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I'd be happy with vending machines if the food is good and has more variety. California tends to do food well (better than New York!). I've seen videos of vending machines on the discount high speed trains in Spain. I'd take that trade-off for high speed. But I know hot food is important to...

The first Amtrak Thruway service was a bus between Laredo and Nuevo Laredo in 1973, if Wikipedia's article is correctly interpreting its footnote to a page at history.Amtrak.com.

The bike can cost more than the ticket. WAS-NYP is as low as $20 in June, from what I'm seeing. I even saw a Palmetto priced at $20 for that run.

Since April 2021 Amtrak has allowed bikes on the NER. Space is limited and costs $20 each way ($10 in CT/VT). The luggage rack folds down into a bike rack, and you remove the front wheel.

Explosions, controlled burn in East Palestine train derailment were unnecessary, NTSB official head says This AP story is going around today. A contractor for NS was in touch with the chemical manufacturer, which was saying they could just let the train cool off. That opinion never made it from...

Two news items regarding Aventura: Brightline bridge to Aventura Mall due in time for holiday shopping rush Source, Miami Dade's Citizens' Independent Transportation Trust, "the 15-member body created to oversee the People's Transportation Plan funded with the half-penny sales surtax." Some...

March 4, says The Daily Catch: Two Amtrak Train Runs Restored, Adding Early-Morning and Very Late-Night Trains (one round-trip). "The final step to returning regional operation to pre-Covid levels, the Empire State Passengers Association (ESPA) confirmed." The ESPA website looks quite good too.

I thought this NGEC map was cool: Those stations are Croton, Southeast and Pelham, if you can't read them. Don't worry, no 123 at Pelham. The map is from one of the "Meetings" that keep getting mentioned in the "Monthly Activities Report" linked by Dutch. This one is called Metro-North Dual...

Acela 2 in late 2024 is also official, according to Next Generation Equipment Committee. A PDF from this interesting committee was linked by Dutchrailnut over on the AU thread MNRR orders additional DM Chargers. It was the February monthly report of NGEC, which references many sub reports on...

I suggest parking uptown and taking the streetcar. You can flip the seat to face in your preferred direction.

(U.S.-focused) Worldwide Railfan's quarterly video on all things rail mentions NS twice: 5:51 - Norfolk Southern acquires ex-KCS Dash 9s. His analysis: it was short-sighted to sell off locos in 2019. 14:35 - Investor attempts to takeover Norfolk Southern. His analysis: Ancora says it will...

That interesting article is about freight locos. Norfolk Southern #999 (model BP4) ran from 2007 to 2021 then was sold for use in the LA Basin, where the push to reduce ship and rail emissions is at its max. The batteries were lead-acid and then lead-carbon, which may sound old-fashioned, but...

Yeah, I loved those places, but I was talking about same-day newspapers. If I'm remembering, some London morning papers came into New York on the few flights that had the right timing. I think some newspapers in the U.S. had same day delivery to rural areas by mail, and that the Wall Street...

Alaska Railroad also has an excursion called the Borealis I just discovered. https://www.alaskarailroad.com/travel-planning/packages/the-borealis Looks like it runs once this spring, 8 nights, $2000. The Schooner would have been a good name. Just don't call it a Schooner Barge.

Seems it was Eddie Cantor who read it on the radio, and someone else wrote a song from it. The poem was written by an ad-man named Nelson Metcalf, Jr. https://blogs.lib.uconn.edu/archives/2019/09/12/the-kid-in-upper-4-a-wartime-advertising-campaign-of-the-new-haven-railroad/ The San Francisco...

Aurora, a better name, is however used on the Alaska Railroad. Boreal forests are probably well-known as a term in Minnesota. They don't have earthworms! Invasive worms are a problem in the news, Minnesota and Canada.

In addition to making short turns easier, perhaps it would make it easier to open new terminal stations. That would be both in cost and in negotiations with freight railroads to avoid interference, from the freight point of view. The new NPN that is due to open in April or May has both a new wye...

F/J/W = First / Business / Premium Economy. I searched just the letters and got Scrabble words, but then remembered airfare codes from the days of the early web and late gopher when you could get a consumer account on the travel agent system. We had NeXT computers!

Rail was the only way to go in the 1890s. CNN says Amtrak runs on 21,400 miles in 2023. How Stuff Works says the peak for all railroad mileage in the US was in 1916, when it was 254,000, a number CNN also states. The resurgence of intercity rail travel in WWII, partly due to gas rationing, was...

The Empire Service ALB/NYP gets one additional frequency each way starting March 5. Early out of Albany, late out of New York. https://www.thedailycatch.org/articles/two-amtrak-train-runs-restored-adding-early-morning-and-very-late-night-trains/