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Uncalled for sarcasm, obviously revealing of management's attitude. Passengers do not like being delayed 2 or 3 hours missing their connections, meetings, and appointments because Amtrak and Siemens can't figure out how to make their engines work after 7 years, reminiscent of Amtrak's E8's in...

There is nothing "unreasonable" about beheaving like an average rider. That's right, 30,000 MDBF is not good enough. That means every 7 round trips to the west coast and back, they break down. Seven years of putting up with Siemens Corridor junk is more than enough. We run trains for Americans...

Gee, just past P42's that are 25 years old with 3 million miles on them. 30,000 MDBF is not very impressive. The Corridor ones are junk. Passengers don't care why, including me. There are far more Superliners laying around with minor wreck damage that can be repaired. They have been doing...

You call Gardner, Harris, and Chestler "top talent" ? Amtrak is not Bank of America or JPM Chase. From an oufit who can't maintain new locomotives, can't wash its trains, can't staff its crew bases adequately, can't outshop Viewliners and Superliners, can't reinstate Amtrak Express, can't...

Does Dock Bridge ever get lifted for marine traffic now ?

"The rail service nearly turned a profit in 2019". Bogus accounting at work. They still got between 1 and 2 billion in federal funding.

A few weeks ago, someone said on Trainorders that they did just that because a Siemens set broke down. Only emergency food rations of course. The California Horizon dinette cars have long since been sitting in Beech Grove.

When I rode it in 2016, the back half was the Senneterre section. The Montreal engineer runs through to Jonquire.

The line is mostly welded rail - without anchors. That's the problem. Stick rail is only Rouses to Cantic, and some in two segments around Brossard and Castle Shannon. 7 freights a week to Vermont, 3 a week to NY, which are basically NS haulage runs between CN and NS on the southern tier...

With trip truncated to Saratoga, they called it a "schedule change". No hint of a partial refund for a shortened trip, never mind that Amtrak is so stupid to think we would all call Uber or find a bus to take from there to Montreal, not cancel the whole thing. Go look for a Montreal...

There is a complete lack of transparency, lack of public announcements, and lack of passenger advisories on what is going on with CN trackage, what is the timeframe, whose money is involved, and why the misleading 6 weeks rhetoric that is now 16 or 18 weeks.

Don't even think of taking 69 stub train to Albany or Saratoga and transfer to experience more train / less bus. Not only would it cost more, but last year's 69 for me was delayed with mechanical problems for nearly 2 hours leaving NYP, 10 minutes ahead of 281. The Gate Dragons evidently hadn't...

I did the callback thing. They predicted 30 minutes. It was 45. No problem getting it back. Before that, I reserved a trip on Adirondack Trailways on an 11:40am bus. It costs $79.99. Amtrak and State DOT has been totally secretive about the deal they made with CN, whose money was involved, how...

My July trip was truncated to Saratoga. I left a callback number to cancel the whole thing. I am not transferring from train to Trailways, but will take Trailways from NY

Is this service restructuring an indicator of closing down one of the East River tunnel lines for 18 months of rebuilding ?

The people showing up for 1340 would unlikely all fit on #8

How would white vinegar perform ? It streaks quite a bit on my car windows, which is different than FRA Lexan ?

Amtrak put up those percentages so that people could avoid crowded conditions during Covid. With the pandemic gone, so is that feature. Amtrak gets a juvenile sense of power and authority with obfuscation of information, whether it be load factors, timetables, laziness in posting Twitter...

Not walking distance, and I don't know a thing about Joliet. Naperville has a commercial strip of numerous hotels, which can be gotten to by a PACE bus or taxi northeast of the railroad. You can also backtrack on Metra to Aurora where there's a hotel adjacent to that station. For Glenview...

I would not risk eastbound same day Chicago connections off a trans-con at all. We are beyond that day and age, between Class I PSR, derailments, and Amtrak's broken down loco fleet - old and new. Get off at places like Joliet, Naperville, and Glenview, stay in a suburban motel, and take Metra...