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I was thinking of a menu I saw at a restaurant that called itself a diner but only sold a la carte (so not a Diner). Appetizers were $8-10, roast chicken was $19.99, a ny strip steak was $29.99, and a slice of entirely mediocre pie was $8, while a bowl (scoop) of ice cream was $7.50. $35.40-...

Dave is a contributing editor but not on the masthead; he would have made that known to me if it happened. I’ve known him for many years and I actually consider him a friend. He’s a very intelligent man, but he also has a number of opinions that I quite distinctly disagree with. I also have...

We have 750 employees with a combined 200 years of experience at misleading claims of experience totals. Which is why that statement is so transparent. I know some of the people who write for railway age personally. I think it is a microcosm of the American rail scene- a bunch of people with...

A friend of mine told me a friend of his had likened flex meals to MREs. I took the Cresecent TRE->NOL, the CONO NOL->CHI, and the Cardinal CHI->TRE. The Crescent and Cardinal was the same food and it was passable; I’m not writing a gushing review of it but having eaten quite a few genuine MREs...

The only thing vaguely valuable in the whole thing is my Fiio music player; my tablet is something like 6-7 years old.

I’m out of Chicago on the Cardinal tomorrow. I was planning on checking out of my hotel, and either checking my bags at the Metro lounge and going to Lou Mitchell’s or if needed vice versa, and then the art institute. I know there are Threads on this from years ago but couldn’t find a recent...

Oy. I have a 2/18 trip out of Chicago on the Cap. I have rebooked on the Cardinal. I guess I can take the Bus or an Uber home from Trenton.

Precooked food is generally not as good as fresh cooked food, and the best of precooked food is not a stitch on the best scratch cooked (and I really mean scratch cooked- bisquick is not scratch cooking) food. However, to answer your question on the French toast- like scratch cooked food...

Personallly I think service to Reading is imperative. It’s a beautiful and vibrant city and I feel not only should it have service to Philadelphia but be a central rail hub for eastern Pennsylvania with hourly service to Allentown, Scranton, Pottsville, and Harrisburg. This area of Pennsylvania...

Actually you’d need 4 full sets of passenger cars (call it 16), and four full sets of auto racks (30 each?) so 64 passenger cars plus 2 spares of each type you 75 pax cars, and 125 auto racks, versus the number they use now, plus construction of two extra sets of platforms and rack loading docks...

I’ve been using my AGR card exclusively or almost so basically since my credit finally got good enough to qualify for it. I have an Amex Green card I use for one recurring expense, I use my ConocoPhilips card for gas (25 cents/gal off cash price, and Conoco/Philips 66 stations are already...

Having only bought one new car and ordered it to spec, and then waited 5 months for delivery, I would never do it any other way. It particularly makes sense if you want to cherry pick your options. Example: I wasn’t sure to what extent this van would be used for cargo so I didn’t want interior...

Deposits on ordered vehicles is a normal thing, actually. When I ordered my Mercedes Metris back when they first opened the order books in May 2015, I had to put down a $500 deposit that the salesman warned me would be non-refundable due to the vans odd specification (generally well equipped but...

I’ve never dined at Royal, but Wawa and Sheetz, while certainly borderline edible, are blown out of the water by local convienence stores. Many of which, in my area, are located in former non-gas-station Wawas, offer decent quality deli meats (Boars Head, Thumans, Dietz & Watson), excellent wide...

I bought my first one, a 1976 240D, when I was just barely 17 on the basis of two features: $250 and runs&drives. I hated a lot of it but decided to drive it until it failed so as to save up money to buy something I wanted (Cadillac Brougham, believe it or not). It never did until an accident...

93000? I had a car that had a 5 digit odometer, but based on car fax it had been around that thing at least seven times, and I think it had actually hit ten. Anyway it was 25 years old (1976 in 2001) and it was in terrible shape (60mph was all she’d give with a tailwind, and it had the Fred...

I was talking to my local Mercedes van dealer; I have been thinking of switching from my ‘16 Metris passenger to a new four cylinder diesel Sprinter cargo 144’ high roof, so as to remove the rear passenger seat I never use and replace it with more of the kind of office set up I do use plus...

They’ll do anything to stop you from cancelling. I just got some card replaced with a new card for a reason I don’t recall, and they wanted my wife to activate it using an app. We are both selective luddites and avoid being forced to use apps because we are neurotic… anyway, my wife tried the...

I wonder if I ever posted here before. It means somebody drew me an avatar making me a lion with electric brown fur (same color as a 1979 Mercedes-Benz 300SD I had at the time) and a green mane. It was an unrequested gift, but I’ve used the appellation all over the place. The artist who created...

I probably wrote a trip report, but way back in like 2009 or something, I booked the Omaha to somewhere in Wisconsin loophole that took you from Omaha to Sacramento, to Portland, and to wisconsin, combined with sleeper tickets to and from Chicago and coach tickets to the loophole points. Whelp...