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I think that would leave things open to some middle manager declaring 20% of the equipment is unserviceable due to burned out light bulbs and sell it for salvage, thus raising the percentage of equipment in service at the stroke of a pen and getting a nice fat bonus without increasing the number...

As I understand it, the more direct routes from Chicago to Florida, via Cincinnati, Kentucky and through eastern Tennessee (Nashville or Knoxville) to Atlanta are in very bad shape and very twisty and indirect that it would be much slower than the better maintained route of the Cap and the...

The first time I took the Eagle (CHI->Tuscon), we arrived in San Antonio pretty much on time and weren't due to leave for many hours (2 or 3 or 4AM), so I asked if it was safe to leave and go for a walk. The SCA told me if the car was closed, I might have to wait in the station or on the...

I don't know. They let ME in!

Actually, the first time I rode the EB all the way to Seattle, I saw my SCA in the waiting room after collecting my checked bags. She said she was waiting for the east-bound EB to go home to Shelby (or one of those other towns east of Glacier), where she lived. She told my she as based in...

Liked: That Amtrak is finally asserting its rights under the law. Disliked: That NS has been getting away with this for decades Disliked: The resulting on-time performance of the Crescent Liked: That you gifted the article. On the balance, a "Like"!

Impossible to tell. That is an email address, not a web link (URL). If you click on it, it will bring up your email client and fill in the recipient's address. If you try to send the email you create, it almost certainly won't work because the subdomain is "email-sendonly", which is most...

That is something you should always do when responding to an unsolicited offer, but there are two difficulties: 1) companies often outsource surveys to a third-party that no one has ever heard of, so an email from an unrecognizable source is not a guarantee that is not legitimate and 2) email...

All baggage on Amtrak is supposed to have name tags, with the owner's name and some sort of contact info (address, cell #, or some other way of contacting the owner.) This is enforced for checked luggage and if an Amtrak employee notices a carry-on is not tagged, they will ask you to put a tag...

(Boding mine.) Amtrak's customer base is international. All the trains are in the US (except a handful that cross the Canadian border), but many passengers are foreign tourists. Perhaps they are playing with some sort of automatic web site translation app and they are using China as a test...

If and when the new bi-level equipment order arrives, would the order be large enough to replace the single-level Capital-Star with bi-level equipment? Or replace the single-level train with old (but refurbished?) Superliner cars rendered surplus by the new equipment? In other words, are there...

While waiting for my connection (TE to LSL) in mid-April, I did some exploring around CUS. Returning to the station from Lake Michigan, I arrived at the Union Station Transit Center, a bus terminal across West Jackson from Union Station, and rather than wait for a walk light, I saw a sign...

This will probably be fixed by tomorrow morning. Problems in August are mostly unrelated and unpredictable. The key is to stay flexible and allow plenty of time for connections.

Sorry mate, no worries but 3"6' is 1067mm, not 1607mm 😊 (Practicing my Ozzie for visiting my brother and his family in Tazzie next year!) P.S. Sounds like fun!

Cap is Superliner. Can't be extended to NY unless converted to Viewliner, which requires much more new equipment that a daily Cardinal would.

Probably, given the decades delay caused by NIMBYs during the original abandoned rail line to trail conversion of the two closest rail lines to me, and the current 20 year obstructionism to constructing a bike trail on the ROW of my local, very active, commuter rail line, which is more than wide...

What are "traffic signals"? Are these railroad signals, or road traffic signals (connecting or synchronizing stop lights on roads that cross the tracks)? I know there are are no grade crossings in the NEC in New Jersey, but there are many road bridges and underpasses and almost all of them...

This is how Internet conversations get off track (snicker snicker). @TrimetWESFan1003 mentioned the HARTFORD line and the Valley FLYER, nothing about the HEARTLAND FLYER... The Valley Flyer runs on the Hartford Line along the Connecticut River (the same route as the Vermonter) from New Haven...

I once met someone who commutes on the 7/8. But she was my SCA, and was waiting in the Seattle station after we arrived for the east bound Empire Builder 8 so she could commute home to Montana after her shift. She said she takes the 7 to Seattle as a passenger before her shift, works as a...

Yes, that is what I was picturing for a cable-stayed bridge. I think I had some other truss bridge in mind, because looking back at the pictures on the first comment, a lot of the truss structure on the Key bridge (not all of it) was above the road with the road actually hanged from it on...