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What company is going to build this rolling stock that would replace Amtrak'so current aging equipment.

The last 5 or 6 years of the Penn Central and pre Central passenger trains of the Pennsylvania, New York Central and New Haven were really bad. I rode that Penn Texas west out of Pittsburgh one night in late March or early April. The coach car was so cold that ice formed on the inside of the...

I was 22 in 1971 when Amtrak started. My Dad worked for the Peoria and Eastern division of the Big Four Railroad which was part of the New York Central System. We lived in Joliet and Peoria, Il until 1961 and traveled by train frequrently. There was no question about the mode of travel - it...

The Sliver Palm was coach and business class coach when it was cut back to Savannah. It had not had a Sleeping car for several years. I rode it in both directions from Jacksonville in the early 2000s

As I said, the PITTSBURGHER did operate through 30th Street Station Philadelphia and did not skip Philadelphia.

The Pennsylvania Railroad's PITTSBURGHER from New York to Pittsburgh was one of the last all Sleeping Car trains that ran up until early to mid 1960s. It carried Sleeping Cars including a 6 BR lounge car that served snacks and cocktails out of New York and Pittsburgh at night and light...

Through the last 68+ years, I have arrived and departed many passenger train stations at all hours of the day or night. Sometimes with my wife or other family members and sometimes alone. I realize that trains of any lengthy route have to be somewhere during the late night or early morning...

The through B&O Slumbercoach from Baltimore to Fort Worth via the National Limited and Texas Eagle lasted until 1963-1964. It was the only Slumbercoach that operated on the MoPac and it a special stainless steel car that may have been built for the route. I rode the MoPac trains between...

The Pennsylvania's Penn Texas did, indeed, have through Sleeping Cars which were switched in St. Louis to the two major rail lines that ran from St. Louis to Texas. The Missouri Pacific operated the Texas Eagle in 2 sections(sometimes 3). The South Texas Eagle #1 departed St. Louis at 5:30PM...

On New Year's Eve, 1970, I traveled on PC Train 15 from Columbus to Cleveland to board the Chicago to Boston and New York City no name train which also picked up cars from Detroit in Buffalo. I had a roomette from Cleveland to Albany since the Boston train was coach only with a snack bar. The...

Great to see passenger trains returning to Roanoke. I changed trains in Roanoke from the Pocahantas to a Washington bound train and traveled westbound on the Pocahantas through Roanoke's beautiful N&W station. Later I traveled on Amtrak's Hilltoper from Roanoke to Washington via Richmond after...

I rode on trains pulled by GG1s on various trains between New York and Washington. I was always amazed at how quiet these monsters were compared to a diesel and certainly a steam locomotive. You could be standing on a platform like Wilmington or North Philadelphia and see the light from the...

The schedule problem is due to the marginal rail line that the Cardinal and Hoosier State use. Amtrak and in pre-Amtrak days, the James Whitcomb Riley traveled on the Illinois Central from Chicago to Kankakee and the New York Central's Big Four route from Kankakee via Layette to Indianapolis...

Yes, and Iowa Pacific, the current T&E operator of The Hoosier State is having financial problems and can't fund salaries! I would rather have a train with coaches, business class seating and limited food service compared to a high cost service that is completely discontinued. I can always eat...

Immediately before Amtrak, Santa Fe had a set out Sleeping Car on the Super Chief that was picked up and set out at Kansas City since westbound departure was late night and eastbound arrival was early morning. Santa Fe actually let passengers occupy the Sleeping Car until 8:00AM and board at...

I have traveled on all the Amtrak trains/routes over the last nearly 46 years that Amtrak existed plus many more routes prior to Amtrak. Some of those exist and some don't I traveled on the National LTD when it was a B&O train from St. Louis to Washington via Cincinnati. We arrived in St...

I wish Amtrak had offered a stay in Sleeping Car option years back. I remember arriving in Union Station on the Floridian at 2AM when it was supposed to arrive at 7PM Back in the early 1970s and having to leave the station at that hour and find a hotel room. Just finding an unlocked door at...

Many of the famous people who traveled through Chicago on the through Pullmans westbound would have lunch while their car was stopped in Chicago. The Dining Rooms in Blackstone Hotel on South Michigan Avenue as well as other hotels in that area was very popular because of their proximity to the...

I traveled to both Pennsylvania Station and Grand Central in New York as a child in the 1950s and 1960s. My Dad worked for the New York Central in the midwest so we traveled into Grand Central more frequrently. Both were very functional large city railroad stations with different track levels...