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Maybe Jungle Jim Husdon can clarify this one :help: but I thought Austin was the last/first smoke break on the Screaming Eagle? :help: :help: :help:

I've never seen rail replaced in less than 15-20 years unless there was a derailment or major damage to the rail. The Class 1's would go bankrupt if they replaced rail every five years; UP has 32,000 miles of RR times two rails equals 64,000 miles of rail. Some of the rail we ran over at maximum...

Also, depending on what zone you're in, don't plan on any regularity in your life as you'll probably ride the extra board for up to five or six years. :help:

As I'm not heading for the "Big Easy" (and NOBODY who lives here calls it that), I always order the steak on # 19. I cannot remember a trip not getting one.

Things were crazy enough when we made the detour for the last Gathering !It seemed like we sat forever for crew changes/pilot changes and the scenery was just flat farm land.Of course we sat where we couldn't even get our bearings or guess where we were. Yes, it is rare mileage but nothing to...

I ride the Viewliners about once a month and I think I've seen oly one of the older models (which took the place of the original model)functional in the last year and a half. Standard answer is "Head to the diner." Glad Amtrak realized they didn't work~ only question I have is if they were at 60...

And B is almost always forward on the Crescent~ must be the way the cars are turned at Sunnyside...

You're absolutely correct Alan, but with the way sleepers are selling out these days the chances are fairly good that the H might be open while the rest of the bedrooms(all two in the case of the Viewliners) are gone. A call to Riverside or Chicago should clarify exactly what bedroom you're...

The only rooms that have windows on both sides of a Superliner, downstairs or upstairs, are the Family Room (enormously expensive at times) and the Accessible Room (only available 15 days out if unreserved).There are four roomettes downstairs with one sided window access.The Viewliner has no...

I'm going to have to vote for the H room on Viewliners...it's probably the worse room on Superliners (the upper bunk was designed for Twiggy) but the best on V'liners; the room can easily hold three people on the couch and one in a folding chair (which you must now supply) and the bathroom has...

IIRC, the UNA students are called "Lumberjacks" and deservedly so. They show up in Flag and tear the place up on occassion...

Yeah Dave, my wife told me to get out of the phone booth the other day with that silly looking cape on !!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Sure....by the calendar I'll be 64 on August 1st but still feel like 18 with a 7' surf board under my arm. :cool:

We don't need to lose a poster... and I don't think they're transporting Federal prisioners by rail.....yet. But ya know what; with the new bag dorms coming on you never know !!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Just wondering where we stand in age as far as posters go. You don't have to participate but I think it would be interesting to see what age groups we all fall into. Thanks for your answers.

Just guessing but I think that was an equipment positioning train~ they moved a train back to Albany and thought they might pick up a few pax on the way.

Great story...don't mind the troll...there's one on every list. :cool:

I wonder if these nice folks building the Beaumont station would mind going to Mobile and building a new station so we can get Sunset East back or at least take away the excuse for not starting service again. I wonder just how long a grocery store would stay in business if the front door was...

I have a handful of 2011 Amtrak 40th anniversary calendars left from NTD. Anyone who may want one can post me at had8ley at juno.com They may have to be folded in half to fit into an envelope. Jay Hadley

And I thought I was the only one who caught **** With 100 degree plus temps it ain't going to get any better either. :help: