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It's going to be the Petoskey Stone Route!

Timber Steam Trains!! Awww, it's in Fraser! I wonder if the Fraser Brazier is there there...

Some of the cities and counties in Northern Indiana might chip in something since it would be a big benefit to them - if enough prod the state they might actually be more inclined to help. The state IS funding the South Shore branch to Munster.

It's a diagram, not a specific track map (of course, since it's showing a route to Dubuque through "Rutherford" Illinois*, it does make one wonder....). *There IS a Rutherford, Illinois, but it is much further south in Champaign County (SE of Urbana) but it does have two RR's that cross there...

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Cleveland daytime service is low hanging fruit. Considering the terrible hours ridership is pretty good. It would be many times larger with multiple trains at convenient hours just on the LSL routing and if you added in Detroit and the other two C's...

I was telling my mother about the quartz mine and mentioned the name (she's from Tennessee) and was "Oh, Spruce Pine, yes, I know it" - she had a college classmate from there (She's class of '49, undergrad).

Is there still a plan for rail west to Tooele or that general area? I have to chuckle that the rail agency/service is also the name of a gay running themed novel....

More time to enjoy the views!

Pufferbelly Station is pretty good - huuuge portions and great people watching (and the CZ right outside the windows). Downtown GJCO has a fair number of restaurants and bars, as well as shops, etc. It's a regional center for the area. If you go, a stop at Enstrom's Toffee is of course, mandatory.

Interestingly, Chicago's major arterial Expressways, the Dan Ryan, Stevenson and Kennedy (with it's NW Expressway/NW Tollway and Edens extensions) were built, in large part, adjacent to existing rail corridors which already divided communities (and in the Stevenson's case, was primarily...

I'd suggest Amways..... but I think that's taken...

Trying to figure out when we took the train to Miami (probably boarding in Hammond - or would it have been elsewhere in NW Indiana at the time?) - I think it was 1974 which a quick google tells me the likely convention/conference my dad was attending occurred. I just remember waking up and...

What weird suggestions... A few blocks west of CUS is Greektown and the West Loop which is a newly developed residential area and costs to buy property and demolish anything would be astronomical after the expensive fights to condemn or get property through eminent domain or expropriation...

It's interesting how quickly Poland regained Central European standards over the past - hard to believe it's that long - 30 years. I was still a teen when the country fell out of the Soviet orbit (and had visited before that a few years). Google mapping various cities most of Poland looks like a...

I've flown with a collapsible hiking poles - carried in, of all things, a bag chair bag - with no issue, but if there are pointed tips or spikes, that's where the problems arise. I've heard of hikers not being able to carry them on, but I can't imagine it would be an issue @ or w/ Amtrak.

What's the ridership like on the Amtrak bus routes in Wisconsin? They are fairly extensive. I think the Green Bay Corridor - if it happens - will be first since there was money granted for the corridor study.

Didn't somebody recently post a few pictures of the substations? And we are really getting off topic....

Apparently construction contracts have been let (well, signed in American parlance) as of yesterday - wonder if Joe B was at the signing - his motorcade passed us on the Stevenson last night.

Interestingly, we (we being the United States, specifically a locomotive mfr, GE maybe), was building the Soviets an electric locomotive after the war and when the cold war kicked into high gear it couldn't be sold to them so it went to like Brazil, iirc.

I would think not just the "commute" but also having regional rail as well as suburb to small town commutes would be served, plus tourism. Plus with WFH more of the norm in tech and high-paid professions, a slow once a week commute (more or less) is much more doable or tolerable.