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It’s so depressing for me to see how little progress we have made towards a rational approach to risk versus benefit assessment. Everything has costs and most things have benefits. Reading through this thread, it’s pretty apparent that humans magnify the benefits and minimize the risks of...

I think many employers should require their employees to be vaccinated and I wish everyone would get vaccinated. But I disagree with the implicit premise of this discussion; that Covid will go away if everyone gets vaccinated. Delta has changed that assumption from true to false. The virus...

During my latest trip, I remember announcements that, at an upcoming station, it is possible to put in cash and get a debit card. I take this as the only "accommodation" they offer. Obviously, it's better she do that before getting on the train.

Grits are only mentioned on the menu as part of the continental breakfast.

I just finished a trip where I ate the beef, the chicken and the enchiladas multiple times. I don’t like sausage and when I had this in January I did not like it. I didn’t order the pasta with meatballs. I also was offered a meatless lasagna on the Zephyr in mid June. The chicken, the...

It was my congressman, Howard Nielson, representing the third district of Utah, who led the charge, after one his constituents complained to him about her experience with the mist.

One of the problems with Salt Lake City to Moab is that there isn’t a wye at Crescent Junction, but just a turn towards Denver. A wye isn’t essential, of course, but it would mean running backwards or running the engine around the train.

The track between the portal where they load the tailings and the true end of the line at now Intrepid Potash is about 7-8 miles long and includes the only tunnel not on the Zephyr route. There is a deep cut just south of the turnoff to Canyonlands National Park and Dead Horse Point State Park...

Going only to Green River makes this no different from riding the Zephyr, at least for me, and far more expensive. And the most scenic part of the Potash Spur is the trackage south of the Moab portal. I really hope they figure out a way to include that. The information they have given so far...

I am very familiar with this line. Denver to Glenwood Springs is a well known part of the California Zephyr route that I have traveled dozens of times. I live south of Moab, so I drive past the Moab spur (we actually call it the Potash Spur) every time I travel north. The Potash Spur was...

From talking to doctors preparing for the virus to spread, I gather that the most important reason to keep liquor stores open is to avoid filling hospitals with alcohol addicts in withdrawal. We have to do what we have to do.

Now that you ask, yes. It was kind of fun, lots of people in one room, but you can see out of both sides of the train. I think my wife got the bottom bunk on that trip as well. I like European trains better if you have a family - lots of rooms with four or six bunks in them. I rode Rome to...

I travel mostly in the West and mostly with my dad. The first time, he insisted on taking the upper bunk. He was 76 years old. I insisted on the upper bunk the next year because I felt too guilty. After that, we always got a bedroom or two roomettes, except for one time we were getting off...

I think we'll know within a month or two what we're dealing with. They're trying to contain it, but my bet is they're eventually going to have to abandon that strategy and adopt a treat and eventually vaccinate strategy. In the meantime, the greatest risk for healthy people is getting caught...

Both high speed brands in Italy, Trenitalia and Italo, have carriages where half of the seats are facing forwards and half backwards. I think they do this because there are so many stations where they pull in and back out (Napoli Centrale, Roma Termini, Firenze SMN, Milano Centrale), with...

If your choice is two bedrooms, there's room to put someone on the floor connecting the rooms if you bring a plastic sheet, a foam mattress, and blankets or a sleeping bag. I've done it.

On the subject of the thread, which virtually no comments have touched on, I offer my opinion that US railroads are doing about all that can reasonably be expected to address CO2 emissions. They offer a very efficient means of transporting freight, which means their CO2 emissions are...

I’m trying to understand your point. Are you agreeing that Al Gore was wrong and that there were lots of other over the top predictions that turned out to be wrong, but that the scientific consensus was more moderate and measured and has borne out by actual events? Fair enough. What’s the...

These "mights" are the kinds of predictions that have been quoted elsewhere on this thread, and, once they fail to occur as predicted, the advocates quickly disassociate themselves from the "mights" and make another prediction of what "could" happen. The Arctic is not ice free, we still have...

There is a difference, sure, but it's more than just saying we are on an irreversible trend. They're saying we're doomed. At least this is the claim of AOC. It's hard, of course, to nail down what Greta Thunberg is predicting, precisely, because no one will ask her a tough question, but she's...