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Boy, that's a really technical question. You have a sleeper ticket, but it's not out of Chicago, so you're not really a sleeper passenger until Bloomington. How much money did you save by short-circuiting the sleeper ride until Bloomington? If you want to save money, why not St. Louis...

The only people who benefit from class action suits are the lawyers.

Look above, it's a former CN car.

FRA DOTX 221 is a track survey car that is basically automated. There may have been no passengers on board.

A big part of a conductor's job is to remind engineers of speed restrictions, maintenance of way work, etc.

Trains News Wire is reporting that Amtrak will begin assigning Viewliner II sleepers to New York section of Lake Shore Limited.

Let me take that back. I just looked at the latest South Shore schedules and there doesn't seem to be any flag stops. A quick view of Metra schedules show flag stops are made by notification of conductor or by standing in sight of engineers. No flashing lights.

Not Metra. The South Shore Line still has a couple of flag stops with flashing lights.

You're reading too much into this. This is just an early pitch promoting what might be possible. Once Amtrak goes into meetings with state officials, I'm sure the details will be correct.

Orieus was proposing this as a one-time special train, not a new route. In any case, I doubt if any special trains will be run until the Covid situation is under control --- and I doubt if an Autumn Express would be run on some out-of-the-way route over short lines.

The last run for this year is Oct. 23. I don't think Rocky Mountaineer runs all year long in Canada, either. It's strictly a spring-summer-fall operation.

Rocky Mountaineer opened up its wallet.

Isn't most of that route already owned by Metrolink and Coaster? In many metropolitan areas, Amtrak's routes are either owned by Amtrak (such as the approaches to Chicago Union Station) or commuter authorities. There are some corridors where it would make sense for public authorities to own...

The Amish have compounds in Mexico. Why wouldn't they travel to Florida?

I believe CSX sold the line to a short line operator.

Why? Are we living in the 1940's?

Restablishing service over what is essentially an abandoned line is always complicated. No project of this scale is easily -- or cheaply -- done.

OK, I didn't think Austin and eBART were commuter rail and frankly, I never heard of the Cotton Belt Line and the Redlands operation, so I guess Stadler does have a big part of a small market. Let' see if Amtrak's Tucson-Phoenix plans pan out and see whose interested in possibly building DMU's...

Let's see. As far as I can determine, Stadler supplied DMU's for TEXrail and DCTA in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, is building EMU's for CalTrain and is building 10 superdome cars for Rocky Mountaineer. Anything else? Only the CalTrain order could be considered a major purchase. So they're not...

Once again, we have an AU member boosting Stadler products. I've become very suspicious of this. I never see anybody suggesting the products of other manufacturers. If I starting writing posts pushing Amtrak or some commuter authority to buy Stadler products, would I get, shall we say, a little...