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Your comment made me curious. It just occurred to me that Homewood is a Metra station too. Did the Amtrak agent there sell Metra tickets as well?

This isn't relevant to Homewood but reminds me of something I had been wondering about after Glenview was unstaffed in May but forgot to ask. The Glenview station is still staffed by Metra personnel, so why not give their ticket agents access to the Amtrak reservations and ticketing system...

I noticed that the Vermont Rail Plan has the Boston to Montreal train running over the former Boston and Albany to Springfield and then up the Connecticut River Line. That seems to be a very indirect routing. Why not have the train run via the Fitchburg Line to Greenfield and then up the...

I have a couple questions about the transition to Amtrak's takeover of passenger trains on the night of April 30th-May 1st 1971. For trains that Amtrak was continuing that were en route at midnight on May 1st, did they become Amtrak's responsibility at midnight or were they handled by their...

My father and I will be travelling to Alaska to visit my uncle and am taking a side trip to Denali National Park for two nights and then on to Fairbanks on the Alaska Railroad. I have a few questions. I know there is no wi-fi, but are there power outlets? How does the dining car work? Do we...

Are agents trained on the procedure to change rooms without changing buckets when they are hired?

Thanks. Just was wondering in since the Camden line runs on CSX trackage.

Has the mudslide affected Camden Line Service?

What about Forest City Hiawatha? The Forest City is a nickname for Rockford, and the train will run on former Milwaukee Road tracks, which is where I got the idea for the Hiawatha name

Would it be possible to install a battery in the locomotives so they can travel short distances with live cantanery? This would prevent something like this from happening again, and would also be useful when the power fails on a short section of the Northeast Corridor. (The Hell Gate Bridge...

I noticed that for the next few weeks, on monday, the northbound Palmetto is detouring between SAV and SSN. Does anyone know what the detour route is?