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I enjoyed riding the TEE Rheingold and local trains on the left bank line, but this was interesting on the right bank. Here is how it looked in 1971.

Greyhound's and Trailways' solutions to overnight connections (usually misconnects) has been to invite customers to sleep on station benches with the condition that if they left the station, they would not be permitted to come back in till the station opening hour. I experienced that in SLC...

In the meantime: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukrainian-forces-disrupt-russian-railways-causing-logistical-chaos/ar-AA1oQEbv?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDGEESS&cvid=5855f1b76414484a8508ef83c67886b6&ei=52

I recommend viewing the Critical Past site's 1945 film of the North Platte Canteen or the YouTube clips. Somehow wives of UP employees knew about the "Mains" (troop trains). There's a good book about it by a Chicago Sun-Times journalist. It's really difficult to keep operations a secret...

Both of those stations are closed during the night. That makes a difference.

Capture of the Sudzha railway station said to have been a potential intelligence bonanza. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/kyiv-may-have-hit-intelligence-gold-mine-with-kursk-train-station-capture/ar-AA1oMkwJ?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDGEESS&cvid=2b2c306438c947bf97f436ceab646e35&ei=25 On the other...

Denver handled it, and that was before the A, B, G, N, R and W-Lines were built.

I've found that Davis is an excellent place for an overnight between trains.

To summarize, there was a Jack Benny routine where he is at the race track and a tout sidles up to him and stage-whispers "take the Chief. It's a sleeper!" As noted above, the Chief gets better westbound if it runs late.

The Denver <> Salida <> Gunnison <> Crested Butte route from Union Station is an Amtrak Thruway service with lots of scenery. It's on a schedule with a mellow connection to Train 6 and from Train 5 in Union Station. 2001 - bear has just run across US285 between Salida and Denver.

Greyhound and its series of owners made the mistakes. Flix knew what the situation was when they went into it. In a hard-nosed way they are teaching Americans how to do business their way, with municipalities providing bus stations. They lost some time due to the Covid pandemic, and they...

This is different than the first BART train under the Bay. Back then some commuters didn't even look up from their newspapers. I worked with an engineer who with some other Cal students was on the scene for the first Trans-Bay trains over the bridge. At least one operator took a trainload of...

And there are a lot of alternatives for what to do. There just was an ad on my radio for their wine festival. Of course, there's the national park...

It was the Southern that initially chose not to participate. The SP handed intercity service to Amtrak on Day One.

I notice that EUG is in this collection, too, showing 16 departures. The University of Oregon shows 5 Thruway trips to PDX and a separate code. SLM and SPK show the number of departures, but there is no second stop location.

The Denver canopy was designed to respect the station facade and people complain about it not covering everything.

Here's the PDX to SEA line-up for Sunday, August11th as of Wednesday night. 0645 AT $47/$87 0715 FB $32 0830 AT $53/SO 0830 FB $30 1040 AT $36/SO 1040 FB $36 1410 AT SO/SO 1500 FB $33 1556 AT SO/--/$211 1755 AT $59/SO 1910 FB $32 1925 AT $47/$87 2115 FB $29 And here's PDX to SPK: 0645 AT...

On June 12th Zephyr pointed out that it would have to be two hours or less to beat the highway time. I don't know that the tunnel ventilation would handle fast and frequent Diesel-powered trains. These two issues likely make it unlikely.

Here's a clue. MKE shows 24 departures, and the airport shows 14 departures. This is parallel to the PDX situation, in which the number of departures indicates where the main station is.

Wolf Point, Montana is a potential break in your journey. I'm sure there will be some other suggestions, but this is an interesting part of the frontier. Unfortunately, the city museum is only open in summer months. https://www.visitmt.com/contact for more Montana info. If you have a sleeper...