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Yep, exactly this. Say nothing, put the beds back again and relax. It's also entirely possible that the attendant forgot what you said and was simply following his/her routine.

!st time I've heard one of his trip reports.......excellent reporting and delivery, seems like a great personality too. Well done.

Ha. Nothing will reduce collisions with current Florida drivers

🤣 LOL. Love the humor!

Search underway for suspect in fatal shooting aboard Amtrak train And, here we go, the crazies armed with guns have discovered Amtrak. Sounds like this person was targeted. Any more incidents like this and the TSA will expand -- we'll have airport-style checkpoints as well as long lines...

If your question is serious, the issue was the UAL plane landed Goose Bay with a medical emergency, then went tech. UA had to send out a rescue plane......later...

Maybe I've been lucky, (or unlucky?) but I have to ask....what is that Amstew stuff? Is it something Amtrak stocks for emergencies? It doesn't look........too bad......o_O

They're all tired, understandably. Train crews, airline crews, having to deal with grown adults acting like 2 year olds.

Sounds like a crew-rule. Unless it's a COVID-thing. I was on the Builder in 2019 and the SSL was full of a raucous, noisy group. We went and sat in the diner, no trouble.

My last trip to NO was pre-COVID. We arrived on the Crescent, which was late. We got into Nawlins after 11pm. Lots of taxis available, but I have gotten used to using Uber and had a ride to my hotel within 10 minutes. Hotel was only about a mile and a half from the train station, but I...

I'm going to add the group of people who would treat the train travel as the experience and not the destination. Not strictly retirees, but folks wanting something different, it's like going on a cruise ship, only this is a land cruise. I think this would probably only apply to the western...

LoL. Glad you realized how silly that sounded. The Americans, Deltas, and Uniteds of this world have far more complicated ops. The bottom line is schedules are managed , to account for the vagaries of DST. Some flights operate, with times massaged, others are canceled to save crew usage...

You're not providing anything well reasoned; all you're doing is attacking what I said without providing any informed debate whatsoever. And I'm not presuming what air carriers do. I'm very familiar as I worked in the operations center of a major carrier for several years. Amtrak, as many...

Danib62 is absolutely correct. The notion that a train should 'hold' somewhere for an hour is ludicrous and prehistoric by any measure. Like was stated above, no airline in the world would do this and their schedules are by far more complex than a railroads. The time at any given location in...

= Oh man, for sure! Funny, I lived a couple of blocks from that crossing in Miami Springs. Yea, they'd come chugging out of there, cross the trestle over the canal just barely starting to pickup speed, it used to make for horrible traffic backups on Okeechobee road before they lowered...

Glad you asked, AmtrakBlue. Yes, actually I do know the trains and crossings pretty well. I lived in south Florida for the first 60 years of my life. Did lots of train watching at lots of crossings - and as that FEC rail line heads into north Miami/Hollywood, it is cracking on. A north...

The thing is, the freights on the FEC line haul ***, they are NOT slow movers. Other lines in central Miami and elsewhere the trains just toodle along, and it takes forever. But this FEC line, even though it parallels a busy US1 the train speed limit is quite fast. I'll bet they're doing...

So true. I don't understand the people that make these crazy attempts to beat a train at a grade crossing. You can't wait? You're that impatient? I was just down in south Florida and witnessed a near miss, woman in an SUV at the FEC tracks along US1. I was toward the front at the...

Nice, great pics, love that dark sky in the background of the approaching train. I didn't realize there were any semaphores left at all! Which train/line is that?

I'm not ranting; calm down. Telling people how I would handle a problem is called an opinion; you're allowed to have those on forums, if I'm not mistaken. You can disagree with it, sure. I'm simply saying take care of your own self - If you're allergic to several things it's far better to...