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Given anything resembling the current Vermonter timetable, which would have it arriving St Albans from Montreal at 9am, and departing...

I never suggested that VIA's crewing has any impact on this. VIA has nothing to do with this.

I would have the Springfield crew run to White River Junction, and a Montreal based crew employed by Amtrak run down to WRJ. Many years...

In a word, No. VIA trains are crewed by their own people, and lack a position called "conductor". The engineer actually handles checked...

There are more issues with using Springfield, MA crews into Canada such as learning French, Canadian railroad regs, qualify for the...

The CV/NECR side of the insulated rail joints and longer cross ties has the grade crossing, yet the crossing sign says to call CN for...

The point made about the remote Quebec trains is they had been over-nighted to avoid high daytime temperatures on CN's other lousy...

The majority of it is welded rail. I once read somewhere there are no rail anchors at all on this route regardless. There are 10...

Of course. Wednesday's train never left Montreal due to mechanical, though passengers were bussed. Somehow they scrounged up equipment...

I don't know about great performance. Right now, 63 is an hour late by Harmon. There was no 68 yesterday out of Montreal: "Service...

In the last few days, 63 broke down on the Mohawk Division, 281 brought it a new engine, and 63 proceded to Toronto 5 hours late. I was...

Run to Plattsburgh and then what ? Train cannot sit there or in the yard several miles south of Plattsburgh overnight. It is 4pm by the...

This seems to be about cutting out East River tunnel moves, such as by deadheads out and back to Sunnyside. Maybe fewer Keystone trains...

There's an Amtrak Fans Facebook. You also can't make reservations. As usual, Amtrak enjoys not being forthcoming.

You never know what will happen. Engines break down, the bridge at Albany gets stuck, the bridge at the northern tip of Manhattan gets...