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The chargeback from the premium fares to the food service is huge. I took a business class ride to New Haven 3 years ago. I got my "free" coffee. The procedure was like buying a mattress. Show your e-ticket, your ID, sign the receipt. The receipt showed it costing $5. Retail was $2.50 or $3 at...

My experience in border crossing the last couple of year is on I-87 on Adirondack Trailways. CBSA wants everyone off the bus with ALL the belongings. USC wants everyone off the bus with NONE of their belongings. I asked the driver why the double standard. First off is they xray the southbound...

I was on Trains 622 on July 28th. I really lucked out.

I think they should shift the Lakeland/Tampa operaton to the Silver Meteor. The two hours saved should be added to dwell time in DC for recovering lateness.

I don't agree with that hypothisis. If anything, it gives the railroads an excuse to not electrify anything. NJT, LIRR, and MN have bought dual-powered and dual-mode locomotives over the last 25 years and have not electrified anything since the late 1980's and don't seem to be interested in...

You should double check RPA's anyway. I have found a few small errors or omissions, perhaps some out of date infor and it is a tedious volunteer job by a human. They eliminated that person's position with an untargeted, free-for-all buy-out that David Gunn and others warned against because...

Take a look at the Lake Shore Ltd when faking a reservation to find out the schedule and dining amenities. There is absolutely nothing saying there is no cafe car (meaning no food service) at all for coach passengers between New York and Albany, actually Schenectady, right through a meal period...

It should not require hunting, discovering, taking screen prints and pasting to Word, or some other method, or take a training course. When I see Schedule, I want to see a PDF timetable, period. Your attachment is for a route for one train a day. Try that for the NEC or Empire Corridor. Amtrak...

What they call a timetable is not a timetable. It is origin-destination throughout the day, requiring a tap to Details drop-down to get intermedate stops for each train individually, a sloppy mess and not printable on one piece of paper. It does not contain the information that pdf's once had...

The neo-Floridian and the Midwest-Florida marketing hype is a snow job to distract from that inconvenient truth. No one is talking about the Viewliner I and II sleepers and diners that are laying around either. Amtrak got caught with their pants and underwear down after they were told to...

Same holds true for Shoreline East and Virgina Railway Express. It is a function of when and where Amtrak tickets are honored on commuter trains. Commuter rail timetables in general need not show Amtak, and never have, but Amtrak can get off their duffs and produce pdf timetables and stop this...

Downeaster, and more sit in Beech Grove.

The Amfleet-2 started off as half dinette and half Superliner lounge seats. The lounge portion become a smoking room, walled off with hard fiberglass bus seats. Then they yanked that out and put in tables. Amfleet-2 toilets seem to be a lot more temperamental than Superliner ones, and often a...

A 3rd track could be considered the Conemaugh Line, which I have been on with the Pennsylvanian a few times.

They will if they use the scrapper in New Jersey.😁

Albany Gate Dragons do not regard checking Passports as part of their job description, just checking e-tickets. Cantic, the junction with the line from Vermont, has the manual switch set toward Vermont as a normal setting. St Jean is always slow with that nasty curve. You'll have jointed rail...

This is how it is done from a "mom & pop" bus company (also a Thruway bus contractor) in Vermont that has 3 buses that has the online tools as well: https://www.vttranslines.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2021-Bus-Rail-Link-Printable-Schedule-V5.pdf There is a lot of information there, not a...

A 3rd sleeper means needing 5 of them. The LSL getting a 4th sleeper requires only 3. A more meaningful allocation would be that 3rd sleeeper runs on the Pennsylvanian and Floridian via Pittsburgh. Of course there's plenty of meals available in the diner for coach passengers. $45 for dinner is...

Are coach passengers allowed in the diner on the Silvers ?

I always print E-tickets, maybe produce another copy at a Quicktrack machine, and also save the pdf document on my phone. It was one person at Amtrak, who did timetables who retired . The RPA timetable is done by a volunteeer from RPA & ESPA who is very good at gathering raw data and...