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And all this after Amtrak gave in completely to NS and wrecked their Crescent schedule in exchange for not having delays. Did Amtrak get taken for a ride or are they on the side of the Class 1s? All I know is that I won't be taking the Crescent any more. It's not worth it to get to the...

This thread is about truck drivers who are paid to drive, not about our weak licensing system for ordinary drivers and their inability to drive. That has nothing to do with truckers who are supposed to be held to a higher standard because their big rigs can be far more dangerous (and can carry...

Could such a train be daylight to Vermont and overnight after that to Montreal? I don't know the timing of such a trip. After all, the Vermonters think of themselves as "Progressives" so they should be willing to buy up some of the track sections and speed up the train to get better service in...

Service on board any trains remotely associated with Amtrak are based on what the crew decides is what they want to do that day independent of any standards or management requirements since management doesn't care enough to do anything more than approve a standard then wash their hands.

I agree about booking it now. Amtrak's policies on changes and cancellations are so much better than airlines that it's worth it to buy when cheap.

Amtrak wants to keep the AutoTrain like they should have been keeping the rest of the LD trains - as full as possible because empty rooms and unused cars generate no revenue and the additional costs associated with filling those rooms and cars is much smaller than the revenue. Since management...

To me the worst part about calling Amtrak is that I have to call them to do things that could be done with a decent reservation system. They remind me of the companies that constantly prompt one while on hold to use the reservation system which doesn't do what I need. Some issues with online...

Hope they're back when we visit our hearts in Albuquerque and Santa Fe in March.

I'd take an overnight sleeper to Montreal. The daytime train is too long a ride end to end.

So have I. Unfortunately, you may be called back real late or the next day. Both have happened to me. They watch your house and if you gave them your home number, they call as soon as you have left. If you gave them your cell, they remotely check your battery and if it is about to die, they...

Wedding at 10AM in GCT. Divorce at 1PM onboard the late Amtrak train.

The sad think is that having published timetables doesn't HAVE to be a top priority. It's just so simple, so inexpensive in terms of overall cost of operation and so useful that even the imbeciles could see that it should be done. It's just one of those things that a competent leader would say...

They don't give a fig. I'm sure the only thing stopping them would be the massive complaints to congress critters by constituents and then the critters would shove the problem down Amtrak management's throats. Amtrak management is simply too incompetent, too uncaring, too matter-of-fact about...

If Amtrak is going to use GCT, can we talk about Amtrak food in this thread? We do it in all the other threads!

My wife offered to do that for me - only she didn't want to wait for me to die first! :( :)

Stop the engine! We lost the car behind us. Whoops! There's a tank car and lots of other cars still coming!

The latest AAA "Go" magazine just arrived. It had a hype article on the Rocky Mountaineer in Colorado. Right in the first section, it mentioned that while the Mountaineer was in Denver, the "Zephyr pulled alongside". The RM customers made comments about better food and windows then, per the...

So many of them these days are poor drivers - as bad as those driving cars. So things I have seeing in the last few years much more often: Failure to signal lane changes Driving in no-truck lanes Not keeping in the right hand lane so cars pass on the right Cutting off other drivers Unable to...

The thickest, softest book you can find so you can sit on it and watch the scenery instead of burying your head in a book.

Flagmen replacing crossing arms? Great idea! Instead of crossing arms going flying, we can see humans getting thrown into trains, onto roads, into obstacles and otherwise dying or being seriously injured. I thought only those "live on the scene of the storm" so-called reporters were that...