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The other factor here is the route, meaning Boston to Montreal. A Boston to Toronto overnight service would be far more popular. The excellent regional airline, Porter, operates multiple round trips between Logan and Billy Bishop (Toronto City Airport), daily. Their volume is back to 2019...

Actually yes, a number of Department Stores over the past year reduced their floor count, and thus have fewer escalators to maintain, and less strain on elevators. Stores from Bloomingdale's, to Boscov's, to Macy's, to Nordstrom, to Saks 5th Avenue, all have closed off entire floors in lower...

With some comments being made about a return to Traditional Dining on the Silver Service trains, just remember what Stephen Gardner said a few months back. He discussed an improvement in Dining Service, using a variation of the service being offered on the western trains. As far as what...

No to a subway entrance at Macy's, there has not been a direct entrance from the Subway since the building was renovated and repurposed. The Lower Levels were rebuilt as part of the parking garage. Today there are perhaps around (6) Department Stores that still have direct subway entrances in...

I use an "old" Macbook Air and have not issues. Ok, I use Google Chrome, not Safari, so that's probably why. Exactly, the older Mac Book, and Mac mini that I use can not be upgraded to Chrome, and thus use Safari, which again no other company has issues with. Ken

Received the new card in the mail from FNBO, activated it, no issue so far. Then I went to set up my "on-line" account and kept getting error messages. Turns out our new bank for the Amtrak card does for have the ability to support those of us who use Safari on our Macs. I use 2 older MACS...

Excuse me, but Tourists make up a good part of LD train patronage. To use the term Tourist Train is ignorant and sad. We have enough trouble with Amtraks consistent level of inconsistency than to have rabid rail fans and foamers defend Amtrak no matter what they do. Ken

Plus, you still have about 11 Grade Crossings in Connecticut, which also limit speeds. It would be curious to know that on the State Owned portions of the NEC such as the segments in CT, and in Massachusetts (the Commonwealth owns the NEC), how are Amtrak services prioritized. Ken

Another factor with NEC Speeds are the sections of the road with high frequency services by the regional commuter providers. On our last Acela trip from Boston to New York, we had some sections of high speed (over 110 mph) running south of Route 128, and then after Providence. Once in...

Yes, there is a suburban line serving Mexico City. The plan was/is to have multiple lines, but for the moment only 1 line is in service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tren_Suburbano

VIA lists Coach and Sleeper Plus services. https://www.viarail.ca/en/explore-our-destinations/trains/regional-trains/winnipeg-churchill/classes

Seems like there is another round of Chef and LSA job postings in Miami. Read that job description, it talks about preparing meals for Amtrak employees (it mentions that a few times in the posting). Further it notes the job is Florida based with no Travel Requirement. It does not sound like a...

I have taken many an early morning train from South Station, and there have always been Red Caps waiting to assist passengers with their luggage. Usually using a Red Cap will get you on the train prior to general boarding. Ken

Trains is reporting that Moffat Tunnel work will result in short turning the California Zepher on 7/29.

In 2016 there was another derailment on the Southwest Chief, in this case it was blamed on track damage caused by a farm truck. In these very rural areas you are never going to have full control at grade crossings as in many of these spots you can just drive around them...

Here is the CNN update. https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/missouri-train-derailment-06-27-22/index.html We pray and send thoughts to those who were killed, and injured, as well as their loved ones. Ken

Let's keep this thread going as verified updates on Staffed Stations occur. I was pleasantly surprised to see that Back Bay Station in Boston is once again staffed. On Friday, May 27th, they had (3) people on, 1 each at the 2 windows, and a 3rd "on the floor" offering directions and assistance...

Just listening to a news piece on this service, and I found it interesting that the claim is the service is inspired by the success of the summer only, Cape Flyer service that runs between Boston and Hyannis. That said part of the reason why the Cape Flyer had done well is that it is run by...

How much of this routing is even possible today, in particular the Ohio, and Indiana segments ? Ken

If you take Acela, consider First Class, as you get meal service delivered to your seat, and more space between the seats. The menu below is part of the Acela meal service rotation. In Acela Business Class you can purchase food from the cafe (bistro) car, but not the menu items serviced in first...