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Good question! I should have explained. I had already determined that city buses don’t come close to the light house park. So I took Uber from downtown. As we arrived, the driver said “leave yourself some time to get an Uber to come out here to take you back. Drivers don’t like to come out...

I did a spur of the moment train trip to see the final day of racing at Saratoga Springs on Labor Day and then a bucket list trip to Portland, ME, to see the Portland Head Light. Nine rides and all of them almost dead on time! And the windows were pretty clean too! And I should mention all...

July 26 now. Needless to say, our rail trip to Jasper is no longer an option. So tragic that the monster wildfires have destroyed so much of Canada with no end in sight. So, no trip report forthcoming from me. 😥

Thank you! I did not know that. I’ll try it

I don’t look at Amtrak alerts much, but occasionally I do, if they seem to be having more trouble than usual staying on time. I like to know what’s going on and why. Just now, 10:30 pm EDT July 19, I checked the asm.transitdoc map and it was really red! Seemed like pblms everywhere! So I...

Our Via Rail trip Prince Rupert Jasper Vancouver is just a month away! As a lifelong rail fan, I’m already excited! As one who’d rather be beamed up than ride, she’s stoic! 😆 We will lay over in PR two days since we arrive from Victoria by BC Ferry and its schedule doesn’t line up exactly...

Awesome, if it does indeed show up on our Prince Rupert-Jasper trip this coming August 25-26! If it does, trust me! I'll be on it and I will surely let you all know in my trip report one way or another if it shows up or not!

I’ll try to remember enough about the whole loop to do a thorough report once we’re back home around the end of August!

This is all,great! Just what I wanted to know. My impetus for asking was I can watch the Railstream cam on the west line just past the 90degree bend south of the station and I was curious which trains I might see doing their wye as they arrive. This was what I thought too when I looked at the...

Bingo! Ordered it!

Just curious. I looked at a blowup of the asm.transitdocs map of rail lines into Chicago’s Union Station ( which I commuted to and from many decades ago) and I’m asking which Amtrak routes back into the south platforms? From the map, it seems as if some do and not others.

Not sure this trip will include enough trains to qualify for posting, but we’ll see. My wife and I will fly to Vancouver BC in August and then loop around BC and Jasper AB by a combo of means incl airport shuttle, bus, ferry to Swartz Bay, bus to Victoria, four bus rides in series from...

This is a wonderful long thread about the history of the Jasper-Prince Rupert trains. My wife and I will do the trip PR-J this August as part of a loop around BC and into and back out of Jasper. Maybe I’ll post a trip report here or somewhere on this board. Or not. 😆 I’d like to see...

I looked back and didn’t find many recent posts answering my questions so I’ll post mine. What’s the typical consist on the Cardinal these days, as of May and June roughly? I’m considering a day trip in coach in June btwn Charleston WV and White Sulphur Springs. Right now the date I’m...

Friday, March 15, 1:15pm. Today’s 90 Palmetto from Savannah to New York got within a train length of the Selma station on time, but stopped for nearly 30 minutes, while I was (am ) watching on a rail cam. Then it pulled forward a few car lengths and stopped again, still not at the platform...

Am I late to the party and everyone else here already knows this? I recall some months back reading opinions like my own that despaired when Amtrak stopped displaying the little % full diagrams on the trains you could choose when booking online. I just saw that on one page, anyway, that I...

I’m confused about toilet configurations in sleeper cabins for one where the bed covers the in-room toilet at night. It’s not clear to me at all if you just put your bed up temporarily and go. I’ve looked at fuzzy coach diagrams on viarail.ca and I can’t tell if there’s a common toilet in the...

Thank you for that explanation. Most of my Amtrak rides are on Superliners and I don’t follow the distinction btwn types of cars on the NEC, so I didn’t know some of the cars are already “interchange”. That explains so much.

I just found this thread and I just thought of this Q. Maybe asked and answered…does the switch to fixed fwd and bwd seating mean all new cars built this way from scratch or has Amtrak simply renovated its existing fleet one car at a time to do whatever it took to accomplish this configuration?

Buried in a thread about backward seating on northeast trains I see a ref to new schedules going into effect tomorrow? Monday, March 4? Brings to mind my usual dilemma: being an olde guy who still uses paper and pencil whenever I can, I always want to have a paper copy of a schedule to...