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@Steve4031 Well done :) I did take the Sunset Limited from Miami to LA in 1994 but the Texas Eagle from Chicago to San Antonio is my big miss.

An updated review of where things stand https://www.sportico.com/business/real-estate/2023/msg-penn-station-redevelopment-explainer-1234731355/

Congratulations Nat At 84, he’d traveled the entire Amtrak map — except Boston to Brunswick. It was time to finish (Boston Globe 7/21/23)

A perfect example of the culture problems in Boston https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2023/07/20/mbta-state-fire-safety-code-red-line-charles-mgh-station-firefighters-standpipe-broken/?p1=hp_secondary

Sigh https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/delays-on-red-line-fire-department-responds-to-charles-mgh-station/3088269/

@Septa9739 - Do you think SEPTA will ever being streetcars back to Route 23?

A Greyhound bus crash involving multiple semi-trucks left three dead and 14 injured Wednesday morning near Highland, Illinois. Illinois State Police said the Greyhound bus hit three semi-trucks that were parked in the off-ramp on a rest stop on westbound I-70 just before 2 a.m. Officials told...

Eng concedes changing the culture especially with the unions is a challenge https://www.boston.com/news/the-boston-globe/2023/07/09/the-mbtas-new-leader-is-more-optimistic-about-bostons-subway-than-you-are/?p1=hp_secondary

https://montrealgazette.com/business/local-business/amtrak-cn-at-odds-over-suspension-of-daily-montreal-new-york-train

Metra will use its Milwaukee District West line and relationships with the Union Pacific Railroad to extend service beyond Elgin to reach Rockford, with expected stops in Huntley and Belvidere. The trip is expected to take about 95 minutes...

The Green Line Extension will not shut down later this month, as originally planned, a spokesperson for Gov. Maura Healey announced Wednesday. Service along the extension between Union Square and Lechmere stations was scheduled to be suspended from July 17 to Aug. 28 to make way for...

https://www.universalhub.com/2023/good-news-orange-line-isnt-fire-morning

The T will take the heat for this but again not their fault

Not the T's fault but they will be blamed for it

The T needs to bite the bullet and retire the Pullman-Standard cars before anything else happens https://www.universalhub.com/2023/system-meant-lock-doors-moving-red-line-trains NTSB report https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/RIR2307.pdf

Friday comes - more problems

https://www.universalhub.com/2023/you-might-have-another-decade-ride-old-pcc

It is stunning that in the 8 1/2 years since the contract was signed only 96 cars are in service. The first cars entered revenue service in August 2019, 4 years and 9 months after the deal was announced. What concerns me more is what a recently retired friend who worked at the T told me. He...