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I have too, Rasputin, and in fact I agree with you. All things considered, I’ve done Tor-Van in first class more than once and it’s perfectly acceptable. In fact, on my most recent trip, at dinner I shared a table with a couple traveling in Prestige and they were having dinner from exactly the...

Wow! This is so cool! When I first posted my fantasy train trip msg, I never imagined I’d get so many neat replies from so many others who feel, one way or another, just like I do! Such neat replies make me wish even more that I could maybe find someone else to take a trip like this with...

I would agree with Maglev that many aspects of the level of service are enough justification. You can be confident you’re getting good quality. But even though it’s a luxury, I’d also add that as long as you know you can afford it, that alone puts it at least a little in the category of...

I agree in theory moving sea vans from one gauge car to another gauge car makes sense. I hadn’t thought of that. Don’t modify the cars; just move the “stuff” to a different car! As it happens, the article I read that made me think of this subject was about Slovakia moving many, many freight...

Thx.

I have no rail experience at all other than riding as a passenger. So I want to know how any railroad would accomplish something I read today about shipping weapons from Slovakia or Poland, etc., to Ukraine. Apparently the rails in Slovakia, Poland, and other Western European countries are a...

It continues to amaze me how effectively UP crews can repair this sort of damage whatever the damage is! Bravo, UP!

Glad to hear others would like trips like my fantasy trip too! Great minds train together!

Yeah that could work too. I did actually do a round the continent trip sorta like this a few years back. Greenville New Orleans LA Seattle Vancouver Toronto NYC Greenville. My wife flew out to Vancouver and we did that then the Canadian together as far as Edmonton and she flew home. Great trip.

Hehe. Thx., To be honest, one reason I did even fantasize about a trip like this at all is simply to know I’d done it! And, the fact is, except for the alimony, I could find a way to afford it if I decided to do it! I don’t have that much time left, and I can’t take it with me! 😝

I’ve got a fantasy trip I’d love to take, because Canada has always been one of my two favorite non-US countries. It’s only a fantasy, not even a “dream”, as I define those terms, because practically speaking there’s no chance it’ll ever happen, but I can still fantasize about it. I’d get to...

I can’t offer any statistics other than for a data sample of one, that being my own experience and attitudes! When the Crescent left—or at least aimed to leave—Clemson and Greenville (the only stations anywhere near sensible for me to use, living between them as I do) around 11 pm or so, it was...

. You got that right, Sidney! I’ve told my family for fifty years now (I’m 78) that watching the world go by out a train window is just about the most fun I can have sitting down! I’ve even told them that if I hadn’t already said I want them to cremate me, not bury me, my epitaph would be...

Same for me, Tricia. As badly as I want to get back on a train, any train, to anywhere, I just don’t think Amtrak has its act together quite enough at the moment to take that chance. Too much uncertainty. Sob…😰😰😰

Spoken like an experienced engineer, sir! I agree with you. If the pics we’ve seen are the bridge in question, that’s a lot of work even with prefabbed modules, etc. As you say, just moving it all to the job site takes time! However they did whatever they did, they did a marvelous job to get...

This is marvelous work! Anything in analog form (aka hard copy paper) that this ol’ near-Luddite can read in hand while enjoying a glass on my patio, as I’m doing now, would be wonderful! Great work, sir. Don’t forget to file on time!

I share your doubt that the fire of the huge wooden trestle was the fire we’re discussion but I could be completely wrong. Perhaps the video posted with the first msg on this thread was valid. I did see it in separate newspaper and local tv websites on the day of the event. On trainorders.com...

jis, could you pls paste links to other rail related sites that have posted new news about the repairs? I’ve googled every phrase I can think of about the event and I can’t find anything newer than three local newspaper or tv station blurbs right at the time of the fire. The engineer in me...

Kudos, yes, but I’m curious. The video of the fire itself that appeared in the OP that starts this thread made it appear the entire trestle was on fire. I don’t believe for a moment anyone could replace all those timbers in a couple days. So what did they do? One thing that occurs to me is...

2 seems to be running only btwn San Antonio and New Orleans. Anyone have new news about the fire itself? Or bridge rework?