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From someone who spent part of my career doing delay analysis for an airline, destination weather is just one small factor. Enroute severe weather, when it closes off airways and forces flights to longer routes and also increases congestion on the routes bordering the weather issue, can...

Tipping on a cashless train today is no different than tipping in today's cashless airline club lounges. For the complementary beverages, I leave a dollar bill on the bar top and not once has it been refused due to them being cashless. :) Cashless really means no cash for transactions between...

Sorry, but wrong. 1) Post Office is just another cargo shipper. They do not have the authority to hold a flight (if they did, we would have had a delay code for them). If they don't have their shipment ready by the cargo cutoff time, it may not go. 2) Plane being full is not a factor...

When part of your compensation is a performance bonus based on what percentage of flights departs on-time (as in zero minutes late), four minutes is not insignificant. Studies have shown if transportation is not moving at the scheduled departure time or stopped by the scheduled arrival time...

Railiner, I have no idea what sort of professional experience you might have in the area of transportation scheduling but from someone who does (airline), please leave it to the professionals. We actually do (well, not me anymore, I'm retired) know what we're doing but many things in schedules...

That assumes arrival performance at Newark is unimportant and only the arrival at the train's final destination is important. I suspect any passengers detraining at Newark would disagree. A few years back, I was on an Amtrak train to Newark which was on-time all the way to Metropark and ended up...

I don't think it's deceitful at all. It reflects that for some purposes, you need to have a "no earlier than" time and for other purposes, you need to have a "no later than" time. Using my airline experience, suppose you're waiting to board a 2:00pm flight. Due to an up-line delay, the airline...

Everyone needs to take the people mover to get to Concourses B and C as the people mover is inside security and is the only way to get to them. It's more correct to say that the train drops you off near the terminal building (check-in/baggage claim) and from there you can either go through the...

The L creates a range of time that the train can depart while still being officially on-time in the view of the detraining and through passengers who in most cases are the vast majority of the passengers involved. So if L means can depart up to three minutes early and the scheduled station time...

The logic of the numbers of the Transcon (Midwest to West Coast) trains has always been obvious to me: they're numbered in sequence from south to north: Sunset is 1/2, then go north to the SW Chief which is 3/4, north to the CZ for 5/6, and then further north to the EB for 7/8. 9/10 was...

I was on the last Canadian (the WB departure from Toronto on 3/11/2020) and they made the shutdown announcement on-board. We were somewhere east of Saskatoon at the time and I half-expected them to terminate us at Edmonton. But we continued on to Vancouver arriving almost 12 hours late so we...

I believe so. Certainly cars with single rooms (e.g. cars with roomettes) had a defined front so that the one seat in those rooms faced forward. You see this today (ignoring that they're all currently suspended) with Via's Manor and Chateau sleepers which both have true single-person roomettes.

I've run into that issue as well. OTOH, I have dealt with an airline website that would let me book a delayed previous-day flight. And for the most part, getting through security, Customs and Immigration (Canada pre-clearance flight), and into the partner-airline lounge mostly worked - with two...

And hence the reason for the 1105 train number as on 8/5, 8/19, 9/2, 9/15, and 9/26, there will be two westbound trains from SLC - 1105 at 1:07am and 5 at 11:30pm.

This actually boggles my mind since diesel locomotives are designed to run equally well either way and other F40s aren't similarly plagued. Plus until recently, it was standard to run locomotives back-to-back (think of those classic A-B-B-A sets of 50 to 60 years ago; plus Amtrak regularly ran...

Hmmm. Of course, just because one person posted it doesn't make it true. A traction motor and wheels/axles/trucks certainly don't care. And plenty of F40s (Metra in my area) run backwards (pushing) at 79mph (plus Amtrak ran them back-to-back in the past). There are pictures out there of VIA...

All locomotives are capable of running full speed backwards. The traction motors don't care what direction they're going. Locomotives are not like automobiles with multiple forward gears but only a single reverse gear. The issue, as I understand it, is the HEP wiring. Unlike Amtrak, where only...

Probably not as simple as it sounds. Unlike today's Amtrak sleeping cars, many (most) sleeping cars back then had a forward end so even an NYC to RI move should have involved taking the car to a wye and turning it. Having recently ridden VIA's Canadian with its classic sleeping cars, all of them...

No new information as to what happened but now on the move out of Glenview a little over seven hours late. As it happened under buildings and out of sight, it seems to have escaped the attention of the Chicago media.

All I have is Metra is tweeting about delays to Milwaukee District trains due to a derailment on Amtrak #1007 (which is apparently a special number for today's Empire Builder, I assume due to tonight's time change). It impacted the 2:30 Metra departure on the West line so presumably right after...