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We still have several crude oil refineries to open and expand yet on the East Coast. I think the traffic is just going to get worse.

ARC tunnel design made no sense. #7 to Secaucus makes a little sense. Gateway makes more sense and is needed. I don't fault them for stopping ARC, but they really should have come up with a "better" plan before they cancelled it outright. Whatever they are doing back and forth now will not...

Secaucus Junction may have been overbuilt, and a tunnel to NY might be needed, but the Main/Bergen Lines on NJT have been the best performing, fastest growing lines on the system since the station was built. There is no denying that. The station itself has not been a flop like other people...

I've taken the blue line to O'Hare... that is one long train ride! Plenty of stops along the way...

I like Amtrak... I really do. Like I said, if I had more time and money, I would ride them more. But if I limited time to take trips and the choice is a 2 hour flight or a 19 hour Amtrak trip, I'll walk through the TSA lines. I've never had anyone act inappropriately and if you empty your...

Is the TSA really that bad? I fly frequently and it rarely takes me over 5-10 minutes to completely get through security. All you do is empty your pockets, take off your shoes, and walk through a metal detector. I've never had a horror story. If you have nothing in your pockets, they don't...

AT&T... (what they don't know won't hurt them...)

I got a slingbox so I could watch TV on my iPhone. I tried it on Amtrak and it worked decently well through most areas... but not so well once you hit the state of Iowa....

Railroadradio.com absolutely does work for the iPhone. I listen to it all the time (yes, thanks for the unlimited data plan). It even works when AT&T slows down my speed every month for going over 3GB. According to a friend of mine, though, it does not work on the Android system.

If Amtrak were to pick one route from NY to Chicago, which route would be the fastest? Would it be the old Broadway Limited route, the NYC LSL route, a combination of the two, or an unused but in tact other route? Maybe via Toledo, Cleveland and Pittsburgh? Just wondering what anyone thought...

I believe Southwest Airlines only has 137 seats in their 737 planes. Leg room seems adequate in there as well. I have a very difficult time convincing my family (and a lot of times myself) that I should take a train between 2 major cities instead of a plane. I can't justify it when I can...

I've only been in NY and Chicago. Chicago is nicer.

If you are hungry early, it is probably best to go before Albany. When the Boston section is added, it will probably become more crowded. And yes, the lights do go off in Albany but there are emergency lights that can provide some light... its the same throughout the rest of the train.

You'll have to take a bus from the airport to the BWI train station. It's probably about a 15 minute ride and they run probably every 15 minutes during the day... so you'll definitely have to leave some time for that.