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This may be a very naive question, but can striking a deer really disable the typical Amtrak locomotive?

I'm curious if anyone knows the answer to the first question because it seems like somewhere I also read somewhere about an Amtrak station that was converted to unstaffed from staffed, but that supposedly continued to offer checked baggage service, and I wondered at the time if that was a...

Who and what were the Zephryettes? In 1936 the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad was looking for an executive-level supervisor of passenger services to help expand their passenger train market to families and women. They hired former tea room manager Velma McPeek, and she immediately...

Of course, like the above references, I prefer non-fiction passenger rail history, but if someone is still hungry for train oriented reading I might mention two books of fiction - murder mysteries - that might be interesting to readers; I did enjoy them solely because they had to do with...

Regarding the first comment in this thread about the agents in Birmingham, I, myself, have always wondered why is it among some Amtrak station agents, and some dining car personnel, that they just don't seem to have the right attitude and people skills for customer service work. They seem very...

Does anyone have any direct email addresses, telephone numbers, or US Mail addresses for some of the decision-making executives at Amtrak? And in that regard, is there a reporting relationship chart available that shows the chain of command at Amtrak and their respective names? For instance I...

I'm pretty sure these various discounts never did apply to the sleeper car charges which by far always made up the bulk of my Amtrak charges. As a sort of old guy I always got the seniors discount but, frankly, I wondered why I should have gotten any kind of a discount on the basic rail fare...

Why is it so difficult to fire these unionized workers, even ones with criminal backgrounds as in the case of this Pinner guy? According to the story in the Great Falls Tribune he had a rap sheet that included felony robbery and drug trafficking, and he was quoted as having told an Amtrak...

I understand a few years ago there was a serious attempt by the city of West Wendover, NV to build a platform and station on the California Zephyr tracks that go right through the town and to persuade Amtrak to add West Wendover as a stop for the train. Does anyone know where that stands today...