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Of course, you'e right. But that is what thru running fans do (Rethink, TSTC) - deflect attention away from here to Europe. Many a times I have brought up, such as to Liam Blank at Tri-State lately on Linked In (he must have thought that was a safe space from criticism) how it would be done...

I thought the cafe version would be a married pair to a coach, so how do they do this move ? Marry a cafe to a cafe ?

If anything, Thameslink proves the need for Penn Station South because Thameslink has its own King Cross station alongside the ancient stub end one. There was no BS about widening its platforms by cappng over tracks that would magically increase capacity and whining about political feifdoms...

My guess is they put the Pittsburgh passengers, including Pennsylvanian refugees, in it, so not much commotion at Elkhart, and that car would be rather empty the rest of the way. Not much schlepping through the trans-dorm for breakfast.

Could there have been a large number of transcon misconnects from the day before ? How many SL coaches were there if 5 Superliners in all ? They also had to go through the trouble of finding a SL trans-dorm to have it in the consist. LSL is a fairly easy deadhead move for Downeaster serrvice...

Will the Cascade ones be solid train sets or married pair of cars like Chicago's ?

Do you see them in service now that they have moved onto a P42 to test ?

Wonder why the HHP thing didn't work out ? Looks like VIA Rail is going to retire all of their P42's with the Venture sets coming along, while the F40's get another rebuild to get them through 2035. Amtrak should buy some if they are for sale.

Penn Station South Plan I believe now is 9 stub tracks and it would add 18 trains per hour. It would work like LIRR Grand Central Madison, which is accompanied by Midday Storage Yard in LIC, adjacent to Sunnyside Yard, though does not touch it, and getting to it bypasses Harold Interlocking...

There is zero chance they will keep a spare train set in DC for anything. If they annul an inbound train from Chicago, they will annul the outbound and turn the train headed from Florida right back.

The chargeback from the premium fares to the food service is huge. I took a business class ride to New Haven 3 years ago. I got my "free" coffee. The procedure was like buying a mattress. Show your e-ticket, your ID, sign the receipt. The receipt showed it costing $5. Retail was $2.50 or $3 at...

My experience in border crossing the last couple of year is on I-87 on Adirondack Trailways. CBSA wants everyone off the bus with ALL the belongings. USC wants everyone off the bus with NONE of their belongings. I asked the driver why the double standard. First off is they xray the southbound...

I was on Trains 622 on July 28th. I really lucked out.

I think they should shift the Lakeland/Tampa operaton to the Silver Meteor. The two hours saved should be added to dwell time in DC for recovering lateness.

I don't agree with that hypothisis. If anything, it gives the railroads an excuse to not electrify anything. NJT, LIRR, and MN have bought dual-powered and dual-mode locomotives over the last 25 years and have not electrified anything since the late 1980's and don't seem to be interested in...

You should double check RPA's anyway. I have found a few small errors or omissions, perhaps some out of date infor and it is a tedious volunteer job by a human. They eliminated that person's position with an untargeted, free-for-all buy-out that David Gunn and others warned against because...

Take a look at the Lake Shore Ltd when faking a reservation to find out the schedule and dining amenities. There is absolutely nothing saying there is no cafe car (meaning no food service) at all for coach passengers between New York and Albany, actually Schenectady, right through a meal period...

It should not require hunting, discovering, taking screen prints and pasting to Word, or some other method, or take a training course. When I see Schedule, I want to see a PDF timetable, period. Your attachment is for a route for one train a day. Try that for the NEC or Empire Corridor. Amtrak...

What they call a timetable is not a timetable. It is origin-destination throughout the day, requiring a tap to Details drop-down to get intermedate stops for each train individually, a sloppy mess and not printable on one piece of paper. It does not contain the information that pdf's once had...

The neo-Floridian and the Midwest-Florida marketing hype is a snow job to distract from that inconvenient truth. No one is talking about the Viewliner I and II sleepers and diners that are laying around either. Amtrak got caught with their pants and underwear down after they were told to...