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Both morning MKE-CHI trains sold out today on top of all three of yesterday afternoon trains. Am I correct assume running with 6 coaches requires more staffing than 4, similar to how aircraft in the US need at least 1 flight attendant per 50 seats? Perhaps it's staffing and not coach car...

I seem to recall hearing someplace that several coaches from the Midwest were sent out west for use. Anybody have further information, including if this is either temporary or to be relieved as the new SIemens equipment arrives? The Hiawatha has been reduced from 6 coaches to 4 since COVID...

Are we likely to be talking the same 9+ hours to get from Seattle to Spokane via Pasco and Yakima that the route was scheduled for when last served a couple decades ago? Trains don't need to approach or exceed the speed of cars to draw substantial ridership, but 4.5 hours in a car versions 9.5...

The only other state-supported cuts I'm seeing so far: 1x Empire Service New York - Albany 1x New Haven - Springfield 1x Washington - Newport News

Yup -- 8 eastbound, of course. :-)

Who knows if all the cuts are loaded yet but so far the only state-supported stuff I find are the first and last Hiawatha cancelled and one CHI-CDL trip (morning Saluki south, evening Illini north). No impact -- at least so far -- on Lincoln Service, Cascades, Illinois Zephyr/Carl Sanburg, the...

7 was launched from Spokane eastbound yesterday so there is a MSP-CHI trip running today (Friday 1/14). At least that will get some equipment to Chicago and some passengers.

Thursday and Friday are cancelled too. Currently Saturday 1/15 is the first train planned to depart CHI or SEA. Looking at MSP-CHI the first train planning to run -- assuming no further cancels -- is Monday 1/17. That will hopefully end three weeks of horrible results. For the three weeks...

The Hiawatha to California Zephyr connection in Chicago is about as safe as they come. It arrives 12:29pm and the CZ leaves at 2pm. Since last May when the Hiawatha was restored, 221 of 222 trains arrived before 1pm, and the one late exception arrived at 1:02pm.

It's worth mentioning that more than half the traffic on nearly every long-distance route comes from people traveling less than 500 miles: 88.1% Palmetto 77.3% Cardinal 71.0% Texas Eagle 69.1% Silver Star 66.3% City of New Orleans 65.1% Coastal Starlight 65.1% Crescent 62.6%...

Credit where credit is due -- I have used your data tools countless times in these early days of this airline guy getting more into passenger rail. Great stuff!

Note that where Amtrak has or proposes to serve an airport it is primarily as a suburban stop. It's an alternative to making travelers venture into the core of the city to catch a train, a trip which may well involve heavy traffic at peak times and require people to go the "wrong way"...

This page on the same site specifically lets you look at the success a connection, in this case from 4 (Southwest Chief) to 370 (Pere Marquette) connecting in CHI. Looks like 85% successful this year, and if you exclude a couple of rough patches in mid June and mid July it routinely is north of...

No argument that the Amtrak site leaves much to be desired, however this is a six-segment trip with flexible dates. You'd likely need to do a significant amount of investigation to build the optimal trip no matter what mode(s) you choose. And optimization in this case doesn't just mean...

In the past several weeks I've noticed a fair number of trains on state-sponsored routes out of Chicago showing estimated loads of 70%-90% or occasionally selling out. Some of these are at peak weekday times but often they are on weekends such as Saturday morning trains to Chicago. I've seen...

Nashua is a Thruway station -- you can (for example) buy a ticket to NY Penn which is a thruway segment to Boston and train to NYP.

A Duluth leg could reasonably be added to the end of the proposed second MSP-CHI trip, something along the lines below. The MSP-CHI times are similar to what have been proposed. Southbound 0710 DLH dep 1050 MSP arr 1125 MSP dep 1735 MKE arr 1910 CHI arr Northbound 1030 CHI dep 1205 MKE dep...

The capital improvements are on page 6 of this link, primarily stuff in the Winona and La Crosse areas to reduce congestion. https://wisconsindot.gov/Documents/projects/multimodal/rail/TCMC-booklet20210526.pdf There are also capital improvement projects funded to add a second platform at...

Definitely a visual gap in the network that sticks out, and it might be workable. But a key question is if there would be enough demand to justify adding that connecting leg to the Front Range corridor. Based on the Southwest Chief schedule, the potential Front Range trains to/from La Junta...