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This appears to be a Washington Post event, not an Amtrak event, so it makes sense that they would be primarily concerned about people within their circulation area.

Thanks for the link! I took the overnight train from Sydney to Melbourne in 2009, and do kind of wish I'd seen the route during the day. (It was winter, so the train left Sydney in the dark and arrived Melbourne at the first light of dawn.)

I suspect any issues with the website that are occurring today, Wednesday, June 3, are related to this situation: There's a major power outage affecting portions of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. I don't know how the power outage might directly affect the website (it would depend on where it's...

From what I've seen, the traversing isn't as much of a problem as the parking is.

L.A. Times article about the current state of freight railroading in Southern California: Link to full article: Freight industry takes hits during the pandemic, but the trains keep chugging along

Assuming the pandemic situation allows, I would bet on Amtrak doing something for their 50th anniversary.

Before I had a smartphone, I would use a Garmin car GPS on the train, and I didn't need to have it suction-cupped to the window -- being near the window was sufficient. (It worked fine sitting on the a tray table, or even just in my lap.)

Not that I need these summaries of each individual forum, but the teal text on a translucent black background is very hard to read.

Seems like it's a little shortsighted to put a specific dollar amount in the constitution. What about inflation, or unforeseen future needs? (I'm sure the official answer is that the legislature is free to allocate supplemental funding above the constitutionally mandated level, but how likely is...

It should also be noted that the light rail is free within the downtown/North Shore area (thanks to the longtime "pay when you enter inbound, pay when you leave outbound" fare collection method).

Ha, I've been to every brewery you mentioned. (Including a couple years ago, when some friends and I took the Surfliner to Carpinteria for my birthday.)

It's all worth it for Philippe's pickled pigs feet. (Not really.)

Nice! I once got to go to Long Beach for work... but I had to drive.

They don't, but they run with push-pull equipment. On the occasions I've traveled between Van Nuys and points south, I intentionally choose a backward-facing seat when I get on the train, knowing it'll magically be a forward-facing seat upon departing L.A.

Pete Seeger wrote it, actually (with help from the Book of Ecclesiastes).

I think "Zephyr" would have made for a better middle name. (I also like the "Justine" suggestion.)

Don't forget about blackout curtains -- with no gaps in the middle -- on the room windows!

There is a free guided tour once a month: link here. I believe it's the second Sunday of each month -- they still have last year's dates listed. Looks like they do free guided tours on weekday mornings, if you email in advance to request a time: link here. They have free guided and...

New Coke wasn't related to the switch to HFCS -- Coke had allowed bottlers to start producing regular Coca-Cola with a 50% HFCS blend beginning in 1980, and with 100% HFCS about six months before the New Coke introduction. (It's mentioned in this Snopes article, for example.)

They absolutely do. There just aren't pictures of it in this thread. Among other things, they have a 40-foot tree in the patio. News article about some of the 2019 holiday festivities