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An Amtrak route that I pre-COVID I rode quite frequently was CHI-SOB generally home from Chicago. I take the South Shore Line there because it's not worth dealing with the unpredictable schedule of the Westbound Capitol and Lake Shore Limiteds, even with today's busitutions. Anyway in the past...

Don't bikes on the Downeaster ride in Cabbage Car? This the uncovered F40 at one end of the train, at least 10 years ago this was equipped with bike racks and where bikes went, not in the normal Amfleet cars.

How about Amtrak just installs Japanese-style toilets with bidets and stops supplying toilet paper!

I think the main question to ask is how old were the employees in question not wanting to speak in French/English? I think today to be hired by VIA you have to be fully bilingual, but they can't fire any long-term employees who aren't bilingual. On my one full length trip on the Canadian in...

I once got around a sold out Adirondack (decided to ride the Dome up to Montreal for the night when it was still running) by getting of in Fort Edward, having dinner and then getting on the much less crowded Ethan Allen Express a few hours later (on its late evening Sunday only schedule). Fort...

Could this have effected the Vermonter also? It stops in Claremont.

Something no one is metioned is that at all train station's in Isreal you have to pass through airline-style security, before you reach the ticket gates if I remember correctly, with a baggage X-ray and metal detector, buses don't have this.

There was a good discussion at the most recent MACOG policy board meeting about Amtrak in the South Bend area (start watching at the time of 57:44), including a potential Chicago-Ft. Wayne-Columbus corridor, an enhancing service on the existing Chicago-Toledo-Cleveland corridor. Both are going...

I bet Rocky Mountaineer takes its equipment back to its shops in Kamloops, BC to maintain the cars in the winter.

Couldn't the freight companies and Amtrak Long Distance not comply since their equipment is used in Interstate Commerce and only need to follow Federal, not state regulations?

You've gotta love the streetname "Stanley Cup Way"

I'm pretty sure the fare gates aren't replacing conductors checking tickets on the trains, it's just a second check, and requires everyone going to and from North Station to have a ticket. I assume on Septa there's no penalty if you just tap on and then tap off at your origin and destination and...

The current Maimi Amtrak Station is an AmStation in my opinion.

For the new SEA to VAC Cascades trains today, what's the Rolling Stock. One of the remaining Oregon Talgo sets or Horizon cars? Might be going up to Bellingham for a quick trip in couple weeks as part of a week were planning to spend in Seattle, we were planning to just rent a car, assuming...

It's looking like Stadler may be providing Flirt Hydrogen Multiple (HMU?) Unit trainsets for Amtrak California powered by Hydrogen Fuel a Memorandum of Understanding Signed to purchase up to 25 units to operate statewide based on their FLIRT trainsets. a press release (picked up by trains...

I was once on a ski trip, and pushed my departure from Salt Lake City to Truckee back by a night in a sleeper. The night I was supposed to leave I decided to stay in SLC an extra night because it had just dumped so there and the Sierra's had almost none. Rebooking the ticket was easy, only...

I know that the Amtrak California thruway buses at least had a policy (saw this happening the last time I rode lots of them back in 2013) generally of letting passengers who don't have tickets onto the bus. They collect the passengers identification as a deposit of sorts and when the bus arrives...

A "memory schedule" is also known as a clock face schedule is one where the train (or bus for that matter) comes consistently at the same minutes past the hour for each departure and intermediate stop. I take a bus that runs every 60 minutes from my home to work sometimes, it leaves at :03...

The age used to be 15 to travel unrestricted as an adult with 8 to 14 year old's able ride according to the unaccompanied minor policy between staffed stations. The policy changed back in 2011. I remember taking the train to unstaffed stations even when I was younger than that. I remember a...

The Hiawatha is unreserved so it doesn't play nice with some of Amtraks savor fares. Definitely book this separately since the Hiawatha is so reliable.