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You're thinking of the Point Defiance Bypass in the Tacoma, Washington, area. That derailment was in 2017, and trains switched back to the old route, but then they started using the new route for good in 2021. (Correct, the derailment was a Cascades train, but the Coast Starlight uses that...

Incidentally, I was in downtown L.A. the day after Thanksgiving for the auto show, and thought about the City Hall observation deck... but it turned out to be closed (in fact, all of City Hall was closed) because it was an official city holiday.

Jewel-Osco is owned by Albertsons/Safeway. In the Chicago area, Kroger owns the Mariano's chain.

Found this photo of an L.A. Metro turnstile: The area where it's glowing red is a scanner that's supposed to be able to read the QR code in the Metrolink app.

The regular versions of Molson and Labatt's both have the same alcohol content as the regular version of Budweiser (5.0%). But at any rate, in this era of "craft beer," you can find plenty of American and Canadian beers with a wide variety of strengths.

In case this is helpful to anyone discovering this thread later: between Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day, another option to get to the Museum of Science and Industry is the #10 bus, which is an express that runs about every half hour from Michigan Avenue directly to the front of the museum.

I discovered last month when I was in Boston for a brief visit that the T accepts contactless payments, so you can just tap with a credit card (or phone or watch) to get through the fare gates... However, other systems I've encountered with this setup will automatically cap fares at a certain...

From a 1974 Amtrak system timetable, via timetables.org -- I assume most of these were a version of what railliner describes in the previous post.

No, there never was -- rail service between Tampa and St. Petersburg has always gone "up and over" (through Oldsmar and Clearwater).

The cost probably only makes sense for frequent flyers, but domestic airport lounge memberships are basically open to anyone who has a few hundred dollars a year to spend (either directly to an airline, or as the annual fee for a credit card that includes lounge access).

Chad's Cafe on Cabrillo Boulevard a couple blocks from the station is a very good breakfast/brunch spot with an ocean view (it's popular enough that there's almost always a line waiting). Once upon a time, it was the original location of the *****'s chain. Otherwise, there are plenty of...

Over the bridge's lifetime, I'm sure there have been countless cases of one end of the bridge momentarily having a lot more weight on it than the other end (particularly since trucks are allowed on the bridge), so I don't see why trains would inherently be a problem.

I used timetables.org to check the timetable that was in effect 40 years ago (October 30, 1983 issue), and here are Amtrak's city ticket offices from back then: Boston Statler Office Building, 13-15 Columbus Ave. (another Boston location at 10-12 Park Plaza was listed as "coming soon") Chicago...

"C" is for "cycle" (but I don't know how long each menu cycle lasts on the Acela).

The Flyaway bus from LAX to Union Station can actually be reasonably fast, because for much of the route, it can use carpool/HOV lanes on the freeways. (There's also a Flyaway bus from LAX to Van Nuys... but it only serves a dedicated bus terminal that's about 2½ miles from the Amtrak station.)...

Not sure where the "22 months" came from - FNBO's Amtrak cards have only existed for about 13 months. Presumably, they've been reviewing accounts that have been around since the beginning but had no card activity - I'm actually in that category, and I got a etter from them last week warning...

Although the San Bernardino line parallels I-10, the closed part of the freeway is south/west of Union Station -- the extra service isn't for literally bypassing the closure, it's just providing more opportunity for people to use public transit.

When I went to a game in Cincinnati a few years ago, I parked at the Newport on the Levee shopping center in Kentucky and walked along the Taylor Southgate Bridge (U.S. 27) to get across the river. (There's also a pedestrian/bicycle-only bridge, known as the "Purple People Bridge," just a bit...

It seemed even more crowded than back when they did similar events for National Train Day. A couple friends and I went on Saturday -- we arrived about half an hour after the official start time, and the line to view the historic equipment was already 2 hours long (if you believed the "wait time...

He was in charge of marketing for AMC, you say? Sounds like they're going to bring back TV screens on board solely so they can show a one-minute commercial for Amtrak after every stop. "Somehow, being delayed 4 hours by a disabled freight feels good in a place like this." (Actually, in all...