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Unless you live next door to the station, always consider the possibility of a car wreck (not yours, somebody else's) on the road on the way to the station, or some road construction, or a tree-trimmer's truck, or something like that adding a few minutes (or a half hour) to your drive to the...

Of course the time of day when the Star and Meteor come through Orlando is a lot more civilized than the middle-of-the-night Silver Palm/Palmetto was, and I suspect that had something to do with it as well. But we're still very happy to once again have service direct from the Orlando Corridor...

Actually I don't think competition with the bus was the problem. In fact, I don't think you can book the bus between those two stations, either. You cannot book the bus alone in Florida. For instance, you cannot book Tampa to Ft. Myers, unless it is as part of a train connection. The bus...

The Amtrak train schedules on the Amtrak site, and the published system timetables, include that information. As an aid in reading the Amtrak schedules, if you look at trains 92 and 98, which depart Miami northbound, you will notice an " R " next to the times listed for each of the stations up...

According to the Amtrak Reservations website, you cannot book the thruway bus independent of a rail segment. So you could not do a TPA-Sarasota, or Sarasota-Ft. Myers one way or round trip. It MUST include a segment of travel by rail. Presumably that would also apply to the railpass. When...

From the Amtrak Home Page, Select "Hot Deals" Then Select (left side vertical menu) Rail Passes Then Select Florida Rail Pass

The Pass includes use of the Amtrak bus that goes from Tampa down to Ft. Myers, stopping at St. Pete, Bradenton, Sarasota, Pt. Charlotte, and Ft. Myers, and between Orlando and Tampa (which you would need if you wanted to connect with 98 northbound from Orlando or 97 Southbound into Orlando)...

Florida Resident Annual Railpass. Currently $249. Sometimes they have put it on sale for $199 for a month or so each year. With this Pass, (you MUST be a Florida Resident - some slight exceptions for military or students, I think, the rules are on the Amtrak site), you have unlimited travel...

Had the largest crowd I've ever seen at WPK getting off the train and also the largest group getting on. There were 40 pax detraining at WPK from 91 and 40 pax just with TPA as a destination, plus a lot of others for other stations, (91 continues all the way down to MIA). Large crowd at ORL as...

[likewise hat off] (1) Amen, (2) Amen (and add thousands of dead American G.I. men and women who were ordered to go tilting at foreign windmills to that 9/11 casualties number), and (3) AMEN to the Constitutional issue, to the point where he has specifically put in writing when signing some of...

Right now, Lake Okeechobee is on fire - there is a roughly 600 acre fire INSIDE the diked area, and they expect that to spread to at least three times that size. That is how low the water level is in Lake Okeechobee. My suggestion would be take 91 down to Deerfield Beach, and take a municipal...

In these days of increasing fuel costs and decreasing supply, and India and China rapidly increasing their use of it, ANYTHING that can avoid traffic lights, where half the traffic is always sitting idling away precious gasoline, should be done. So instead of designing intersections with...

And another piece of the puzzle is that Amtrak is invisible to most Americans. An abysmal percentage of desk clerks in major hotel chains are even aware that Amtrak has a passenger terminal in their city. If you ask them how far it is to the train station, they are more likely than not to give...

The whole Central Florida Commuter Rail issue is now in doubt. The State of Florida has lots and lots of sand and right now the Florida Legislature appears to be checking out the depth of that sand with their heads. If they can be equated to horses, with the horses' heads in the sand, the...

(continuing OT :lol: ) I think the reason the AC's are so expensive is that they are a lot more complicated. The standard DC loco has a diesel which drives an alternator which generates AC which is then put through a solid-state rectifier stack and fed to the traction motors. Pretty...

I'll make a guess at the dynamic braking issue. Frequently, if not "normally", Amtrak engineers use stretch braking. That means they are still applying motive power (and burning a slightly higher rate of fuel) while applying the brakes to the passenger cars. This keeps tension on the couplers...

The proof as to who was correct will come as statistical data emerges over time on failures to P42s after the change vs failure rates before the change.

Didn't they used to have a system that hung the mailbag out on a post that was grabbed by the mail car on a moving train as it went by? Seems like technology has gone significantly backwards and perhaps something like that needs to be looked at again, rather than cutting cars. Or have more of...

And why does Chicago exist as the only hub that needs all the extra hot deal help while the rest of the system is completely ignored?

Unfortunately you cannot book a ticket from Tampa to Lakeland or from Lakeland to Tampa. With the revised (later) 92, it would give a Lakeland businessperson 3 - 5 hours in downtown Tampa for business, but you cannot book a ticket to travel between those two stations. Even with a Florida...