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The 1936 Olympia cars were the newest that I saw on the West lines when I was stationed there in 69-71. The 1940-1943 Peenemunde cars were kept for the East lines.

We would have used it had it been offered. We did use a Superliner Family Bedroom when our son was a bit older. That was in the contract for a union shop. And it was so important that political campaigns of both major parties used union printers so that the bug would appear on their literature.

Like the IC Electric, it began life as steam-powered suburban trains, which gradually evolved into rapid transit. The locomotives even displayed destination signs. Eventually, like the IC, they stepped back and took a look at the whole thing. So, the electrification and the branding as a...

Yes, when we were setting up what became the Raton Thruway connection, we took a look at LAJ and could see that they were set up for what looked like 35 ft buses.

The NP was pretty friendly and when they did cut back a service there usually was not a howl because people knew that they had tried to make it work. Tried new types of equipment. Experimented with new types of fares. Kept service to university towns by using RDC's. (Photo at Lewiston...

A lengthy interview with the managing director appeared in Berliner Zeitung of July 7th. https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/mensch-metropole/berlin-s-bahn-chef-peter-buchner-schwer-zu-sagen-ob-man-gerade-im-westen-oder-osten-ist-li.2232060 It included this information [Google translation]: On...

When we did the 1975 Oregon Intercity Bus Study, there were people who had been around in the early, unregulated days who could tell you what was wrong before the PUC's and ICC were imposed on the industry. That was my dad's generation. He lived to be 100, so at the end of his life he...

A couple of Flixbus notes... Elimination of the Noon PDX>SEA trip has resulted in high Sunday fares on the adjacent 1040 and 1500 trips that are comparable to Amtrak coach fares for the 1040 and 1410 trains. For Sunday, July 7th, both of those trains are sold out. For some reason...

And sometimes in ABQ a commuter train is also in the station.

As I have drawings for the Tempo cars, including the cafe and first-class cars that I saw regularly in Denver, I figured we'd get this straightened out.

Another use of aluminum was in the CN Tempo fleet, seen here ahead of the dome on the Rio Grande Ski Train.

A smaller slide... https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/slide-causes-service-disruption-on-durango-silverton-narrow-gauge-railroad-in-southwest-colorado/vi-BB1pj19Z?ocid=socialshare

In 2015 I was in Indianapolis on a trip from Denver to Chattanooga and return. I'd already heard about it (the last time I used it before was in 1969), so I was ready to deal with it. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who didn't have experience riding Greyhound. By Murphy's law, Train 6 was...

Our Edmonton Transit CCF Brill trolley coaches were aluminum and were in service on heavy lines for 24 to 30 years, about twice as long as typical transit buses.

At times they also ran a PDX<>SEA coach, but despite the extra seats there were trips with standees. On one trip I rode PDX>TAC with no seat.

MU operation in freight service even included the Milwaukee Road's "two Joes and a Geep" combining two electric locomotives and one diesel-electric. The electric locomotives were added for the Cascade and Rocky Mountains.

Here's where we changed engines from electric to steam -- Narbonne -- for the journey to the Spanish border. The stretch with steam power with water on both sides is south of Narbonne and north of Perpignan.

The mud and rocks have been removed and the D&S is open again for the Durango<>Silverton trips. 2001, but timeless.

Ideology on the right, lack of interest on the left or right, gadgetbahn preferences on the left and right. When we (RTD) were designing the skyRide coach network for the new Denver airport, the Jefferson County commissioners sent us a nasty letter about how there was only one park-n-Ride...

As one of the instigators of the original Pioneer, I came to the same conclusion. Two years into the service, an Amfleet-1 car was the lead coach on Train 26 leaving Portland.