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It may just be me but I cringe when I think of the daily waste across the Amtrak system that must be created with all those disposable plates. But I am the type who recycles anything than can be, including picking up random plastic bottles when I'm out and about and throwing them in a recycle...

I'm going to have a few hours to kill in Chicago on a couple of days in the next week. For the heck of it I got an RTA reduced far card after I attained that certain age but have yet to use it, and frankly I am a bit confused. Tried calling RTA/CTA and could not get past the mind-numbing menus...

Pretty much, they have. Not sure if it's 100% rolled out yet. Bad news is the mattresses haven't changed. Still terribly uncomfortable. What we are still waiting on is the new china and tableware in traditional dining that was highly touted a few years ago.

I am Select Plus and only got 2x. Harumph!

The news everyone has been waiting for.... https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/amtrak-service-albany-montreal-resumes-hiatus-19739566.php

This one. https://greyhoundbusmuseum.org/

Pretty good feature.

I'll post this here to start. If it's more appropriate elsewhere, so be it. A creative interactive Washington Post story about a cross country train trip on the Zephyr and Lake Shore Limited. Hopefully the link provides free access; if not, my apologies...

Nicely done. Great tips for my planned trip in April.

That said, the FAA is grounding Falcon 9s until an investigation is completed into the explosion of a booster upon landing on a drone ship off Cape Canaveral. No estimates on length of the delay, but could be significant.

I already had both the premium and basic card with BofA which converted to FNBO. For other reasons, I am not going to risk cancelling my current card to try again for the premium, for fear that for some technicality I'll be aced out.

I learned another lesson with FNBO the hard way earlier this year. I had the premium card already and wanted to get the 40k point bonus promotion. I flew too close to the sun, thinking I could be clever and cancel that card and reapply a couple of weeks later. I was rejected because I already...

Of course the publicity was the only factor. While I despise modern social media (and yet, here I am, haha), it can play a powerful role in getting corporations to back down. I know this because I worked in a corporation that was highly sensitive to public criticism. And I know of many...

I've had Select Plus the last two years (not certain now if I'll make that status for next year) and never had an issue being rebuffed in a lounge with a coach ticket, even in NY. Probably another of a one-off by a power hungry gate keeper.

And now NASA is acing Boeing out on returning Williams and Wilmore, opting for SpaceX...in February. This isn't surprising. An eight day mission turns into eight months.

Ok, I'm an Alliance native though I have not lived there in many years, but I do visit on occasion. I'll start and try to help but hopefully someone else has more relevant information. The "station" is a glorified shelter, though very nice, well lit and while open to the elements (with a roof)...

That is a remarkable amount of infrastructure work. The sarcastic me wants to say it's high speed rail! But, of course, we know that's not true.

Possible strike/lockout looming in Canada... https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/19/business/canada-rail-strike/index.html

Times, people and policies change, but several years ago I was on the Eagle and was denied access to the station during our layover. Granted, yes, we were well behind schedule but it wasn't train personnel who denied access, it was somebody who appeared to work in the station when I got to the...

My one experience with bustitution in late June 2015 on the California Zephyr was a doozy. Was taking my son on a college graduation trip to San Francisco. Due to a washout in Iowa we were something like 10 hours late into Denver. This included a very lengthy delay in the middle of nowhere...