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Actually, the hotel is about 4 miles due north of the main station.

It's one of the fellows wearing a suit on the sidelines at a basketball game. He's sometimes surrounded by the players and thus hard to see. :D

That will happen on those horseshoe turns.

The_traveler has probably already done something like that. How much would the total fare be?

Er, traveler, you are the big guy.

Notice to ONTC passengers

Here is some information on how catch sidings work: Catch Siding: Indian Railways

They might get to ride at a reduced fare. IAC, I'm sure the_traveler will be taking that trip in the not-too-distant future.

Polar Express?

From the article: Better that than seeing possibly dozens of people seriously injured or killed in a major accident.

Looking at Google maps and road views of Tillicum, it appears there is already a track running through the area, though it appears to be lightly used. Neither crossing has gates, although both have signals. I would assume that upgrades would see both crossings equipped with gates or replaced by...

The "public space" in a train or bus station or airport terminal is to facilitate the movement of passengers to and from conveyances of mass transportation. Passengers should be able to move safely to and from wherever they need to go without having to step over or around homeless persons. Just...

Wasn't there someone here who used to make the same, or at least a very similar, argument?

A Hudson was a steam locomotive with a 4-6-4 wheel arrangement, meaning four idler wheels (2 axles) at the front, 6 driving wheels (3 axles), and 4 trailing wheels (again, 2 axles). A Niagara was a 4-8-4 locomotive, similar to the Hudson but with 2 more driving wheels (1 more driving axle)...

Sharp curve sign on Boone. Another warning sign a few hundred feet further down says "Pavement Ends." Does it date from before the Eastland Ave. extension to Boone Rd., or was Eastland originally unpaved? In any case, the driver should have seen one of the signs and paid attention and slowed...

I can't wait till the_traveler finds his way to Indochina.

It's probably because of these situations that Greyhound feels the various and sundry added fees (which will typically be a small part of all but the cheapest ticket) are necessary.

Link "[F]ares and parking fees aren't going up at the same rate as gas prices": Don't give them any ideas!

"A freight train struck and killed a Chehalis man at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday": so the train hunted down the poor sap and whacked him? To be fair, the "Train vs. trespasser fatality in Centralia, WA" headline on this thread is more accurate.