Recent content by boratwanksta

Speaking of this, NICTD finally did temporarily close the 11th and Franklin(and also it's near Pine) South Shore station in downtown Michigan City on May 1st, 2021, for the next 21/2 years to construct a high level platform. They also are turning 11th Street into a one way eastbound street, and...

Wow, and I thought the R32 railcars in service on a few lines in NYC(including the J and Z subway lines, and on one other line I'm forgetting) from the early to mid-1960s, were very old as heck! Supposedly I think all R32s finally were all retired like a year or 2 ago, according to a few online...

South Bend's airport, has the South Shore Line(South Bend-Chicago) directly serving that airport. And while it isn't a direct train connection, Transpo bus route #4 does put you(after you board it at South Bend Airport) within 21/2 blocks(if you get off/on at Orange St and Olive St), of the...

Georgia did change their liquor laws sometime in the 2010s(IIRC the approximate year when it occurred) to allow Sunday sales, if local voters approve it in a referendum. Where I suspect at least for Atlanta and Fulton County, and probably certain other populated counties(i.e. Gainesville, and...

I need to do a train trip VERY, very soon, if this is the case. Since I last did a big Amtrak train trip(the one to Glacier National Park), in July 2019. Since I really don't want to lose the AGR points I got, doing that trip.

So Vermont finally is restoring their state supported trains, by July 2021? Good to hear, though I wish they had done that sooner IMO. As I remember, Vermont was like the only state that didn't restore at least some level of their state supported train runs, by mid to late 2020. I wish on a...

I know thanks to watching Virtual Railfan cameras, that Sightseer Lounges hadn't ran on Capitol Limited(Elkhart camera) and Texas Eagle(Big Sandy, TX camera) as of late. Are those the only long distance trains at the moment with Superliner cars, where the Sightseer Lounge is temporarily not...

i posted that btw, just forgot to login when i wrote that, dumb me. :blink: and damn myself for getting confused, i relooked at this thread and saw the pic, and realized i saw a different Dash-8 than 507. but i did definately see at least two in the old paint scheme in the Chicago Yard that...

H571 is 20% off, and i'm not sure about H569, but i think IIRC, it's 15% off. H570 actually gives you a better deal(25% off), but you now have to book that code with an agent or on the phone(and can no longer do it online). i used to use H570 all the time, until they stopped allowing riders to...

very cool pics, i'd sure love it if Amtrak's sleepers were as spacious as that! i wouldn't be surprised either if some of the former railroads(pre-Amtrak) had sleepers that were as spacious as the Trans-Mongolian. and i agree with your point about the dining cars, people definately desire this...

are there any plans to create an east-west route, or at least one going east of Alburquerque? i've looked at their site before, and i only remember seeing their plans to extend the line north to Santa Fe(and eventually further north from there to around Raton and the NM/CO line, and south to...

haha, your last comment is so well said. and thanks to AlanB and fri1983 for clarifying the Morton Grove incident for me, though i'm hoping to read at least 1-2 actual entries about the little details about this incident when i get the chance to do so.

thanks for posting the link to it, i'll look at it later. i'm curious to see the commercial anyway, even if its just a basic PSA. and btw, i originally posted as 'guest' on that post, only b/c i was silly enough to forget to login last night on this site. but c'est la vie.... :)

amen to that 100%. now if there was a campaign to property educate the ignorant 'security guards'(really nothing more than rent-a-cops) i often see sitting on their arse in CTA 'L customer attendant booths, and get those dumb***** to realize that there's nothing illegal about shooting pictures...