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That seems to be the way police are currently trained to respond. The result is problematic. This procedure usually means they fire their full load (six to ten shots) as rapidly as possible in the general direction of "the threat". Even at point blank range, most of the shots miss. Their gun...

I took a CTA bus from the Stamford Amtrak station to White Plains NY and back about six weeks ago. I had to show my Medicare card to get the 1/2 price fare, but as I was fumbling to get it out of my wallet (and dropping my library card and a credit card on the floor!) the driver barely glanced...

1) Go under the bridge at low tide, when the barge will fit. 2) Spend a couple of million for a new longer, wider, but lower barge (same capacity) that will fit under the bridge. 3) Spend several hundred million and several years delay to redesign the bridge to be two feet higher. Which of these?

Some people can sleep easily on trains and some can not. I think most people are in the middle. So it depends :) I've only been in lower level Superliner roomettes a couple of times. It's a mixed bag; it is nice to be close to multiple bathrooms and the shower, and easier to get on and off...

It would cost many hundreds of billions to rip it all out and start from scratch, including acquiring new, more rationally laid out ROW. Plus no public transit for a couple of decades. It might feel emotionally satisfying to say that, but it would be a very bad idea. But bad ideas have a lot...

The $24B is over many years (maybe a decade), not a single lump sum. A lot of it is already budgeted, including new trains for the Red, Orange and Green lines. This is paying the piper for calling the tunes over many decades. It is a little shocking how much it has added up to, but isn't...

My information came from articles in the Boston Globe quoting MBTA sources. Multiple times, they said that the rail separation was less than 4" 8 1/8" and that is what triggered the 3MPH speed restriction. If the separation was more than 4" 8 1/8" but less than some unknown number, there would...

Oh, rats! I took the Crescent round trip to Atlanta approximately Oct 2-6 2019, about 3 days after traditional dining ended.

"CUS" = Chicago Union Station

Thanks for the info. I've always wondered what the things that look vaguely like C-clamps attached to the bottoms of the rails are.

The words "these gadgets" are a link to an Amazon page for "Snug Plugs", little plastic bits you insert into the outlet that makes them hold tighter. There's a bunch of videos on the page; they look like they usually work pretty well, but sometimes they don't.

According to Amtrak's Service Alerts, the CONO is scheduled to run one hour later from Oct 18 through Nov 22.

Chargers are typically about .1 to .2 amps, or 1/100th of the 15 amps that would cause problems. A 9 watt LED light (60 watt incandescent equivalent) draws .075 amps, or 1/200th the maximum current. As long as you don't have a cooking oven or a table saw cutting 2" oak planks, you should be...

According to many articles in the Boston Globe, local news reports and an article in Trains, the plates are held in place with bolts, not spikes, but your description of the repair is otherwise accurate, as far as I know. ("Bolts" would imply threaded holes in the wooden ties, which seems...

There was also the 737(?) that landed on one of the levees in or near New Orleans that lost both engines in a severe hail storm.

The first video claims they traced the cause to using a track measuring device (confusingly called a "gauge") that was too short by the thickness of a credit card. Elsewhere I've seen very consistent information that the tracks are supposed to be standard gauge (4' 8 1/2") and the permissible...

This reminds of the time on Seinfeld when Kramer adopted a highway. For people unfamiliar with the adopt-a-highway concept (i.e. people who live in countries where the government maintains public facilities), this meant he was supposed to be responsible for picking up litter along it. Usually...

This link is useless. The web site insists my browser is in "privacy mode" and wants me to subscribe to view the article. Since my browser is NOT in any sort of privacy mode, and the web site provides no instructions for getting out of the non-existent privacy mode, I can't read the article...

If settling of the old bridge causes an accident, and NJT knew about it and didn't inform anyone, that could be criminal. Anyone in the know at NJT should be talking to a lawyer about whistleblower protection to save themselves from jail time. A coverup always makes things worse.

I think part of your question related to getting from the Metro Lounge to the trains... They always announce when the train will be boarding soon and tell the passengers to gather in the corridor to the left of the front desk (the one that leads to the restrooms, inside the lounge.) When they...