RR has really hindered the chances for that segment to come back, but who knows? Money talks.

Do you think a Thruway bus connection between Mobile and Jacksonville (stopping in, say, Pensacola and Tallahassee) would be useful since train service east of Mobile is unlikely? Or do you think it’s not worth the effort?

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I thought some of you would like to see the new signs and platforms going up in Bay St. Louis, Gulfport, Biloxi, and Pascagoula. I took these pics today. Sone are completely finished, some are almost finished. It’s very exciting for me personally to see the Amtrak logo proudly displayed once...

It’s a two mile or so long wooden trestle. Pretty similar I’d say in appearance to the old CN bridge. The KCS one parallels US-61, and is located in the spillway itself.

The biggest hurdle for BTR service is the replacement of the KCS spillway trestle which is only 10mph for freights. Otherwise the line is in good shape. It only sees two trains daily in each direction between NOL and BTR, a local and a thru train to Shreveport. A few times a week there’s also a...