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For arrival at Los Angeles, yes, but not for departure.

Looks like it isn't a direct train, so there may be an answer in determining which routing the website is trying to put you on.

They can sell slightly over the capacity and hope that some people cancel or miss the train. Or there may be some seats out of service.

I tried to find any rules in the CFR, but I couldn't determine the exact rule that applies to the open platforms. Best guess is that it is an off shoot of the vestibule rules, since they restrict when vestibule doors, traps, and windows can be open, and who can do so. Most of the time, the open...

I would recommend a vibration setting.

Been back to daily for more than half a year now.

Why would anyone do such a thing? </sarcasm>

A UP (I think) employee was convicted of stealing and selling locomotive horns, so this isn't surprising to me.

...there is a wall.

All P42 locomotives are DC motored.

This is the reason. BNSF requires a third unit during winter weather due to snow ingestion in the traction motors.

A GEO car is a track geometry measurement car, used to verify that the track meets certain standards, both internal to the railroad and as part of the federal track classification standards. They can be occasionally seen wandering the various systems of the railroads, and some of them have...

There is an often overlooked fourth portion of the station, the three track Light Rail platform area on the other end of the Bus terminal, next to the BNSF/UP joint line bypass of downtown.

Rear end collision, current iteration of PTC would likely not have prevented this on its own, since the rear end position of a train is NOT tracked by the PTC system. If this is dark territory, and if the correct dispatching procedure is followed, then a PTC system is supposed to stop a train...

While true, I don't think the current schedule is "Bad," but it is timed for daylight service on the populated portions of the route, which is better, IMHO. This happens to coincide with the beautiful terrain, so I don't see this changing any time soon.

The light rail cars are the ones that don't offer level boarding at all doors, at least in Denver.

My definition of a train is a vehicle that operates on a fixed guideway, and is wider than the direct contact area of the guideway. This excludes the Japanese version of the maglev technology, since the "Train" operates in a bathtub style guideway, where the guideway is wider than the "Train".

Best way to do that is to operate a second train...

Nothing compaired to the Train Mountain Railroad in Oregon, but they are in very different scales... 40 +/- actual miles of track.

Well, then lets take the FRA's suggestion and push for Chicago to MSP and St Louis, since those both were identified as being the best not currently undergoing development.