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lovely. I'll keep my eyes peeled.

Any chance anyone knows when the actual train schedules will be loaded for sale? I would love to buy a ticket on the first one since I'm living in philadelphia half of the time now and would love to visit the fam in Charlottesville by train!

I'm in hopes that this is the first step to having a handful of daily services from DC to the south... time will tell

Oh you're a funny one. aren't ya :P

this is awesome! thank you!

Yes, hence the "and then some"

Okay , so for my staycation I went with a friend to Tahoe for the day, since I’d never been and I wanted to see Lake Tahoe and what was along the way. We got to a cool little city called Trukee and we happened to be there just before 3pm and guess what showed up? That’s right you loyal schedule...

Sadly, the original time of early morning would have worked a lot better... maybe someone will realize this and change it? soon? *hint hint*wink wink*nudge nudge* Me thinks not. The seating will be a little better considering its a THREE hour trip to CVS (three hour tour... three hour...

Its about time darn it!

Sadly, this is one of those places where if the Gobama Administration had a keener eye, they would realize that by pushing the USPS to again use Amtrak for Mail delivery that it would create jobs. They've closed mail centers. It would take some money granted to reopen them, but wouldn't it...

thanks for the link Anthony, not sure which one is right... regardless I would think this would be a plumb good time to pick up some mail on the trains...

Fine, I'll bite. I've wondered about this for some time... being that Amtrak could use about every penny it could get - it surprised me that it was dropped. Was the cost of maintaining the cars vs the income from maintaining the cars hauling mail not enough? Anyone know the story behind it or a...

Well this should make things easier to organize in Charlottesville, VA (CVS). When riding the Crescent Northbound it's always a pain cuz everyone (the past three times i've been on it, it's been an average of about +50 people) bunches up around underneath the bridge and then simultaniously makes...

Fair enough. I guess I'll keep my eyes peeled and plan to fly into DC the night before and take the first DC-CVs run down and spend the night with the fam and take the first CVS-DC run back! woot! thanks guys!

Alright, good to know. I'd like to take a trip on that first northbound trip from CVS. How will all that be set up I wonder? Will the Ferry the train to LYH or operate the first run as a WAS-LYH revenue train?

So, anyone know when these new trains will be loaded for sale? just checked and still nothing there...

While I think the superliners would be great on the Crescent route I'm still holding my breath to see the line electrified and have a high speed train on the route.... It's a pipe dream, but it's mine.

This I too had thought of but I was asking more about the platform the NEC and Crescent would operate on which is the North-South platform with the Norfolk Southern tracks versus the East-West platform (which runs paralelle with West Main Street in Cville) which operates on the CSX tracks...

The new extension of the Northeast Corridor to Charlottesville and Lynchburg cleared its last hurdles receiving the final funding as can be read here in this article. Service should start around October 1st! I’m curious, with the increase in service in Charlottesville will they raise the...

so, a friend of mine has never been on a trian and lives here in Sac. So, we're making plans to go down to the bay one weekend next month. Are all the Capitol Cor trains 4 or 5 cars or are there any that are longer? I love to sit in the last car of a train so i can see the rest of the train when...