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East-bound CZ arrived in Winnemucca on time, but there was supposed to be a crew change and the replacement crew, who I think arrived on a very delayed west-bound CZ earlier that day hadn't had enough down time (10 hours required?) so there was going to be an extra 2 hour delay wait for them to...

One thing to consider is the length of the originating leg of the trip. It doesn't so much matter where you are boarding. For example, taking the EB from somewhere in Wisconsin and trying to connect in Chicago to another train. It's not delays between Wisconsin and Chicago that might cause...

I was on a very late train (can't remember if it was a LSL or an NER) that arrived at South Station at about 12:30, a week after the governor cancelled late night (until about 2AM) MBTA service. I just missed the last Red Line train, so went outside to take a taxi. This Uber driver told me he...

I commiserate; I've had double vision twice. Fortunately it wasn't due to a serious underlying cause. The first time, I just woke up one morning with double vision. My ophthalmologist said it was 99% something that would clear up on its own, but just in case, he booked me for an MRI. They...

Oops! Yes, I somehow got Canal Street and ******* Street swapped in my head after reading the Amtrak notice about 3 times to see if it said anything about CUS itself being closed, and after looking closely at the map. Good catch! The Great Hall, the Metropolitan Lounge, and some of the side...

I would guess initially it would be whatever they can pull together, coaches and a cafe most likely. The EB takes 8:26 (according to the schedule) to get to MSP, leaving at 3:05 PM, so it is really too short a route for an overnight sleeper. Most likely, west bound, it would leave CUS 8 or 9...

Can you actually copy and post the email you received. (Edit out any personal information!) This sounds very strange. There is no notice of Chicago Union Station (CUS) being closed at any time in the near future. I don't know if it is open 24x7, or closes late at night, but the Capitol...

Yes, that was it, and @Willbridge is correct: he always told Watson to check the Bradshaw's, or at least, to find it so he could check. After all, as merely being a doctor, Watson obviously had nothing better to do. :rolleyes:

The constant changes in ownership, railroads creating subsidiaries to own some of their ROWs, spinning them off, selling them to other railroads, acquiring spun-off subsidiaries and independent short lines, merging, stripping assets and selling off the remainder, etc. dates back to the earliest...

Actually, I think every travel agency and businesses with lots of road salesmen and many public libraries would have had a copy. When I first started work for a very small computer software company in the 1970's, we had an office copy of the Official Airline Guide (a massive, big city telephone...

Pure speculation, but maybe it wasn't that they filled the locomotive tank from the wrong supply or using the wrong pump or nozzle, but that the fuel delivery company delivered the wrong grade of diesel fuel to Amtrak?

Presumable when approaching (or leaving) a stub station, the train would be moving very slowly for the last mile or so. Would it be able to operate with only the pusher engine actually running? Would a single engine in the back (controlled from the engine in the front, whose diesel motor was...

It must have been expensive (labor-intensive) to gather all this information. $6.95 was a LOT of money for a paperback book in 1948!

My first sleeper trip, LSL connecting to coach EB to MSP, it wasn't an issue because we were very late and the held the EB for a few minutes while one of the OBS people walked us to the waiting EB. We never went inside the building. However, on the way home, I had no idea the Metropolitan...

There are two showers in the Men's room. You need to get the key from the front desk and they keep some sort of security document (e.g. a driver's license) which you get back when you return the key. They also give you a plastic bag with a couple of towels and wash cloths. There are soap...

Arguably, no. It's a 20° RANGE of motion. The maximum recline is 35° in coach. The minimum is 15°, not vertical. Premium gets another 5°. Still not great, but much better than a maximum 20° recline would be. Does it have extendable leg rests, or would your feet have to be supported by your...

Of course they wouldn't rotate a seat in a bay of four! That's why I wrote "of course" in my comment." What seat map? I thought you had to call Amtrak to determine the seat direction and to change seats if you didn't like the one you were assigned.

That's a little weird! I used to take the train from East Foxboro to Boston (Back Bay) occasionally when I was in high school in 1968-71 and commuted to work in the summer of 1973 from that "station" (which was just a bumpy gravel parking lot next to the tracks, no paved platforms) because it...

Yes, so the people who ride in it regularly are used to riding backwards. I've never seen pictures of the interior of it before.

I don't think laziness is the issue. I think it is economics: bean counters in middle and upper management looking at their spreadsheets and being penny wise and pound foolish. Upper management and, in the case of Amtrak, Congress, pushing them to spend as little as possible and driving them...