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Same holds true for Shoreline East and Virgina Railway Express. It is a function of when and where Amtrak tickets are honored on commuter trains. Commuter rail timetables in general need not show Amtak, and never have, but Amtrak can get off their duffs and produce pdf timetables and stop this...

Downeaster, and more sit in Beech Grove.

The Amfleet-2 started off as half dinette and half Superliner lounge seats. The lounge portion become a smoking room, walled off with hard fiberglass bus seats. Then they yanked that out and put in tables. Amfleet-2 toilets seem to be a lot more temperamental than Superliner ones, and often a...

A 3rd track could be considered the Conemaugh Line, which I have been on with the Pennsylvanian a few times.

They will if they use the scrapper in New Jersey.😁

Albany Gate Dragons do not regard checking Passports as part of their job description, just checking e-tickets. Cantic, the junction with the line from Vermont, has the manual switch set toward Vermont as a normal setting. St Jean is always slow with that nasty curve. You'll have jointed rail...

This is how it is done from a "mom & pop" bus company (also a Thruway bus contractor) in Vermont that has 3 buses that has the online tools as well: https://www.vttranslines.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2021-Bus-Rail-Link-Printable-Schedule-V5.pdf There is a lot of information there, not a...

A 3rd sleeper means needing 5 of them. The LSL getting a 4th sleeper requires only 3. A more meaningful allocation would be that 3rd sleeeper runs on the Pennsylvanian and Floridian via Pittsburgh. Of course there's plenty of meals available in the diner for coach passengers. $45 for dinner is...

Are coach passengers allowed in the diner on the Silvers ?

I always print E-tickets, maybe produce another copy at a Quicktrack machine, and also save the pdf document on my phone. It was one person at Amtrak, who did timetables who retired . The RPA timetable is done by a volunteeer from RPA & ESPA who is very good at gathering raw data and...

Let's not forget Chicago - Pittsburgh is NS. Over 25 years, they have had multiple dispatching Indiana meltdowns lasting for months. While currently acceptable there now, we never know what the future brings, they are getting sued for Amtrak operations across Alabama, and with the last executive...

Whenever that starts, maybe in December, it was last 42 months.

The convention with the Coast Starlight is odd number is southbound - 11. Northbound has always been 14. At one time, the train was known internally as 12 & 13 south of Oakland. Maple Leaf is VIA Rail 97 & 98, odd number west to Bayview and east to Niagara Falls, but generally south.

I thought the Cap Ltd OBS was based in Washington ?

Rouses Pt US Customs procedures all differ widely between train and bus. Southbound bus passengers (I was one in both 2023 and 2024 on Trailways) are told at the border specifically do NOT bring anything into the facility with you except Passport and required papers. But they do rummage thru...

That's a natural human response. Maple Leaf parallels the New York State THRUWAY.

Timetables are a one page concise way of describing all train operations on that route, station services, amenities, connecting services, and the entire train's route. I for one do not want to ride a northbound train at DC coming from deep in Virginia, North Carolina, or Georgia, as they tend to...

If they someday reroute via Philly, like the Washington section of the Bway Ltd once did, or even detour due to a freight derailment on the B&O, the Superliners would not clear one or maybe both of the Baltimore tunnels, and incompatible with any high level platform.

Might they rebook sleeper passengers on Acela 1st class or the Lake Shore Ltd altogether ?

They are not trying to save time, but to send Superliners out west to cover up for the fact that Beech Grove is slow to put out equipment since they operate only on one shift. They should have put some more thought into this, done something more comprehensive, and recognize what works on paper...