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Sounds like you needed to do a modern version of the old "chicken sandwich, hold the chicken" movie scene. "Rum and Coke, hold the rum."

I haven't been there, but a coworker recently returned from a trip to Japan and she was singing the praises of the place. She was with a tour group but they went everywhere by train, and she was impressed by the trains. More interestingly, she said the trip was inexpensive, which pleasantly...

Yep, that's the one. Stops at street level by the health club as the photo shows, on the mezzanine across from the food court, and on the concourse level across from the southern platforms as the map shows.

Metra releases 2025 budget with no fare increases or service cuts. Balanced using much, but not all, of the remaining COVID relief. Which IMHO is the right decision, if for no other reason that it's a clear recognition that the past "remedy" of higher and higher fares and less and less service...

Another option is Metra Electric from Van Buren St. to 55-57th St. and vice versa. Gotta get east to Michigan Ave., but there's a ton of buses on Jackson Blvd. eastbound & Adams St. westbound, or about a 20-minute walk.

Not disagreeing with the outrageous part, but $58.8 million divided by 635 locos and cab-cars equipped is $92,598.43 each. Still a preposterous sum for public entities to overcome the private host railroad's crossing-signal issues, but nigh-$100k per unit is literally an order of magnitude less...

Looking at the list, you get to the 10th least-used station before you get to a station with daily service, Browning MT, and it doesn't have service in the summer months. So, surprise, surprise!, the lowest-ridership stations don't get 365 round-trips a year; in further news, the sun rose this...

I'm not from Ohio, but under the convention center was the last thing I saw floating around. Linky. Linky.

To respond to (most of) your points: *Hope you're right about the end of the post-pandemic travel surge, would take some pressure off sleeper pricing. *Some rooms are worn, some aren't. Try a Viewliner II sleeper if you can. *Haven't run into hostile on-board staff yet. Have run into plenty...

The Venture cars in the Midwest haven't freed up enough Horizons for the Gulf Coast service? I agree! Short trains not triggering the crossing gates is the host railroad's problem, since it clearly doesn't affect all railroads. Judging from what I've seen on rail-cams, I think Amtrak's using...

If they had the $$ to re-lay the tracks between Petoskey and Mackinaw City, you'd have a destination that is (1) famously car-free, and (2) popular with Chicagoans and other urbanites who drive there now because you have to.

I don't think people 100 years ago even knew Portland was susceptible to earthquakes. My understanding from some PBS documentaries (and fresh googling) is the last major earthquake in Cascadia was a huge one in 1700 but nobody, other than the natives who passed on stories, even knew it had...

RPA post on Amtrak's progress putting cars back into service I doubt Amtrak is stupid enough to spend $$ fixing a group of cars only to sideline another group of cars just for sh*ts and giggles. I doubt even more that RPA would be sanguine about Amtrak doing so. RPA's post on the Floridian...

There's no lounge car for coach passengers on the single-level long-distance trains, and that's been so for years. It's not like the scenic parts of America are entirely west of Chicago and New Orleans. (Did Amtrak have lounges on single-level-LDs before Viewliners? Did the pre-Amtrak railroads...

At a minimum, the (FRA, I think) workshops & planning on new long-distance routes should be complete before Amtrak orders new LD fleets, single-level or bi-level. Ideally, Congress should adopt a dedicated revenue source for Amtrak capital investments so multi-year planning can be done with...

A lot closer than Brazil. Some electric freight locos intended for the Soviet railways went to the electrified interurban Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad and were called "Little Joes" for Joe Stalin. I don't think anyone had the nerve to ask the Generalissimo what he thought of the...

Many agree with you, but many others want Amtrak to continue having bilevel cars outside the routes to and from NYC. Since it's been years since Superliners were ordered and Amtrak is under pressure (legal requirement?) to improve accessibility for the disabled, a bilevel with "somewhat of a...

Sorry, misunderstood, context matters.

Both serve flex like the Cap, unless something changed since the last time I paid attention to which LD routes serve flex and which serve traditional dining.

And yet there's no way to take Amtrak between the Midwest and East Coast otherwise.