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First of all with passenger rail I will admit to a strong bias in favor of overnight conventional long distance trains with full dining cars. And of course these trains can also serve short distance passengers wanting to travel between any city pairs along the route. So, what I'm wondering, if...

As someone above suggested could the article simply be copies and pasted into this discussion? My daughter and her husband will be including the Coast Starlight on an Amtrak trip and I think the article would interest them. With me living in Kansas and they living in Missouri I'm sure the...

Does anyone remember some great devils food cake desserts? I don't know when they disappeared - I think I'm remembering some really declious, maybe even three-layer chocolate or devilss food cake desserts from 2000 to 2006 or so. And I did email some address at Amtrak a few years ago to ask if...

Regarding Amtrak employees with less-than-desired customer service skills, here are some comments from earlier this month that I came across on another online forum that might be of interest: . . . . as we leave New Mexico this evening I have to say how disappointed I am in this trip. We...

I've wondered the same thing that The Crescent (above) was wondering. In my experiences the rude Amtrak employees I'm remembering were in the dining cars. And I don't travel that often - maybe 15 trips in the last 20 years. Maybe on a third of those trips I've encountered a waiter who, at...

Thank you, Railiner I guess that's also the same time we lost the Lone Star. Some kind of a route from Chicago to Florida seems to make a whole lot of sense. Of course that Floridian route provided some high population locales including Indianapolis that remains woefully underserved, and...

And speaking about Nashville, I was reminded about Nashville today when I heard that Dean Martin song, Little Ole Wine Drinker Me. You see, he was sitting in a bar in Chicago with a broken heart and a woman on his mind. He came to Chicago from Nashville where his baby had left for Florida on a...

I'm wondering if it would be best to take a taxi to that Hyatt across the tracks. Anyway, I've had only one occasion to stay in Emeryville for the purpose of switching from the Coast Starlight to the California Zephyr about 10 years ago. So my experience might have been just a statistical...

Even though the thread was about the Texas Eagle route I thought it would be interesting to list some of the radio stations along another western route - the Southwest Chief. Of course beginning in Chicago with the high-powered AM's of 670, 720, 780, and 890, that would be identical to the...

As mentioned above AM reception can be spotty, however if you're looking for news or other 'spoken word' programming such as weather and sports reports or community announcements, AM radio would probably have more of that type of programming than FM which is primarily music with shorter range...

Someone mentioned the mask mandate. I've forgotten when the current mandate expires. Does anyone know?

One of the comments above mentioned that - in some areas at least - it may not be legal to have a scanner programmed to police frequencies in a motor vehicle. I can remember that back in the 1960s the radio station I worked for had a station-owned car utilized by a news reporter that had a...

I will say that I haven't had the occasion to call Amtrak since Covid started, and this may have been answered before way back in this thread, but is that fantastic voice known as Julie still answering the Amtrak phones - and providing updated announcements?

I have long since sold my American Flyer collection from the late 40s and early 50s. My dad has started me on American Flyer because of what he thought was its authenticity to scale. I've always wondered, in the overall scheme of model railroading, how prominent American Flyer was compared to...

I can't comment on the anti-high speed rail article because I haven't read it. But frankly, I'm not convinced of the demand for high-speed rail in general. Instead of high speed rail, and as an ardent fan of overnight long-distance conventional rail I would like to see any additional dollars...

Thank you, Bob Dylan!

Since you've mentioned it I do have some questions about the Metro Plaza Hotel. In my case I really have no desire to see Los Angeles but I do like traveling on the Southwest Chief and I would indeed like to revisit Los Angeles Union Station for the first time since 2005. But my main interest...

Some of the above posters have tried to do a good job explaining what might have caused the derailment, but for someone like me who doesn't know anything about railroad tracks and some of the jargon that goes with them, can someone try to totally illustrate what's being talked about when such...

It's probably been covered pretty thoroughly by now but I would add that I'm one who enjoys reading a printed newspaper, and I always thought it was a nice touch and welcome amenity to have a morning newspaper slipped under my roommette door. And it seems to me they were local newspapers. Of...

but Elliott.org does have the email and contact information for the execs. So if you want to REALLY escalate you can use those. Zephyr 17 above mentioned Elliott.org, but I didn't find anything there for Amtrak, although I may not have been looking at the right place on the website. Can you...