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Just got kicked out of southbound Starlight. We will be bussed to Sacramento. Something about a derailed freighttrain. Hopefully nobody got hurt. My kids are sad...

In the Netherlands we have to stay clear 1.5 meters from the closest rail. However, if I should trip or pass out flat I'd rather not kiss a car, so if possible I keep about 2 meters from vehicles.

If fibreglass, as long as you have a undamaged nose somewhere, you have a mold for a mold... We had a mold and nose made for a truckkisser a few years ago.

My country is about 100 miles wide. Yours is wider, meaning you have extra sleeping time going West. Might still be too early for the wannabe-adult though...

Some US-apps don't run on non-US-registred phones. Could that have something to do with your problem?

0) Are two 'Roomettes' too expensive, too?

Thanks Alexandria Nick! You made me search some more. I looked in Wikipedia's 'Loading Gauge' page and found some drawings in references 30 and 35. Plate K makes sence for a passenger car. Plate H not so much, I guess.

Containers are about 2.5 meters wide. If you want plate H cars, you get narrow ones...

BC is offered to 'chose' seat 2. AC2 is offered to pick seat 3. Full house! ;-)

Yep. Two redcaps for the needy people, so we walked to the lounche. An extra redcap or two would be nice for the waiting people, but there's of course a pricetag attached on the guestimated early arrival. Coming from Chicago, the early arrival wasn't a problem. TE had some delays on the way...

Thanks, all! And yes Ed, I've been to Wales two times, to do some track work with the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society. A lot of men and women I would describe as British. Welshmen and English chaps working together, isn't history a happy ending story... We should try to talk a bit longer...

Ah... Tuna is a fish, a fish has fins. Fins live in Finland. Finland lies next to Russia. Russia used to be a communist country. Therefore you were communist, until you left your can of tuna behind and you were no longer a threat to world peace. This is the only logical reason I can think of...

Oh, and if anybody could enlighten me on how to get the blank lines visible I see while working in OpenOffice, but which automagically disappear on the site, I would be very happy. My mobile phone publishes the text quit alright, but the laptop I misuse by putting it on top of a table, probably...

Pictures say more than a thousand words, some say, so you might want to check http://tinyurl.com/mdbdtcz. But if you're bored anyway, you may want to read the small report below. Exquize my English: I'm not a native speaker and I've studied German language a few years, meaning I have to try to...

Hi Ed, Nice trip report! We met in the the train towards Belgrade, my son and I were in the same row. And we had the same hotels in Budapest and Belgrade. I'll try to make a trip report in a couple of days. Perhaps this link to some of our pictures in Dropbox works: http://tinyurl.com/mdbdtcz...

Howdie! It could be, the track mentioned on the first page, is a bit shorter now (left side, in the shadow under the bridge): The end: This was in front of the locomotives during fueling: And in front in the sand the above mentioned track: Cloudy regards from Rotterdam, Peter

Thanks for the compliment! Peter PS: is not as interesting as the audio. You now know, why I'm happy, this BNSF unit only drove in the morning, not during the night!Poor Curtis' announcement is boo-ed at from the locomotive! ;)

Hi JoanieB! The conducter kept us informed, like you said. I must have overheared the first announcements. I was having breakfast during the start of the small detour. After I finished, I wanted to return to my room at the end of the train, but I noticed, I was walking in same direction as the...

Hi! Normally, this train is turned (or do you say "whyed"?) in Denver, because the train enters Denver from the north(-eastern) en leaves Denver in the north(-western) direction. This turning of the train was now done around the scene of the accident. The derailled cars were tankcars, at least...

Hi there! Here's a short trip report from our trip last week. After booking our trip in December 2011, a few weeks before departure, I found on this forum some information about delays for the CZ train caused by trackwork. This would give us a few hours in Denver, to do a short city trip! As...