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Camera bag with two bodies, three lenses (one with a rubber lens hood for shooting through windows), hard-soled slippers, Kindle, iPad with keyboard, three-way electrical plug, toothbrush, razor.

Hmm, sounds like a turnoff near a busy main line would be a great place for a smokey to lie in wait for speeders.

Maine Rider, you should be aware that Goose Island is the Chicago hazmat (oil paint, propane tanks, etc.) disposal location. Now doesn't that beer taste a bit funny? :wacko:

Wouldn't a live agent (in person or on the phone) be able to override Arrow and book the man a ticket?

Stop making fun of us commooters. We have to follow the herd. Twice a day, too. Have you ever had to walk behind a flatulent cow?

I've met locomotive engineers whose pride in what they do spills over into what can almost be called railfanning. One veteran engineer admitted he had a collection of videos of trains going Over the Hill on the old SP. A VIA engineer on The Canadian told colorful stories of the trains he'd...

Why is it that every time someone dies on the tracks, the ghouls come out of under their rocks with their blamethrowers?

Wasn't Bush II referring to Putin?

That reference was to an incident I saw in which the Zephyr was stopped at a siding close to the Colorado River and I saw the chef beckon from the dining car to a guy walking near the tracks with a string of trout. The guy handed the string up to the chef and money was exchanged. Later the chef...

In my opinion, Amtrak food quality has become much better in the last few years (except for the beefburgers). The sous-vide technique and its precise timing seems to have been mastered by most of the chefs aboard. Once in a while a chicken dish might be slightly dry or a steak slightly overdone...

Lots of folks on this forum ran into John Madden, the football guy, during his long-distance travels on Amtrak. Madden would often hold court in the lounge car over beers. Later he had his own bus. I never saw him but all the stories say he was a hell of a good guy. Attendants will tell you...

Seems to me that some passengers use Amtrak instead of moving vans to transport their households from one place to another.

That would be theft of services.

If you're offering to pay for his ticket, and he still says no, you need a new brother. I'll volunteer for the job.

In February I'm using up all my 2012 Guest Rewards points for a bedroom CHI-LAX and LAX-CHI, but I hope to amass enough points by mid-2013 to score a Chicago-NOL-Alexandria ride on the Crescent in the fall, or maybe Chicago-Alexandria on the Cardinal. Haven't yet ridden those trains.

All of us here are deeply grateful for Amsnag, John. Thank you.

Deafie isn't so pejorative; it's what they call themselves. (Late deafened often call themselves Deafoes.) I was thinking of Dummy. Hearie is not so bad but it is all in the tone, isn't it?

Dottie? Hottie?

F****t sure is as ugly as the N-word, and so is D***y, the card I carry. (To be PC, I'm hearing challenged.) Waiter, may I have another cup of coffee?

Amtrak's Status reports No. 5 arrived in Galesburg at 5:26 p.m. and No. 3 arrived at 5:42 p.m. Steve4031's prediction was bang on.