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I would have like to have seen more people with a railroad or even hospitality background, but at least the nominees seem competent and I don't see any anti-Amtrak fanatics among them.

I have to agree with Neroden. Koos will be an excellent appointment. He has been very active in promoting Amtrak service to his town and should be a good voice for the outside the Northeast Corridor operations. Lathan and Capozzi will represent labor and handicapped ridership and Weissman...

As far as I can tell, the only thing that would change would be running equipment through St. Louis from Chicago to Kansas City. It would not restore a second St. Lous-Kansas City train, nor eliminate the need for state subsidies on both sides of the Mississippi. With the exception of several...

I wonder if there will be an opportunity to ride behind the Big Boy. On last year's tour, the only trip that carried passengers was the one-way ride west out of New Orleans for astronomical prices. Everything else was watch the train from the tracks or take a look during an extended stop.

No trains on Mondays?

Weather forecasting was not nearly as advanced back in the "good old days." Today, if we know a 30-inch blizzard is heading our way, staying home is the prudent thing to do. Let's say Amtrak decides to send a train out in face of a blizzard or hurricane and that train derails or crashes into...

The problems won't be solved until Amtrak gets an entirely new board and Gardiner is booted from his job. I believe the appointments of all board members have expired. I would hope President Biden will soon appoint new members for the board, but there are a lot of other pressing matters for the...

It looks like the condo project probably doomed the Michigan City station. The new owners probably don't want the legal liability for people hanging out waiting for a train. In any case, the New Buffalo station is only 15 minutes away. Ironically, it's surrounded by condos.

It's not advertised as a through train. The only people who know the cars run through Chicago are Amtrak employees and railfans.

Sounds like Gilman is outperforming a lot of other places with its ridership. People who live in rural areas need to go to other places, too. Not everybody loves to drive for three or four hours.

Apparently crews hate working with anything new. Anytime a new locomotive comes on line there are multiple reports about how terrible they are, worse than anything every seen before, etc. Eventually everybody calms down and the new equipment works just fine. Reports of "everything is wrong with...

Wow, that's really cold. Too bad business executives like these can't arrested for being poor excuses for human beings.

First of all, it's a once-a-week train. So total ridership comes nowhere close to even Amtrak's current five days a week LD schedule. The fact that VIA is still running 70 year old cars is pitiful. Eventually even those Budds will wear out and become unsafe to operate. And VIA has no plans to...

I really enjoy your reports on your travel adventures. Keep them up.

Bob, you're a few years late in writing about Wisconsin officials. Now that Scott Walker is gone, WisDot has been active in plans to increase Hiawatha service and add an additional train along the Empire Builder route. Adding a train to Green Bay would be an excellent idea.

Shouldn't the people who live along the Brightline tracks realize by now that taking a chance may cost your life. Are all these people really that stupid?

This Peoria proposal just came out of nowhere. It's not part of the Midwest report and IDOT is probably leary of it since the failure of the short-term Prairie Marksman many years ago.

Seeing that the new state-owned cars just went into service on Tuesday, there haven't been any reports (that I've seen) on the comfort of the seats. One poster on AU has complained about Brightline seats, but that it.

The visitor center is the former Illinois Central station. It is very nicely restored.

Since 283 is a westbound train, there could have been commuter train interference on the Metro North Hudson Line that would have delayed the train. That would have been east of Utica.