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Happy Labor Day Weekend all. Speaking of taking trains to the beach, we are at the MBTA Commuter Rail Station in Chelsea about to board the train to Rockport, and Front Street Beach.

Yes, Crane Beach can be reached via the Newburyport Line at Ipswich Station. The seasonal bus service Ispwich Essex Explorer meets trains at Ipswich and one route goes to Crane Beach. http://www.ipswichessexexplorer.com/ Ken

Does anyone know if business class on the Downeaster has assigned seating or is it still a free for all? A Free For All, hardly. You need a Business Class Ticket, and then you pick your own seat. When we travelled on 8/12, single passengers were asked to use the single seats, and they all...

Another great thing about the Downeaster Service is that the service is great. As part of their being the Contracted Operator of the service, Amtrak has to agree to service standards established by the Northern New England Rail Passenger Authority. They Cafe Car Attendant we had on our trip back...

From time to time discussions come about beaches that can be easily reached by Amtrak. For a life long resident of the Northeast, and now Boston, the only beaches that matter to me are Ocean Beaches, but we can include fresh water beach as well. One of the best Beaches that is served by Amtrak...

Here are some recent pictures along the South Coast Line at Berkley (the junction of the 2 end points). As regular visitors to Westport, we are looking forward to the closer Commuter Rail Options (as opposed to Middleborough).

When you visit the Amtrak website, it has the Adirondack listed as it's featured service of the Northeast. https://www.amtrak.com/regions/northeast.html No mention of the routes suspension. Get it together already. Ken

Thanks for posting this. It sounds like this has been planned out very well, including having the Budd Car out on a publicity tour. The Rockland Lobster Festival is a hyper popular event, so running shuttles to it will get the word out fast. Happy 4th of July. Ken

The Silver Meteor's Traditional Dining Menu is now posted on Amtrak.com https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/menus/routes/Silver-Star-Dining-Car-Menu-0323.pdf Yes, it's the same as the Star, and at the top of the Dinner Menu it states a Dinner Salad is...

Exactly, if you were, as an example, driving from Washington DC to New York City, you would not be on this section of 95, you would be on the NJ Turnpike connecting with 95, just before/after the Delaware Memorial Bridges. A major portion of Route 95 that would have travelled through Mercer and...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Star_(Amtrak_train)

OMG, the Drama. First South Station, like many places in the Boston HUB is under construction (see below). There can be noise related to this (weekdays in particular), and detours set up, but it is far from chaotic. As an earlier poster notes, if you are using ACELA First Class you can use...

Back to Amtrak's Dining Service, here is an excellent video of a recent rip on the Empire Builder traveling the full route heading towards Chicago. The video shows the entire experience, including all the meals that they enjoyed in the Dining Car, and as the train was running very late into...

The 1969 Book, The Commuter Railroads, by Patrick Dorin, was written just as the original GO routes opened, and has a nice write up on it, including the creation and planning of it. At that point, it was a single route along the Lakeshore, with Toronto Union in the middle, and the bulk of the...

They should be able to, except for the fact that over the past few weeks all it shows are details on Cafe Menu items, with the exception of the Auto Train. Ken

Minimal, most commuters from South Jersey heading to Philly drive the to PATCO Lindenwold Station and take the High Speed Line from there. Other use the various NJT Commuter Busses from their local towns, and even pre COVID a good number drove. Driving into Center City at Rush Hour using the Ben...

If your commenting on any service in Maine, including Downeaster service, you should know who the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority (NNEPRA) is. They are the ones who fund the Downeaster service, set the schedules, policies (such as the Cafe service), fares, and more. This includes...

Here is one of the stories about the Auto Train or as the NY Post titled the story, Am-Trapped. https://nypost.com/2023/01/11/37-hour-amtrak-train-delay-prompts-passengers-to-call-911/

The trick with Boston is to look at the chain Hotels that are near T stops. On the Red Line there are a number at Braintree, on the Orange Line at Assembly Row, and a new Marriott SpringHill Suites, across the street from the Wonderland Station on the Blue Line. On the Commuter Rail there are...

OMG, what an ancient picture of Toronto, please !!! If you have not been there in the past 5 years or so, you don't know that city at all. It is far more dynamic, and far less white than that picture. Further the xenophobic government of Quebec has chased away the new arrivals from mid-east...