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Cirdan, I think both you and Jis have accurately described a part of the "body elephant" that is the problem. I spend a lot of my time in my home state of Montana and at-grade crossings are everywhere and with the new long, long freight trains there is a huge temptation to "beat the train" to...

A direct cross continental train would be very cool. I would definitely pay to ride it at least once. Not sure how many others would, or where the equipment would come from. But a non-Chicago NY-LA route would be a nice option. Not sure what the route would be from Kansas City to LA. Would it...

At this point, I have to admit that masks don't matter to me. You want me to wear one? Fine. You don't care? Then I won't. It is a a small but real attempt to limit viral transmission. By itself it isn't all that effective but in conjunction with other techniques it is reasonably effective...

I love the idea of India Railways having 2,900,000+ freight wagons, 76,000+ passenger rail cars and 12,000+ locomotives. Now THAT is a rail fleet! LOL! Then I think about Amtrak trying to buy 130 cars from CAF...

I think the innocent DO have something to fear, Todd. The vast majority of the people that have been stopped from flying have been innocent people that simply share a name with a person of interest. I would imagine that this Amtrak/TSA data sharing will start out innocently enough, but it could...

Management sometimes makes decisions that seem ridiculous later, but seem to make sense in the short run. Back in 1980 Mayor Barry was laying off Washington DC employees to cut spending and without really analyzing it even superficially, he and his staff laid off more than 50 meter maids. The...

I used to own a 1977 Chevy Silverado 3/4 ton with an 8' bed, regular cab, not a crew cab. It was around 212" long overall, if my search is accurate. We could put 3 motocross bikes (each of them around 7' long) in the bed with the tailgate up. The new F-150 half ton regular cab pickup is 231"...

I like my cars. And people that attack them really don't understand how much most car owners would despise joining the sweating masses and sit cheek by jowl on a bus. There is a reason that SE Asia is buying more cars of late. The people that live there really DON'T want to ride on buses or...

Good questions, Swede. There is no one answer. I bought a plug in car back in 2013 when charging was even worse, so I got a Volt. I owned a condo in an old building with fee based garage parking. There were limited spaces and you had to pay $60 a month for a parking spot there. So I rented a...

I believe that is what the military calls a "Blue on Blue incident".

I drove from Miami to San Diego using I-10 back in 1989 in a 1981 Toyota Tercel, which had a rather poor antenna on a rather poor radio. I spent hours praying for a radio station because I didn't have a cassette deck. I got so bored I spent over an hour seeing how far I could drive without...

I traveled in the UK for 3 weeks in 1991. My GF and I stayed mostly at B&B's that cost less than £20 per night so we were at older homes for the most part. And most of these B&B's had a simple electric device over the top of the tub that heated the water coming out of a shower head slightly...

Wow. Anecdotal evidence is always questionable but when I was in New York last month the 1, 3, A and M lines were close to full every time I rode them during the day. But I didn't ride after 7 pm or so. Maybe Manhattan is the busier, faster recovering section of the MTA?

If Georgia can get this going, a big "if", but if they can do it, then extending the line would make sense. I was thinking to St. Louis and then on to Kansas City ( ≈ 805 miles) or to Louisville and then on to either Columbus ( ≈ 640 miles) via Cincinnati or Nashville to Indianapolis ( ≈ 540...

Saudi Arabia is a tough nut to figure out. They seem to be modernizing, slightly. They now allow women outside the house without a male guardian and I believe as Caravanman stated that women can drive as well. I believe that women got the right to drive a car in 2018 or so. I believe that they...

I am a Montana Hi Liner, born and raised in Glasgow and a fan of the Empire Builder from a young age! My Father worked for GN, then BN, then Amtrak when he was injured and then back to BN. My first railroad trip was with my Dad in the caboose of a freight train he was the brakeman on. That...

I agree that the Fox headline is stupid, but one small redeeming feature is that the article plants the blame firmly on the driver, repeatedly. But the headline is all that a lot of people read when they are skimming news sources.

I spent a couple days in the old replica ship The Golden Hinde sailing south through the Dogger Bank to London. We were motoring along at around 4 knots in a Force 7, borderline Force 8 gale out of the NE and the seas were rolling along at around 5 knots so the waves picked up the stern, lifted...

I visited New York for the first time in 30 years a couple months ago and walking the High Line was one of the more entertaining parts of the trip. The views down some of the streets were very cool and the Vessel gave the start of the walk a nicely bizarre (albeit with a tragic twist) photo op...

Are new Venture Cafe cars being built and on their way to service? On edit: Sorry if the answer is somewhere upstream on the thread! I have been looking all over and it looks like the lead problem might have contributed to a late arrival for the Cafe cars. Not sure though.