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I thought CSX offered its Homestead branch for sale to some sort of Florida governmental unit. I don't think the governmental unit accepted the offer.

I was under the impression that European railroads were eliminating compartments in favor of open seating.

Why would you think a merger between two large freight carriers would pave the way for a new LD train? Certainly CP and KCS aren't thinking about it.

I think MeLittleMe has the right idea. A connecting bus between the Amtrak station in Flagstaff and the GCR station/hotel in Williams would certainly fill the bill. Transferring a coach and/or sleeper from Amtrak to the Grand Canyon would be a time-consuming and expensive operation. The Grand...

Texas isn't building the Dallas-Houston HSR, a private company is. And the state legislature has put many obstacles in its path, thanks to complaints from land owners along the way.

Street running is quite dangerous and slow. Anyone running a railroad should avoid it at all costs. The ones in existence today are based on historical decisions that would be avoided if someone was building a route today.

Given Amtrak's mysterious accounting system, it is probably impossible to answer this question. It all depends on how overhead costs are allocated to each train. Some people on this board have argued that the eastern long distance trains do make a profit based on "above the rail" costs. There...

I agree. We shouldn't waste out time talking about this.

Yet Metra Electric operated with fixed seating from the 1970's to the delivery of the HIghliner II's -- without any massive passenger revolution.

The train under consideration would be financially backed by Montana. It would under the best circumstances connect with the EB on both ends. It would probably be coaches and a cafe car. Anything else would be wild speculation. The issue of a revived Pioneer has nothing to do with the proposed...

It's a ghost alert!!! The spirit of the Sunset East is haunting Amtrak.

I guess I owe an apology to a couple of AU'ers from Michigan. You were right. I was wrong.

Let's see, one of the guys in charge of the equipment says one thing, yet you agree with somebody who is just expressing an opinion without any backing. Good thinking.

Last seen they were at the coach yard south of Union Station, awaiting testing.

Calm down, you shouldn't get physically sick over some Amtrak equipment decision.

Quite frankly, if and when Brightline runs trains to Jacksonville, I doubt if they would want Amtrak to muck up their schedules.

They got laid off.

Who?

Jis is right. There were plans to move Amtrak to the former Union Station, but NS killed the plan because the 5-10 minutes four times a day Amtrak would stop at the station would somehow terribly disrupt their switching at the South Bend yard.

I would think a backup move might add an hour or move to the LSL's already overlong schedule. It's really not worth the effort for the number of passengers that would be served. Buffalo Central Terminal is too big a white elephant to be revived (with no big pockets corporation around to fund the...