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Looks like Amtrak's not the only one with problems.

No glaciers that far south, even during the Ice Ages. The long mountain ridges are a result of a collision between the ancestral African continent and ancestral North America.

Why? Amtrak is proposing new LD equipment that's superliner height and meets ADA requirements. If Chicago Union Station is going to electrify, they don't need to electrify all of the tracks. Washington Union station is an example where there is a mix of electrified and non-electrified tracks...

Some of these posts should be moved to a new threat about new equipment procurement. One thing I think they should do is start planning for the next round of equipment soon after they receive the current stuff. Of course, this needs a long-term funding commitment. Not necessarily more funds...

That should be more than enough time. I had a 7 come into Seattle 5 hours late, and they turned the train and left as 8 in less than 3 hours.

He says that they don't have a grill on the Empire builder, and that the flat iron steak is just reheated. This is not true, most of the stuff in traditional dining is, indeed, precooked and plated, but the steaks are cooked to order.

Where it connected to a Mexican train that ran to Mexico City. (I think you had to cross the border and get to the Mexican station in Nuevo Laredo on your own.) It's described in Paul Theroux's Old Patagonian Express.

11 flights per day at 21 passengers per flight is 230 seats available. A single decent sided train hold twice that amount. Even if the fares were similar, I don't think they were real competition at that point. Wonder what bus service was like back then? In any event, car ownership wasn't...

Even without the gas rationing due to the war, the percentage of people who owned cars was less than today. Also, there were no freeways paralleling the train route, or anywhere else (except for the original Pennylvania Turnpike between Carlise and Irwin). A d if there was airline service...

That's exactly why I've been using a walking stick or trekking poles for the past decade. That, and they do help with balance over rough terrain.

Bayrunner shuttle runs van service between BWI and Western Maryland/Eastern Shore. They stop at the the Cumberland Amtrak station, the BWI Amtrak station and the Baltimore Greyhound station. I think they can be booked as a Thruway service connecting at the BWI Rail Station...

I've been getting into lounges since I made Select Plus back in 2011, and before 2019 or so, you didn't even need a same day Amtrak ticket. I'd ride down to Washington early on the MARC train and hang out in the lounge for a half hour or so until it was time for me to go to work. Even now, I...

Here comes "Ambus!" Some states have started taking matters into their own hands, e.g., Bustang in Colorado, but something more is needed for Interstate service.

Single level equipment is needed for anything that's running out of New York - the Silvers, Crescent, Lake Shore Limited, Cardinal, and any new overnight service that may be thought up, maybe a revival of the Montrealer, an overnight train to Toronto, a new Night Owl, etc.

I hope they don't hoard it indefinitely! I suspect they pump out the tanks at the end of the run when they turn the tre train. At least, I hope that's what they do.

It's from something called the Merci Train, a gift of WW1 era French boxcars given after WW2 to the various states in response to an American gift train called the Freedom Train, which contained food and other supplies for France as it was recovering from the war. I saw one of the cars at the...

Looks like the dog is in the Sightseer lounge.

Airlines typically have 3 x 3 seating in economy class on narrow body jets. Seat pitch is 30 to 32 inches and the seats are 18 to 20 inches wide. Wide body aircraft have the same cramped seats in a 3x3x3 or even more in the center configuration. Amfleet 1 coaches have 2x2 seating with a 39...

Another time, back in the 1990s, I was coming home from Williamsburg, VA, and for some reason the train was cancelled at the last minute. They bussed us to Washington, where they loaded us on to a Northeast Direct for the rest of the journey. This was before reserved seating on the NEC, and...

There has been a discussion of bustitutions in some recent threads, so I thought it might be a good idea to have a special bustitution thread where we can discuss the topic in more detail. Bustitutions are a 2-edged sword. On the one hand, using a bus bridge to break up a long-distance route...