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I'm looking forward to the rest of your report. Very clever thinking in linking the bus shuttle routes to get all the way from Ann Arbor to Toronto.

It probably all depends on the number of passengers transferring from one train to another. If there's 30 to 40 passengers transferring from say, the LSL, to the Southwest Chief, then they'll hold the train, if there's only one or two they won't.

When we went on a Pacific coast cruise several years ago, we took a van service from LAX to a hotel in San Pedro. The next day, the hotel offered van service to the cruise terminal. Definitely arrive in LA the day before your cruise leaves. It's not worth the hassle to arrive the same day.

With everything going on in the world of passenger railroading, we're worried about matching stripes!

The Heritage Corridor is definitely the Metra line with the least service. It originated with a single Gulf, Mobile and Ohio commuter train. After Metra took over, several new trips were started. The line probably has the lowest population of any Metra route, so that probably helps explain the...

it doesn't seem unusual to me that front line employees would not know the reason behind a management decision. In large companies, management sends out various decrees without any reasoning behind them. Hearing flight attendants complain (or praise) some management decision directly...

The St. Charles Air Line revamp along with the new entrance to CUS from the Air Line will negate any use of the Grand Crossing plan. The Grand Crossing plan would just put more Amtak trains on NS, and we know what that means, more delays. The use of the South Shore route for the Michigan and LD...

The site in the picture is the former Monon Railroad right of way that NICTD will use to build the West Lake Corridor. It will end on the north side of Dyer, just a bit north of the present CSX route used by the Cardinal and the Dyer Amtrak station. A short section of track would be needed to...

Are you still bare foot? Do you still have feet?

I guess the resumption of service negates all those comments on this board that the train "will never return." Guess some people don't have as much inside information as they think they do.

A high density high speed frequent service between two huge metropolitan areas and a single long distance train meanadering between two places thousands of miles apart are not compatible. Texas Central would tap a large market of people traveling between two metropolitan areas. High speed and...

The street running in Michigan City is right now being replaced. There will be a two track railroad, separated from a one-lane road.

Whoever owns and dispatches the track wins.

Routing Amtrak trains away from Norfolk Southern is a solid idea. The railroad has proven itself to be incapable of handling passenger trains on an on-time basis. Rerouting on to the South Shore would pretty much guarantee better handling. Of course there might be some delays during rush hour...

Freight trains usually don't run on any set schedule. They could run at any time. A radio scanner would be helpful in hearing communications between trains and the dispatcher.

Building something on a space allocated for a new passenger station will only delay and increase the cost of the station. These multi-million dollar developers can build their condos and office buildings on other sites.

It's called temporal separation. Light rail runs during a designated time, freight runs at its designated time. Never at the same time.

Check out the RailTours Ireland First Class section on the Irish Rail website. They offer a variety of one-day tours out of Dublin, as well as two-to-three day tours. My wife and I did a number of one day tours while we were in Ireland many years ago and they were excellent. We got to see a lot...

Has there ever been a set out coach on the SWC?

So, it's just a fancy name for the north end waiting room.