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From our friends at timetables.org, here's what the schedule for the previous overnight sleeper-equipped state-supported California train, the Spirit of California, looked like in 1982.

That was originally a lyric from the "All Aboard America" jingle (it's at the beginning of the commercial I posted above), but it was later "extracted" to serve as a separate slogan. Here's a 1993 New York Times article that mentions it: TWA and Amtrak emphasize creature comforts, not prices

Can you tell which lockers are occupied, or do you just have to keep opening doors until you find a vacant one? (I can't tell if those panels are frosted glass, or opaque.)

I think the "All Aboard Amtrak" slogan lasted from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.

I'll admit it: when I was in high school, circa 1991, I went to the Florida state Latin convention, which was under the auspices of the NJCL. I competed in the "Mottoes and Abbreviations" category. Didn't get to the national level, though. On topic for this thread: as far as I can recall, my...

I traveled to that area in 2019 (not on Amtrak) -- there ain't really any restaurants up on the mountains (since that's all national park or national forest land). Pretty much everything in Springdale is right on Highway 9, the main street through town that leads directly into Zion National...

You're never required to make a right turn on red (although you may occasionally hear a horn honking from behind you).

I'd be interested to see the full results of the survey that was referred to ("the reactions to candidate names by a sample of the traveling public"), but I assume if those still exist, they're buried in some archive somewhere.

Saw this on Twitter -- 50 years ago today (March 30), marketing firm Lippincott & Margulies presented its branding suggestions for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation. As you can see from this excerpt of the minutes from the meeting, there were three name suggestions given...

Old? It's only been open since December 2013!

I rode on a public demonstration, circa 1997, of potential commuter rail service on the line through South Tampa (basically, the yellow diagonal line along the Selmon Expressway on the map above) -- involving a Siemens RegioSprinter and temporary platforms. Obviously, nothing came of that.

Here's the section that describes "HAWK" signals (under their official name, Pedestrian Hybrid Beacons): Chapter 4F A flashing red traffic signal being the equivalent of a stop sign should be basic stuff. I assume people are just confused because instead of one red light flashing on and off...

I think there are pictures of a young me at both Loveland Pass and Berthoud Pass. Loveland Pass is named after the same person as the city of Loveland, but they're fairly far away from each other. My mother's parents grew up in the latter in the 1920s and 1930s -- I wish I knew more about their...

It's in the subject line of the thread (1978).

Interesting that right at the beginning of the video, they show a newspaper headline that spelled "Amtrak" incorrectly -- I know there were newspapers that managed to get the spelling right!

Smartphones can display your altitude (on the iPhone, it's in the included "Compass" app), although it's based on GPS, not barometric pressure.

For many reasons, Black passengers were less likely to be able to read and write than white passengers -- which meant they weren't able to fill out their meal check -- which, in effect, meant they weren't able to eat in the dining car.

Well, Mars is going to be even harder to turn into paradise than anywhere in Texas (or anywhere on Earth, really).

01:34 and zero seconds. (01:34 and 59 seconds would round to 01:35, one minute late.)

In 2002, I was on an Empire Builder that detoured only between La Crosse and Chicago via the former CB&Q (not all the way from St. Paul), due to a major freight derailment that was blocking the north end of Chicago Union Station.