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THOSE CITIES/TOWNS STILL HAVE SERVICE. OK, it's a bus connection. BUT THEY HAVE SERVICE. Actually I believe the University of Florida (Gainesville) has better service now, because the bus, IIRC, actually stops IN Gainesville, not out of town at Waldo where the Palm/Palmetto used to stop...

re Florida routes; Tri-Rail commuter trains currently cover West Palm to south of Miami Amtrak, using the same tracks and stations, as Amtrak, except that Amtrak Miami is a "dead end" station that Tri-Rail does not serve. All other Amtrak stops from West Palm south are both Amtrak and Tri-Rail...

Melbourne area population about 400,000 Daytona area population over 250,000 Titusville area: over 50,000, and includes quick access to Cocoa Beach, the Kennedy Space Center, the Port Canaveral Cruise Ship Terminal etc. St. Augustine area over 50,000 Vero Beach area over 120,000 Port Saint...

If you are keeping the Palmetto and adding Silver Palm, then why not run Palm down the FEC line from JAX to MIA? There is no passenger service south of JAX to West Palm on the Florida east coast. Amtrak and FEC were in serious talks a few years ago about starting up a passenger service on the...

Wikipedia has a page on it, with some links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Palo_Verde_derailment

Actually that's not a bad idea. A steam engine as lead, with a P42 behind it for hotel power and backup motive would probably generate a lot more ridership. Use that for NOL-JAX as a bridge between Silver Service trains and Sunset/CONL/Crescent. I'd certainly ride it! :lol: :)

Amtrak has a very legitimate concern, as indeed any trademark holder and copyright holder that actually uses those things for marketing and business identity. If you allow them to be used in an uncontrolled fashion, they can lose their usefulness, and they can create a "fuzzyness" in your...

The Amtrak spokesman's comment about shovel-ready was appropriate, because he was certainly shoveling a lot of material emanating from the south end of a northbound bull. His comment that Amtrak doesn't own the tracks was irrelevant and misleading. They never did own those tracks, and those...

And then of course there are location-specific sub-strains of the condition, like Trainophiliadelphia :lol: :lol: :lol: And those with persistent plumbing problems occasionally have a similar syndrome called Drainophilia, not to be confused with a "pipe dream". All sorts of things flow...

I dunno about the thaw out part. It was 26 F here just north of Orlando this morning. Revolting!

South Florida Tri-Rail's system is undergoing renovations, apparently, but when I last used it, it showed the system map, and every train running on it, with the train's number, the current location, the OTP status of it in minutes, and a color code for each train symbol that corresponded to a...

The bus rules aren't the only stupid and wacky part of travel in that corridor. You can't buy a train ticket from Lakeland to Tampa, or from Tampa to Lakeland, either. The system won't let you. Northbound OR southbound. You simply cannot use Amtrak to travel between those two stations. They...

I am certainly in agreement that we NEED that service NOL-JAX. But your proposed schedule would have that train and 97 running JAX-MIA less than a half hour apart all the way down the Florida peninsula, which is a waste of equipment and fuel, and would be a real hassle for the station agents...

True to a point, but if you time it right (overnight), you can connect with 91 and/or 97 to get them to Orlando or all the way to Miami, and same-day connections northbound on 92/98. And time the return trip right and 92 and/or 98 can get you pax from Miami/ORL, etc., to the train headed for...

Actually the story I heard was it collided with a tanker truck carrying A&W, and they ended up with one big ROOT BEER FLOAT!!

Not a very pleasant place to walk, according to what I see on the news, even disastrously cold and snow/ice. It's cold enough down here near Orlando, with expected lows tomorrow morning in the mid-upper 30's (yeah, I know, springtime weather up north, but for us, normal low would be about 47).

I'm not sure the "pushed gently" is an accurate description of going from zero to the locomotive's velocity in 0.1 seconds, especially if the train is traveling at, say, 60mph. With the mass of the locomotive, compared to that of the car, it is the equivalent of the car being dropped on it's...

So somebody thinks that Coach is for the birds, huh? And every time the OP calls Amtrak to see if he can find somebody who will say it's ok, they all just keep parroting the same answer.......

Thanks, Eric. It was nice to escape for a few hours. Shotgun, if your 92 was on new year's eve (92-31), you were one day ahead of us - our travel was on new year's day. The southbound 97 we took was 97-31, originating in New York Dec. 31st, but in Florida WPK was our station of origin, on Jan...

We went to the Diner at about 5:40 which would have been after TPA, I think. So we missed seeing you, I guess. Maybe next trip. With the FL railpass (which they no longer sell, but ours are good through about mid-July 09 I think) all we have to do is show up in time for the train and just...