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The omelette / scrambled eggs and the burger / patty melt are just slightly different ways of serving the same things. Dessert choices have gone from three to two. Oh well, I guess we can be grateful they're still staffing the dining cars...

The sleepers for the Empire Builder are in the pool in Chicago, so as more sleepers are re-upholstered, there will be more for the Empire Builder. I think a there is a bigger difference between a Superliner I (which were truly refurbished around 2000) and a Superliner II (which retain the...

Was the chicken still being served with Durkee's Potato Sticks topping? I thought that was bizarre!

There was one for sale advertised on Facebook here. A hovercraft would be ideal for transportation between the main town on the island and Bellingham, the nearest city. There only is an occasional 3-passenger Cessna plying the route now. The Washington State Ferry leaves from the other side...

Here are the different US-Asia flights I've seen go overhead: SIA 24 A359 SIN-JFK UAL 882 B789 HND-ORD AAL 60 B789 NRT-DFW ANA 12 B77W NRT-ORD DAL 859 A359 ATL-HND DAL 296 A359 HND-ATL EVA 32 B77W TPE-JFK UAL 7 B772 IAH-NRT PAC 958 B748 CVG-NRT DAL 276 A359 HND-DTW FDX 13...

When I lived on Maui around 1982, United Airlines was just starting direct flights from the mainland. At that time, the runway at Kahului was deemed too short for a fully-loaded DC-8 to take off, so the flights were routed from Maui to Hilo, where they would fuel up for the trip across the...

Normally, you would be able to have dinner in the dining car. If you are traveling in a room, your Attendant will have made a reservation for you. If you are traveling coach, dinner is space-available for $45 per person. There may be restrictions on dining car availability on this final leg...

It wasn't apparent to me where origin and destination were on this site, although it gave the tail number for the aircraft (you have to pay extra to get that on FlightAware).

When I hear an airplane flying over, I like to know what kind of plane it is, and where it's coming from and going to. I use FlightAware, which identifies all commercial traffic and some smaller planes. It identifies Canadian military flights, but not US military flights. The vast majority of...

3. When the Superliner I's first came out, the accommodations were called "Deluxe," "Economy," "Special," and "Family;" all with the suffix "Bedroom." The fixture you saw labeled "Economy Bedroom" in a Family Bedroom was undoubtedly a replacement using excess or salvaged stock. Also, the...

For a truly luxurious experience, get a Bedroom (or two joined as a Suite if you can afford that). On June 1, one Bedroom for two seniors is $3,453 from Chicago to Emeryville.

Last time I rode the Empire Builder to Portland, my Bedroom A was on the end--not the Roomettes--and it gave me a private view out the railfan window. From watching the Empire Builder as well as other trains quite regularly in videos posted on Facebook, I think the orientation of the Portland...

I recall riding a diesel rail car on British Railways on a branch line in Cornwall around 1990 that had a manual gear shift of sorts. But my impression from riding RDC's was that they had an automatic shift. I hope it's not too far off-topic to add that I had a fleet of HO scale RDC's that...

It is not possible to book a Roomette on a certain side, since it is uncertain which way the car will be oriented,

I have traveled in the Family Bedroom three times: once (San Jose-Seattle) with my wife, once (Seattle-St. Paul) alone, and once (St.Paul-Seattle) with my sister. The room is very spacious, and has (small) windows on both sides. When traveling with someone else, we each tended to each sit by a...

Another landslide...

I am making a complete guess here--you have been warned. Maybe they're fixing that awful siding for the station itself, which is possibly jointed rail even. Last time I came through on the northbound Starlight, the switch at the south end malfunctioned and we had to go past the station then...

Breakfast is not served in the dining car on initial departure of the Coast Starlight.

When I rode, the Pioneer was combined at Denver (from the Museum of Railway Timetables, The Museum of Railway Timetables (timetables.org)) : The consist the day I rode (May, 1994) included what I considered to a a new and interesting Transdorm in a Phase IV paint scheme. This remains the...

It was not really allowed, but I think rules were a little more relaxed then. I stopped doing it after 9-11; transportation rules in general were tightened then. On this trip, I also opened the door of my sleeper to let a passenger off when our SCA was nowhere to be found at the other...