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Yeah... even daily is way below adequate, but we can't even do that. Even three-a-week is way below adequate, but we can't even do that for a lot of America's large cities. Oh well. It's hard to establish rail in rural areas because yes, indeed, a once a day dinky train isn't that useful. But a...

Well, technically we do... 6 times a week... [emoji6]

I think you're talking about the one Superliner car in between the other Surfliner cars. That car is now *sometimes* in business class now. In recent times, I've only had it be in business, though a few times it's in coach.

What if, for an early morning shift (say NE Regional 190 or Pacific Surfliner 759), one of the key employees like the engineer sleeps in and doesn't show up on time? I'd doubt there's just an idle engineer sitting around the station at 3 or 4am, and I don't know what else they'd do.

I'm dreaming/thinking/considering a trip to Bend using the bus from Chemult. What are some fun things to do around town besides the Deschutes River and the nearby Pilot Butte? I won't have a car then, so I can't go far outside of town. By the way, does Chemult have anything to do in it?

https://www.ridecabin.com/ There's now on overnight bus from LA to San Franfrisco at a moderate price. It's time for Amtrak to step it up and bring back the Spirit of California. Preferably from San Diego to Sacramento along the coastal route.

Everything would be more popular if there were more frequencies!

Wow. I did not think a 1/2 inch of rain from a dying hurricane could flood a place or kill anyone!

https://asm.transitdocs.com/train/2018/10/3/4 By analyzing the train tracker data I linked above, it stopped for 8 hours just past a crossing west of Kingman, and that's also where a siding is located, so I'm speculating that (1) it ran someone over there (and possibly a fatality, because it...

Take a look! The westbound 1 has been many hours late the past week or so! The new schedule doesn't seem to be helping on some runs that much. https://reservia.viarail.ca/tsi/GetTrainStatus.aspx?l=en&TsiCCode=VIA&TsiTrainNumber=1-&TrainInstanceDate=2018-10-05...

We'd need Amtrak to overthrow the government and seize all the railroads for a UK-style train system to happen.

I think the Kingman stop before the change is 12:28am, but 11:28pm after, so that'd mean an Amtrak 3 would depart Kingman twice in a day, so the second is numbered 1003. Trains 1, 2, and 4 don't have this problem because they don't have a stop in Arizona between 12am and 1am before the time change.

They still stop pretty frequently through Orange County at Irvine, Santa Ana, Anaheim, and Fullerton though. Carlsbad Poinsettia would be a nice middle point between Solana Beach and Oceanside, which are 20 mins apart by car (15 by train).

The lounge has bigger windows, so I'd try to do that either way.

If I can be cynical, then what if they're stealing sleeper cars from the SWC to depress its ridership, this giving them more evidence to be able to mess with the SWC?

You could have just bought a Coaster ticket at the station. Coaster is the local commuter rail service. Amtrak accepts Coaster tickets between San Diego and Oceanside on 561/1761, 567/1567, 573, 595, 584, 590/1588, 792, and 796 (not kidding). You won't get business class, but it's a whole lot...

They seem to change the stuff in the box every once in a while which is nice.

Equipment problems...

If you're quoting seat38a above, he referenced 48.3 million visitors to LA County, not the entire state of California. Additionally, Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm are in Orange County! Lots of tourists!

1 could be late due to the horribly (12 hour) late 21. Currently unmarked on the transitdocs map... last update was at Taylor at 5:30am.