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Sounds like the guy had an f-ing problem.

It's as close to HSR as anyone here is likely to see in that neck of the woods in their lifetimes.

Communism vs. socialism: a distinction without much of a difference: Wikipedia. (Make of it what you will.) But I suppose this is really a topic for another day.

What's interesting about Mineta is that, although he was no friend of Amtrak, and he served in the Bush 43 administration, he was also a Democrat. He also served a few months in the Clinton administration as Commerce Secretary.

Would such a train name even be politically correct nowadays?

Government ownership = socialism. Socialism = the first giant step on the road to communism. Yes, many people think this way, and it's hard to tell them they're wrong.

The rod connecting the two wheels is called an axle. BART's wheels are "flat," i.e., not conical, at least according to the BART article at Wikipedia (though there don't appear to be any sources verifying that assertion).

". . . the lower level of the lower level of the lounge car"? That sounds like one of the_traveler's rides!

Emery-Go-Round is free. All three Emery-Go-Round lines serve MacArthur BART.

I don't ever see the CC going over the Donner Pass to Reno. UP sends a lot of slow, heavy freights over the pass; I can't believe it would be too interested in having more passenger traffic on the line. Right now, it's a five-hour train trip. Although there are no nonstop or even direct flights...

One of United Airlines' paint schemes: I seem to remember reading somewhere that a lot of pilots for United and/or other airlines didn't like this scheme, since the abundance of gray made the planes hard to see in the fog and rain. Amtrak paint scheme: This Amtrak paint scheme (from...

Yes.

Because it may be much easier to arrange transportation, either by bus or rental car, from Tucson than from Maricopa, even if the latter is much closer to Phoenix. Why did UP tear up its tracks west of Phoenix? Did it find it was not cost-effective to maintain them? If so, we have to remember...

From the Inside Bay Area link:

If that's the case, they instead found out who couldn't get out of the way in time.

The "amtrak wedsite"? Is someone getting married or honeymooning on the train? Will the_traveler be invited?

The only thing that I think looks a bit odd is seeing a conventional level baggage car in a train otherwise comprising Superliners.

The Packers beat the Bears that day 21-13. :D :P

Actually, it is. Mind you, I'm not in favor of speaking ill of the dead, but I also make a distinction between someone who dies prematurely due to cancer or some other serious illness, an innocent victim who's shot to death, a passenger in a vehicle who's fatally injured in an accident, etc., on...