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The Amfleet and Horizon equipment used on Midwest corridors has typically had seats (semi-permanently) removed for a wheelchair location. There might be space to fit two traditional/standard wheelchairs there, but likely only room for one larger motorized device.

Looks like service to Newport ended in the 1990s. (I realize that doesn't really answer your "why" question.)

St. Louis may be open overnight. It is a shared intercity bus/train station and I recall looking over Greyhound schedules in the past and seeing quite a few overnight arrivals and departures. Might be worth looking at the station information pages on the Amtrak website for those stations. Might...

If your friend is able to find transportation to Galesburg, IL (GBB), it is possible to travel from Galesburg to Rutland via Amtrak.

Some entity, whether the state of Michigan or a local/regional governmental body, has sought funding for a connection between the Amtrak Michigan Line and the CSX line used by the Pere Marquette a number of times over the last few years, through the TIGER and possibly BUILD federal grant...

The Columbia (MO) airport is located between Columbia and Jefferson City (about 15ish miles from Columbia and 20ish miles from Jefferson City).

I suspect that should read "through" or "run-through" station rather than "Thruway" station. A Thruway station would presumably be a station served by Amtrak Thruway buses, with Los Angeles already is. A through or run-through station is a station where (at least some of) the tracks do not...

The Chicago Central Area Circulator plans from the 1990s involved just that; alas it was canceled when the state portion of the federal-state-city funding mix fell through.

Up through the early 1950s or so, there was some level of passenger service over the San Diego & Arizona (later San Diego & Arizona Eastern), which ran east from San Diego to a connection with Southern Pacific at El Centro.

Guess that depends whether you consider the Cafe Car to be a dining option.

Don't worry, you're not left out from the titles :) - the generation prior to Baby Boomers would be the Silent Generation.

Eh, Sodexo (and others) will generally produce/provide whatever quality their client asks and pays for, from low-level mass-produced junk to something approaching fine dining. I'm sure there is a tendency to cut corners and pinch pennies, but if the college insisted upon (and paid for) higher...

Recently, Pew Research defined recent generations as follows: Boomers: 1946-1964 (ages 55-73) Generation X: 1965-1980 (ages 39-54) Millennial/Y: 1981-1996 (ages 23-38) Generation Z: 1997-2012 (ages 7-22) Of course, that's just one organization's definition, but does give an idea of what is...

Where did that equipment end up - Algoma Central Railway?

Has anyone actually documented that 24/7 food service eliminated losses (that revenues actually exceeded costs)? As best I recall, this claim is based upon one person's (or organization's) assertion that did not actually have supporting evidence behind it.

Pretty sure CHI-STL is still 79mph max, that the short 110mph zone near Dwight was (temporarily) done away with in the last couple years. Recent articles suggest that the "hope" is to have some 90mph running in place this year or next, with no real timeline for getting 110mph running in place.

As a point of comparison, Depew served about 104,000 passengers last year on 8 daily trains and Sturtevant WI (SVT), which does have a pedestrian overpass with elevators on each side, served about 83,000 on about 14 daily trains. I seem to recall when SVT was built that the overpass was...

I believe the "unused side" of the Syracuse platform was intended to be used by an extended OnTrack (the former sorta/kinda regional/commuter rail service) but the needed overpass work was never completed.

I swear that a few years ago (then) NARP announced that a Thruway bus would soon be starting between Detroit and Windsor. And then I don't think I ever saw any follow up announcement of why the service never started.

Any idea what the detour was? South through Wichita to Newton, then back north through El Dorado to meet up with regular route near Emporia?