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A million here, a million there ... pretty soon you're talking real money. While Illinois could pay to speed up a state supported train, the TE is a national network train, so the dollars (if that's the obstacle) would come from Amtrak.

LH 401 is JFK-FRA. Looking forward to following this report.

If one observes a price drop similar to the one in the thread title, I offer this advice: Bucket, Danno.

"Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Corporation shall provide through rail passenger service between Washington, D.C. and Chicago, via Cincinnati". Technically, a train routed WAS-PGH-CMH-CIN-CHI would have met the letter of the law. Commercially, it may have been relatively...

Solution: 3-rail dual gauge?

I know it's a figure of speech, but it seems like for Amtrak, getting thrown under the bus would be the ultimate indignity.

Actually a thread from 2003, temporarily revived in 2010. :wacko: I'll put a note in my calendar for 2024.

Until Congress actually votes on a budget resolution, appropriations bill, or continuing resolution, we do not know whether they want to cut, increase, or maintain Amtrak's funding.

Exactly. Had they been riding the Zephyr instead of relying on their own transportation, there would have been no disaster. But you cancelled the train during the off season and cannibalized the equipment for other routes, leaving them to their fate. :huh:

Excellent report, thanks for sharing!

Great trip report! I took that train from Paris to Berlin last April. Nicer than most sleepers in my experience; very comfortable and well maintained. I tried to book on the first day the tickets were supposed to be available, with no luck on the RZD site, so I used Rail Europe instead, which...

With a private room of course it's not an issue. Shared rooms in most hostels, including the American in Seattle, have lockers in each room, generally big enough for a large suitcase. Bring a padlock or use one of theirs for a small fee.

Surely there's a way to route it through PHL. :huh:

The fact that it's in the Viewliner II thread just makes it twice as funny. ;)

There's the express bus to South Beach, half a dozen other local bus routes that don't serve Hialeah, a dozen or so car rental locations, several hotels within walking distance, and of course the airport. All of which can be reached by transferring to TriRail, though the percentage of potential...

The ability to not "check in" at all that Amtrak and most passenger railroads around the world are offering is a big plus. If you have a ticket, whether paper or electronic, just go to the train. Why would there be a need for another step in the process?

Somehow, just about all 700,000 of them manage to get to the right platform and onto the train without check-in, boarding passes, seat checks, priority boarding groups, gate deadlines, and other artificial bureaucracy (except Eurostar, due primarily to Schengen border control).

I remember informational displays in Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof from 10 years ago; apparently it's now scheduled for completion in 2023. Merkel's mention of Paris to Prague could be considered alliterative advertising; Mannheim to Munich might have mitigated the assumption that she was referring to...

City Night Line is gone after 11 December. ÖBB will take over some routes; not sure what equipment they will use, but they also have some bilevels. See http://seat61.com/news.htm for more info. They do presently operate Hamburg-Vienna, which I imagine would continue but is not specifically...

To be slightly more accurate: Both. The border of Champaign and Urbana is Wright Street which cuts wright through the middle of campus, just west of the Quad. Champaign is to the west and Urbana is to the east. Green Street cuts right through the middle of campus the other direction, just...