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The atmosphere at the time, especially after the 1967 removal of the Railway Mail Service on most routes, was that disappearance was inevitable. That included the NEC, except for commute services. The Stanford study, which was widely publicized, pointed in that direction. What was missing in...

Daniel DeMelo, District 3. He had a lot of comments on transit issues.

I suspect that Biaggini was referring to the mid-1960's Stanford Research Institute study that projected the end of intercity rail passenger service to come in the 1970's. That the SP paid for the study, done at an entity named for the son of one of the company's founders, struck some...

From this distance, it's possible to visualize this as a set-up for a big real estate deal involving the former Greyhound block and adjacent Union Station property. Portland is switching to a new city government system, so it's hard to say how things will work out. My grandfather was on the...

I grew up in Portland and can remember only two earthquakes that caused visible damage in the city. In the 1950's I remember watching the sidewalk in front of our house crack, just like in the movies (except smaller). In the 1960's I was walking up the stairs at home and lost my footing when...

Condensed history: In the early years of Amtrak, the Portland Terminal Co. considered tearing down the building and replacing it with a piggyback yard. Amtrak looked into a location near the Willbridge interlocking, on the Linnton bus line. Tri-Met tied up the process by getting a federal...

I'm not familiar with the current status, but Greenfield was 100% Boston & Maine in all four directions from one station.

CDOT schedules meetings on Mountain Rail study. Not certain what the graphics mean... A more modern approach is likely to be taken when ColoRail holds its fall meeting in Fort Collins on Saturday, November 16th.

A note about Denver -- re-check in Google or in the RTD Trip Planner before planning a stop, because the pandemic caught RTD just as it was beginning a route restructuring. It's now, timetable by timetable, catching up with that. At the rate they're going, combined with the operator shortage...

My Army colleague who lives in Ferndale, WA (long ago a stop on the SEA <> VAC mail train) was picking up cell service from British Columbia at home. He's an electrical engineer, so he understood how that was happening, and eventually worked out a concession from his carrier. Then they were...

When I rode in summertime, there was a second attendant. I remember that well, because of the comparison with the Northern Pacific cafeteria-style car on Pool Trains 407/408 that served good food, including freshly made sandwiches with a two-man crew. They added a third man for clean-up on...

In 52 years of riding Amtrak, I've been on an overbooked train once, and that was on what is now the Cascades route, but in unreserved coaches.

There are some ideas in this thread. https://www.amtraktrains.com/threads/northern-puget-sound-by-rail-bus-and-boat.85242/#post-1008756

Sometimes there are lower fares by traveling on earlier dates or later dates. My sister used to organize family Thanksgiving on Friday or Saturday, and air and rail fares were lower or at least available. For a first trip on the route, the longer days offer more scenery. I've made the trip...

Oregon was way ahead on that -- until the Interstate program came along with the Bureau of Public Roads and 92% Federal funding. Originally, what is now I-5 through Portland's East Bank of the Willamette and the majority Black districts of North Portland was going to pass Portland on the west...

According to this hand-out, the SP cars were wonderful. I think this was from my once in a lifetime on the San Joaquin Daylight in the summer of '68.

The Superliner urn always looks like someone just thought of it the day before. On the other hand, if it goes bad order, it can just be pitched out.

Oregon was headed that way, starting in 1975, but there's been a lot of staff turnover, and it looks as though they've been drifting. 2008 on US20 - sabotaged in 1997 by discontinuance of the Pioneer.

That's it. It was linked to a discussion that I came across long ago.

Since the 1920's, Berlin has had the goal of having every main line make such a suburban stop at a location with good access to rapid transit. It's taken a while, due to a 50-year interruption. The attached map shows rapid transit and regional rail lines. Spandau is on the upper left.