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Ft. Madison was a bit rainy, but Virtual Railfan was paying attention. And with about ninety minutes or so the train arrived in Chicago. I had dinner with a lot of people in the train. Some first time travelers, some veterans. Nobody really complained. The food was nice, good attendants...

We left on time, had diner and I took another picture of the train in Barstow before going to sleep. Some old and good looking cars were attached to our train, heading for Kansas City and Chicago. Not too far before Albuquerque. Albuquerque After Albuquerque Raton, 2x La Junta...

During the two of days of sampling the local trains and trolleys in San Diego I took only a few foto's: Two Sprinters ;) Heading to the Coaster back to San Diego. And another member who didn't gaive this rust buckett any attention. ;) Next day we visited among other destinations almost...

The Cros Country Café Car has WiFi, unlike the Sunset Limited... The San Antonio shuffle was done swiftly, although it felt as if we got a few bumps extra, just for fun. The trip was rather uneventfull, which was great. El Paso. I talked with Liz an Larry, a just retired veteran from...

The train left Temple right on time, but because of freight traffic, we're about an hour late in Austin, Texas: Edit: Most of the time I had my own booth in the diner, but this evening I was sat together with Liz and Larry. It is their first time on Amtrak.

Then again, in the Netherlands we had some trouble with sticky snow on 'cold' LED-signals. With railroading I have an infinite source of complaints. 😉

Hello from Ft. Worth:

Sunday morning I took the airport transit train to terminal 2 and changed to CTA. Today they were accepting passengers on the lower level: At Clark/Lake I changed to the Pink line to Quincy which followed this Midway train: I dumped my back pack in the lounge and took a walk to Lake Michigan...

At the airport/shopping mall I bought a dinner salat ar the supermarket. My hotel at Schiphol (Maxhotel) was near the airport, just a five minute €=$1,67 bus ride. Busses running every five to ten minutes. The room was small but efficient, booked in advance for €72. I upgraded my seat from...

Flying to Chicago. Texas Eagle to LAX. (Swimming to San Diego, I fear...) Going back via Fullerton to Chicago by Southwest Chief. Flying to Paris, Thalys to Bruxelles, ICB to Rotterdam, 20 minutes subway and a ten minute walk back home. Pretty straight forward this time. But my wife goes to...

This trip in Europe is by Thalys mostly; only on my way back I have an InterCity Brussel train. Sorry. 😉 I've just collected my ticket at Bruxelles Midi station an am on my way back to the Netherlands, to Schiphol airport. I took an earlier train and don't want to go hunting for a seat, so...

Well, I just started my trip to San Diego. My train left Rotterdam with 10 minutes delay. But now I'm heading at a decent speed towards Bruxelles.

Dang it, too -- plane is scheduled to land around 1415...

It seems, the only things you could play with are carier and location. So perhaps you will get lucky and find airports to travel from/to which don't cause a lot of cost and unwanted time spending pre/past flight. For example Google Flights can help you by searching from/to multiple airports and...

Modern diesels don't need notches; it's just that for compatibility with all the old units in multiple traction in de USA notches are still needed. In Europe I don't know modern diesels with notches, but they cannot run multiple with older types. Old electric engines had notches. In the 30 to...

Sorry, no trains on the Dutch side anymore. The line was converted into a kind of interurban line of the RET transit system of Rotterdam. At Schiedam you can transfer to trains or continu on as the interurban continues as subway into the Rotterdam city centre, but not to the main station. But...

Berlin main station:

With this little train we passed an old station: With an Amshed: And crossed the river Elbe: To arrive on time for this ODEG double stock EMU to Berlin:

Stendal was reached on time, where this Hanseatische Bahn self-propelled passenger rail car was already waiting for the trip to Rathenow.

Train arrived on time in Wolfsburg, where Abellio just arrived with my DMU type Lint for Stendal. There were a lot of standees.