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Some years back, one of the railroad magazines ran someone's story that involved him scheduling some 1960s train riding with an overnight stopover in Hinkle, assuming -- since it was in bold print in the timetables -- that it was a big enough town that he'd be able to find a cheap hotel room...

Shortly after reading this thread, I read my copy of the new (December 2020) issue of Trains magazine, and something looked familiar...

When I was a kid, in the early-to-mid-1980s, I flew there from Tampa every year for summer camp, on Piedmont Airlines 737s (with a plane change in Charlotte). I assume these days, they get mostly regional jets.

The 'L' station is only half a block from Wrigley Field, so it would have been a very short ride if you'd asked for that destination! Of course, you probably would have been just as cold and wet on the 'L' platform as you were on the street.

I used to have relatives along the Morris & Essex Lines, so I passed through Hoboken Terminal a number of times in my younger days (before the Kearny Connection was built). It used to have a Solari board in the waiting room, as well as auxiliary arrival/departure displays located throughout the...

I assume there isn't actually anything for railfans to see at the CSX headquarters building, aside from the lobby security desk while they're being politely (or not-so-politely) turned away.

Arlington, Texas, has a population just under 400,000 -- but if I recall correctly, the Texas Eagle generally doesn't pass through anymore (because it usually runs on the TRE tracks, which are further north).

Agreed, that van appears to show the new version of the "Geek Squad" logo, like this one (not my photo, found online:

Just as long as people in Dayton realize the flight is to Miami, Florida, and not Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. And just as long as people in Miami realize the flight is to Dayton and not Daytona.

More like "had" -- they've been gone since 2003.

I took a look on Google Street View, and I can confirm this. There are elevators from the platforms up to "station level," and the walkway runs on that level. There is also at least one elevator within the station parking structure to go between "station level" and "ground level" (which appears...

For quite a while, Delta had an L-1011 flight that went Tampa-Atlanta-London Gatwick (and return) -- I wound up on the domestic leg at least a couple times, connecting to or from other Delta flights. While boarding in Tampa, you could see the cargo handlers loading box after box of tropical fish.

I flew 747s a couple times in my life, most recently on United to Australia (and back) in 2009. They hadn’t been upgraded with the latest audio/lvisual hardware (movies were still on screens at the front of the cabin), and there was a couple inches less legroom in Economy Plus than on other...

Is it Mears? They seem to be the major shuttle service provider in the Orlando area.

I happen to have a timetable in my collection from just after the parent company of the former Trans-Texas (rebranded as Texas International) took over Continental, and the operations hadn't yet been combined under the Continental name. (I realize this still doesn't have anything to do with face...

To be a bit more accurate, the airspace over a small portion of the city of Portland was declared a no-fly zone up to 1,000 feet above ground level. The attempt is presumably to keep news helicopters and photography drones away from the area. You can draw your own conclusions about why the...

They don't have that anymore (which is a disappointment, since it's memorably parodied in the movie "Airplane!" -- the filmmakers even got the same voiceover artists to do it).

Unfortunately, I live in an apartment building, and although I have my own parking spot (and an individual electric meter), there's no plug-in for an electric car. I know I'm far from alone in facing this. I'd like to see landlords given incentives to install plugs.

He had a long-running show on Food Network called "Good Eats," and has parlayed that into a few other TV and web series, as well as best-selling cookbooks. He's definitely one of the most famous "celebrity chefs" out there due to his TV fame -- but if you don't pay any attention to people who...

A list of Chicago connections was an off-and-on feature in the Amtrak system timetable (this example is from 2010):