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That substitution happens a lot on 448/449. I once rode a 72- seat Amfleet-1 in Acela-blob livery in 2003 out of Chicago. In 2017, when there was a half-business car on 448/449, the adjacent coach was labeled "Business Class", a 60-seat Amcoach-1, which confused passengers as to which car the...

When the Desert Wind went Superliner, its LD Amfleet-1 cars and the 10-6 Heritage sleeper became the Spirit of California, (which quickly failed). When the San Diegans went Horizon, those Amfleet-1 were distributed among each train set to become their Business class. Converting a Hiawatha to...

Pioneer and Desert Wind and some other one night trains (Eagle, CofNO, Cardinal, Montrealer, North Star, Spirit of Cal), once HEP'd had "long distance" Amfleet-1 - 60 seaters with leg rests, which are now NEC Business class cars with the leg rests yanked off. 8 Horizon cars were converted to...

Does that mean no Sleeper/Dorm - Baggage car which are all VL-II by definition ?

Projected ridership at Andover is 100 people a day which will not lead to the development of anything. "Rail Sprawl" is the term the Sierra Club NIMBY's used to kill it

For the several dates in November and December on the Cap I was playing with, Family Rooms are sold out, yet regular Bedrooms are not. Terrible coincidence ? I figure they do not want to commit to Superliners as it would be a PITA for them to rebook up to 4 people including 2 kids into...

How long do they hold your reservation after departure time ? It does take time for the conductor to scan, which may not happen until after Trenton.

I have been on a bus bridge between DC and Pittsburgh. But that was when the AM #30 was cancelled. This time #30 made it through (15 mins late), but 29 could not leave, therefore no train sitting at Pittsburgh. Superliners will not be there come November when it will be thru-routed with the...

For many reasons, do not plan on same day connections in Chicago, period, or for that matter between Amtrak in Rensselaer and Greyhound/Trailways/Peter Pan in Albany. Google Maps does a great job of scouting out hotel accomodations.

Tomorrow is another day. Check back. Every day is a new adventure.

PATH is only running every 40 minutes on weekends from NWK.

Take a bus. You have until 3pm to make it to PABT, then a 10 minute walk south. If you have time to kill in NYC, walk over to Andrews Coffee Shop at 7th Ave & 35th Street for a nice slow lunch. I am going to Montreal by bus in July, which leaves at 1140am. I have to seriously consider taking...

Take that with a grain of salt. Didn't they get the APTA award again last year ? Like getting a Gold Star on your middle school paper that got a D.

Some NJT honcho on Reddit said "Amtrak is deflecting" - it was sagging wires. Perhaps. How come SEPTA with all their MU's doesn't tear down catenary all around Philly with the same ancient catenary system ? He and someone else gave me down votes when I brought up that inconvenient observation...

Friday AM rush Rail service is suspended into and out of Penn Station New York due to AMTRAK overhead wire issues in Penn Station New York. Midtown Direct trains are being diverted to Hoboken. NJ TRANSIT rail tickets and passes are being crossed-honored by NJ TRANSIT and private carrier buses...

New Jersey will be 97 - 98 degrees Friday-Sunday. It will keep happening.

Were it not for the huge upcoming Murphy fare hike, who stated a few months ago that "NJT's problems are mostly fixed" (IOW, I hired 300 engineers, otherwise I stuck my head in the sand) while bad-ordered equipment stuffs the MMC yard complex, they would not be "singing" quite so loudly...

When a train snags the catenary, what is at fault, excessive slack in the catanary or something wrong with a pantograph ?

I think it safe to assume CN has not yet replaced so much as a cross tie. If you look at the track structure, rail anchors are few and far between, the tie plates have more than the usual amount of spikes to compensate, and most of the route is ribbon rail, which is more prone to kinks than...

Yes it does. It is an email group with members. I am in it, but only to hear what goes on. I get multiple emails daily. Every Canadian consist by car number, all corridor equipment cycles, seat reassignments by changed equipment, equipment substitutions from Venture troubles, a meltdown a week...