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It still sounds like an awful lot of money to me. If 18 engineers and a project manager got paid $200,000 each per year, they would have to work five years on the project to cost $190 million, right?

If Gardner said, "Fifty years is it," and if he were right, that's a limit, not an average. But VIA proves him wrong. Still, there are so many passenger cars in service and of varying ages and at varying points in their service lives that I doubt the "average" number of 50 years; 50 sounds like...

Does the current sale allow a free companion for a round trip in roomette? Or is it only for a one-way ride?

Possibly helpful: the LIRR shares Moynihan. The departure signs in the waiting area list both Amtrak and LIRR trains, and as someone mentioned above, at one side of Moynihan there are escalators down to LIRR gates.

On Sep. 23, I rode Amtrak 607 from 30th St. Phila. to Lancaster, then a bus to Harrisburg. Returning I rode a bus to Lancaster, then Amtrak 652 to Paoli, where I transferred to Septa. No problems except that the reservation didn't give the bus arrival time at Lancaster, and I was surprised that...

My wife and I went to Vermont last year and used the local bus service. We stayed in Shelburne because Burlington was so expensive. We took the bus to the Shelburne Museum, to dinner, and to Burlington. I would like to visit Michigan again (been there once many years ago), and if I do I wouldn't...

I rode this line between Boston and North Adams around 1975 on a fan trip, and I rode MBTA commuter rail to Fitchburg and Gardner a couple of times. I’m not suggesting that I’m well informed about it, just that I have some acquaintance with the area and the line. Here are my thoughts after...

The change from Daylight Saving to Standard Time takes place at 3 am (3 becomes 2). So the departure and arrival times for that train leaving New York at 12:20 am would be correct; the train would arrive in Philly before the time change. But the computer seems to be subtracting an hour from the...

When VRE tickets were accepted on some Amtrak trains, VRE did include those Amtrak trains in its own timetables. And the Virginia Assn. of Railway Patrons used to compile schedules showing all the trains in Virginia (I used to do the compiling).

The Talgos might work well on the hills and curves between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, but they need a special maintenance base, right? I can imagine one at Altoona, but probably not for only two consists.

Great Cities of the World, published in 1958, says that among Trenton's industries were Lenox pottery and Roebling bridges. It specifically says that Roebling had a Trenton plant. The website of the City of Trenton Museum says that the company had plants in Roebling and Trenton. Sadly, Trenton...

I thought the Roebling works were outside Trenton in a part of Florence called Roebling. Trenton did have a good bit of industry in the city. You can see a few former factories east of the Trenton station.

"getting off earlier costs more (Newark Airport, for example)": I think that the higher cost for getting off at Newark Airport is to pay for the monorail fare to get to the airline terminals.

The Metro "Milestones & History" web page (https://www.wmata.com/about/history/) says, "The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) was created by an interstate compact in 1967 … Metro began building its rail system in 1969 … and began operating the first phase of Metrorail in...

From what I recall (I don't have a source to cite for this) the Blue Line was supposed to go through Georgetown, but Georgetown didn't want it and didn't get it.

"Metro did not get started because the freeway got stopped. Metro was already in the plan." I got that information from "The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro" by Zachary M. Schrag (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004): "The 1959 Metropolitan Transportation...

The cheaper real estate is why freeways were built through minority neighborhoods. And sometimes the middle class rebelled too, which is how an urban freeway inside Washington, DC, got stopped, and Metro got started instead.

With the Sep. 8 schedule changes, Septa plugged some (maybe all) of the two-hour gaps in regional rail service. The Media and Sharon Hill trolleys still have lame weekend evening service: hourly.

I got 4x. I had to confirm my identification with a secret number twice. We have a Keystone trip from Philly to New York scheduled to use up a voucher, but we still had to pay for part of the ticket. I might make a round trip Philly to Harrisburg this month. Total cash spending for both trips...

Philadelphia-Brunswick is a trip I would like to make if the Rockland service is restored.