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I know this is way late, but it got rejected for now https://www.railwayage.com/news/tennessee-pass-revival-on-hold-for-now/ Other reporting https://www.railwayage.com/freight/short-lines-regionals/tennessee-pass-revival-its-complicated/

As mentioned before, overnight trains are not just for people going from city center to city center in either terminus. People like me could very easily be traveling from one suburb to another. It’s not like downtowns of major cities have a monopoly on office space. Someone could very easily be...

Depends on the railroad and depends on when. Some railroads like the Chicago Great Western figured they'd be on the short end of the stick in 1945 and others didn't face problems until much later. The UP and BN were such examples of facing problems later. From what I can tell, people say there...

Financial gold mines, no. Less money losing and small profit, potentially. Railroads didn't even want to try to compete in the 50s and were happy to cede as much of the market as they could get away with by and large until Amtrak was created. Some railroads figured in the 30s that cars would be...

"Died" really isn't the right term to describe what happened to the easy overnight trips in the US rail network prior to Amtrak. A lot of companies (notably the Southern Pacific and the Chicago & Northwestern) ran their trains into the ground in a bid to get rid of them because they didn't want...

The main issue with Amtrak's beginning is that it's manadated to maintain a national network to provide a balanced transportation system, but there is and was absolutely no definition of what that would mean in practice. And to this day there is no discussion on what that would mean as far as...

This isn't an exhaustive list: New York - North Carolina DC - Atlanta DC - Cincinnati Chicago - St Paul Chicago - Nashville Chicago - Fort Worth Chicago - Denver Denver - Fort Worth Denver - Salt Lake City Denver - Albuquerque Denver - St Louis Kansas City - St Paul Los Angeles - Tucson Los...

People bought or made their own wagon back then, it's not like they strolled down to Enterprise to rent one. Also, roads are generally owned by the public, the railways largely aren't. Railways are not obselete, shoving 90% of trips into cars is not healthy. Expanding highways is like solving...

You still can, with 90% less dysentery. You'd just have to get a horse, wagon and consult a map.

Their either going to figure out you can do level boarding at 25 inches or make everyone do a stair lift to 48 inches and reduce capacity. Those are your two options.

We can't have good transit cause something something self driving cars.

My point is also getting at the notion that there are more City pairs where this works than just New York and Chicago. Also, if you're working so late with other people on a day you know you're traveling up until a 7pm departure time, that's on you for being bad at time management, not Amtrak's...

A 12 hour trip also isn't terrible for an overnight hop. The train leaving the terminal stations at 7pm for a 7am arrival wouldn't break the bank time wise. Especially if you live in a suburb around a big city and are on the opposite side of the airport. I would use such a train to get to LA if...

There is also the kill joy who thinks pointing out Amtrak needs new equipment is a got ya and not just basically everyone's assumption at this point.

I personally think Auto Trains outside of the one we already have could work, but it would probably be seasonal for the most part and would need to be run as a separate train. I do think the Zephyr could sustain a summer season Auto Train with stops in Northern California, Salt Lake City...

I follow this couple on YouTube and they run a blog that talks a lot about Amtrak and their other travels in the US. https://www.groundedlifetravel.com/

Another thing that also needs to be factored in isn't just time, but distance. As I have pointed out a few different times, the average long distance trips we take are between 100 and 300 miles with respects to ground transportation. These distances are generally too short to fly and depending...

Politics can and are changing, the question that remains to be seen is if that will have an effect on Amtrak in any way. Amtrak's leadership is all talk as far as I'm concerned until I see results. Their 2035 "plan" shows how unimaginative they are. They can say they want a NightJet product...

Why aren't overnight trains able to compete with flying? My first point would be that Amtrak's network isn't dense enough to provide effective overnight service between most cities in this country. For a city pair to be fruitful as a pair, they need an 8 to 12 hour end to end run time. Amtrak...

The North Coast Limited ran the Northern Pacific route, so not the Empire Builder. The Empire Builder doesn’t run where most the people live. Los Angeles to Chicago already has plenty of service, (at least by Amtrak standards) there is not really a reason to add a new route to this. Amtrak...