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Agreed on all points. The 380 in particular is more "it's impressive that that thing can fly" than good looking. Other attractive planes: DC-8, Concorde, A321, Bombardier CSeries (now A220). Other less-than-attractive planes: MD-11, B757 (yeah, I know I'm hugely in the minority on this one)...

Man, the 777 is such a nice-looking plane.

I think he's right, actually; Train Jams' tickets are for one bed in the sleeper rooms, not the entire thing. In any case, it sounds like the organization just bought out the whole train; having it be sold out could be an annoyance to others but LD trains sometimes sell out organically anyway...

The distances aren't THAT much different; LA-LV is 50 miles longer than SF-Reno, but over much less complex terrain for rail.  I don't think either of those subsidy proposals really work. They don't need to double track anything in Nevada, so property tax deferments wouldn't work too well. Not...

I don't know much of the background on the notion of extending Capital Corridor trains to Reno, but some thoughts on that: I'm not sure how interested the legislature would be in funding such a thing. They want trains to Vegas; adding more to Reno while Vegas has none would be a tough sell...

The "Chrysler lost a prototype car made by Ghia" bit is accurate. It was the Norseman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Norseman  The rest is....uh, probably not true.

What did "-R" and "-U" mean?

I-80 over Donner has been sporadically closed for the last few days (it's currently open only to cars) and there's been constant rain and occasional snow in Reno. 

The E and F are rail lines run with antique streetcars, not buses, and they tend to be quite crowded. The stop at the cruise terminal is in the median of the Embarcadero. Carrying luggage on is certainly doable but not particularly pleasant-the streetcars are high-floored and have stairs. It is...

Indeed, hence my fairly low-effort attempt to clarify it. One of the most "amusing" pages on wikipedia is "List of lamest edit wars."

Aaaaand someone removed the edit. Oh well. 

The "discontinued" notation refers to the Houston branch-the lighter shaded line. The Heartland Flyer notation is referring to the same-colored line leaving the route to the left.  Edit: Ideally the "discontinued" line should be above the "Heartland Flyer" line since that's what the diagram...

I wonder if it was on purpose that both of the powered locos were number 42.

Delta seems the most "put together" of the major airlines-they apparently have the lowest delay rate (in spite of having the oldest fleet-go figure), their app is better than anyone else's, and their overbook strategy is nice-they have you "bid" on being bumped at checkin if they think there's a...

Greyhound stopped running buses Reno-SLC a bit ago. My understanding is also that Greyhound plans in the medium term to abandon their station in Reno and move into currently unused space in the downtown transit center, which is right across the street from Amtrak.

I just stayed at the New Yorker, a block north of Penn on 8th Ave, and found it quite nice-I would say it occupies a nice middle ground between "comfortable but aggressively mundane business hotel" and "historic building full of, uh, 'character.'" It's a Wyndham property, apparently newly so. It...

https://www.fairfield.ca.gov/gov/depts/pw/fairfield_vacaville_train_station_and_peabody_road_improvements.asp City of Fairfield website says that it'll start being used in October.

I'd absolutely wear pajamas in the diner at breakfast. Other meals, probably not, but if someone else was, at most I might give them a vague glance, go "huh," and move on. Reading some of the responses of this thread, I've probably irritated some people with my air and train travel ensembles...

Boston South Station and Back Bay, I would think. Offshoot: Shortest distance one can actually buy tickets between. Possibly Berkeley and Emeryville?

Last year I had occasion to fly into Sydney, Montana-an airport served exclusively by 9-seat Cessna 402c's-and wondered if anyone had ever booked a flight to there instead of to Sydney, Australia. On top of the same name, the airport codes for these places are SYD and SDY. Hopefully, being told...