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Glad they did something passenger-forward for you guys; sounds like they really tried to ease the inconvenience, especially for sleeper passengers. Much better than what I experienced on CZ last year. Dining car died completely, couldn't serve anything. All the crew did is tell us to go to...

We arrived in San Fran on the Zephyr last year; Amtrak has a thruway bus that meets the train and it will take you into San Francisco from Emeryville as long as you book your ticket that way; there's no added fare for it. Thing is, the bus drop point used to be at Fisherman's Wharf but...

I think Amtrak has a lot of faults, but in this case it could be that they just don't want to be held hostage by a corrupt local government that can't get its act together, and is constantly moving goalposts because of their own dumb mistakes and incompetence. I know we're talking about the MIC...

As for Amtrak, the switcher engine is without doubt the most common sense idea, but who knows why Amtrak won't jump on that. Seems a very simple solution.

I read that story too on the news this morning. What the heck -?? Doesn't the conductor, or someone, have to walk thru the train cars so that something like this doesn't happen?? It's easy to blame the student, but I can easily see stuff like this happening, young people can get in...

Yeah, it was very disappointing. And after the trip, Amtrak sent me a survey :mad: in which I ripped them a new one. Also wrote them an email, so we'll see what they do. I doubt we were the only ones writing. I will say, we've taken EB twice, Crescent, and CZ twice. All were great rides up...

I just rode the CZ westbound. It was a complete fiasco, I love the trains but this one is going to make me think twice about ever again. We got exactly one dinner in the diner for a 50+ hour trip. The diner more or less died before reaching Denver. Leaking water pipes and tank was the...

Yeah, I did book the bus. But the bus only goes one place now, the Chase center I think, and won't drop off at Fisherman's Wharf, I asked the driver. That was the confusion, Amtrak's website said there was a bus 99 route that would go to the Wharf area. But, no. Anyway, we called up a...

I'm going to be on the CZ in a few days, getting off in Emeryville. I want to take the Amtrak bus connection to San Francisco, specifically fisherman's wharf. I know the bus used to go there but from what get with recent online searches I'm not sure where it stops now - do any of y'all know...

Yes, both you and AmtrakBlue mentioned this one. I didn't forget, but didn't really seem like a 'glide' in the sense we're speaking of, where the aircraft has many miles to go with engines out. Sully did a terrific job, here, but he wasn't trying to glide as much as he was trying to get to...

It was close, I think. Had the pilot flying not immediately fought off this guy's attempt, it could have been tragic. I'm a retired airline employee, though not a pilot. But in working on delayed or canceled flights, working with maintenance employees, you get to know some stuff. When a...

Exactly - I had the same question. The MIC is an embark/disembark station; there's no servicing or maintenance area there. The Meteor and Star would have to go back to Hialeah anyway for servicing the next day's departures. Seems common sense (and less complicated) to have a switcher pull...

I've noticed over the past month that the Zephyr has been keeping better time, I wonder if both BNSF and UP got a talking-to about freight delays....

Ewwwwww.... 😝

Pathetic. (not you of course). Amtrak can't even clean windows when they turn a train?? An Amtrak critic I know told me he recently rode 92 and it still had someone's trash in his room. Could be exaggerating I guess, but one wonders.

Ah; yeah, makes sense, thanks. And I guess NS has been less diligent about their track maintenance.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't get it - why the problem with the Crescent's route? It's not like it's the only place these days with continuous 100* temps. What about the Chief? I don't hear of it being cancelled or shortened due to track problems. Florida has had record days...

What a great video, thanks!

He's probably a journalist going to write a documentary on train travel in the US........ 😉 😉

Spot on. Same hypocrisy most everywhere, I guess. When I worked Concierge, I'd escort our VP's and CEO's to the gate for their flights. Oh, everything was just so, so, perfect. Lots of gate agents, boarding flawless, never mind that the rest of the time the same flight usually had just...