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Which pipeline do you mean? There are a whole bunch of projects in the works. Two apparently fell apart, but two new were proposed. It's all a matter of getting guaranteed shipments set up to get financing to build the pipes. Well, that and getting approval for your route. My bet for first...

By 2016, not only will BNSF's improvements be coming to fruition, but new pipelines will start coming on line, removing oil traffic from the Hi Line.

A remarkably good cafe. If you think museum food is all warmed over burgers and chicken nuggets, think again.

Well, of course, because Amtrak hasn't stopped in Minneapolis for more than 25 years. Thank goodness, Minneapolis has nothing to do with the Green Line. They're too busy wasting hundreds of millions on a football stadium for a lousy team. The slightly more competent Metropolitan Council runs...

Yep, they pushed the 1:40 pm PDX departure out to mid-January.

That's exactly what train #8 The Wolverine did in the 1953 NYC timetable. At that time it didn't stop in Annandale, but it did meet up with the New England Wolverine in Albany.

If you want to ride the Southwest Chief and the California Zephyr, and maximize your time on the train, you could book 2 two-zone published awards: NOL-CHI-LAX-SEA, and SEA-SAC-CHI-NOL. You'd have overnights in New Orleans and Seattle, and an early morning in Sacramento, but the advantage to...

One when I was on the eastbound Empire Builder a freight train derailed in Marias Pass. We were bused from Whitefish to Shelby, where we waited the westbound Empire Builder. When it arrived, its passengers transfered to the buses that had taken us over the pass, while the locomotives were...

You're absolutely right. My mistake.

I've never complained about a delay that was the host railroad's fault, like a bustitution because of a derailed freight train, or a three-hour delay 4 miles from my destination because the line was blocked by a freight train waiting for a crew. I won't even complain about missing a connection...

Or heard for 50 miles.

A perfectly legitimate published two-zone routing is New Orleans-Chicago-Los Angeles-Seattle. Strangely, the first itinerary offered between New Orleans and Seattle is New Orleans-Washington-Chicago-Sacramento-Seattle, which is not legal according to the rules as written.

Well that was fast That was then. Now the first day the connection is allowed is November 15. Edited to correct train numbers.

Unless you're a real connoisseur of North Dakota landscapes, like me, there isn't much difference in the scenery. While you quickly move out of the billiard table flatness of the Red River valley into more rolling country, about the only striking difference is that you go over a high trestle...

You rode the Butte Special? Wasn't that the one that had an old 12-section sleeper, two sections of which had been converted into a little kitchen where the porter fried up steaks on a hot plate? How was it? For reasons I can't explain, I wish that I had been around back in the day, and could...

I had problems booking the connection soon after AGR Insider said it was allowed. The supervisor claimed that my routing had never been allowed, which was incorrect. For what it's worth, the 27-11 connection is allowed without an overnight starting October 1. If I were traveling in a...

The average number of fatalities in NC in 1995-2000 was 18. Last year it was 19. I'd say NC is like the rest of the US where tresspasser fatalities haven't budged in years.

Booking opera tickets for the same day that our long-distance train was arriving. At least the Palmer House hadn't given our room away when the Empire Builder arrived at 2 am, rather than 4 pm the afternoon before. We were able to call and turn back our tickets for the tax write-off, but I've...

I've never had much luck doing things this way. I don't know what the front desk clerk was supposed to do, but it often hasn't happened. La Quinta is especially bad in this regard: I think that I'm one-for-three or four in getting AGR points for stays. YMMV, of course, but I found relying on...

I miss the greater variety of specials in the dining car. If you are a regular traveler on Amtrak, the same few meal choices can become monotonous. I miss the cranberry juice, but that was already hit or miss, so I had already started to bring a can or two of it in the Liquor Purse. I never...