Recent content by Charles785

OK - we've heard about the challenges in interesting any of the freight railroads in running a high quality passenger train - and we know how Amtrak in recent years has seemed to favor the northeast corridor and state-supported routes over the long distance service, but what about raising this...

Yes, I should have specified I was excluding Thruway bus connections and I was focusing on the contiguous 48 states. And from the above comments I see I missed at least seven metro areas that could have been in the top ten. Maybe a top twenty list would now be interesting.

I thought I would try to identify the 10 largest cities, ranked by metro population, that do not now have Amtrak service. Am I skipping over any? 1. Phoenix 4.575 million 2. Las Vegas 2.115 million 3. Nashville 2.072 million 4. Columbus 2.020 million 5. Louisville 1.396 million 6...

Yes, I have sometimes wondered if there would be price point that would make it profitable for BNSF to run an up to date version of the Santa Fe Super Chief and what that price point might be.

Thanks for your detailed comments, Lordsigna. I did find this Santa Fe ad. 1,082 × 1,600

This may have been addressed before but back in the day of the golden age of private rail passenger travel - Santa Fe, Great Northern, Chicago Burlington & Quincy, New York Central, Missouri Pacific, Rock Island, etc., did weather similar to what we're having now result in cancellations in most...

Since many of us first became aware of trains in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s when most trains were using E and F unit locomotives, we obviously thought that was just how streamlined trains were supposed to look. My, perhaps somewhat ignorant, question is why isn't it possible for locomotive...

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My daughter has booked a business class seat on Carolinian #80 - 16F - and is wondering if that might be a table seat. I'm not familiar with the configuration of business class on that train and wasn't sure if it was a dedicated car or not, and I haven't traveled in coach cars for a long time...

Would anyone here know something about the history of passenger train service in the Quad Cities. Did each of the communities - Davenport, Bettendorf, Moline, East Moline, and Rock Island has their own depots - or was there one so-called union station that served the region? Would the same...

Yes, airline travel was a real premiere travel experience at one time, even into the seventies perhaps, maybe even eighties. Anyway, I'm remembering in the early 1960s when most all domestic commercial flights served three-course meals. And they were served by young and attractive and very...

Just noticed this video that might be of interest. (I hope it's not hidden behind a paywall.) https://www.wsj.com/video/series/wsj-explains/why-amtrak-service-is-slow-in-most-of-the-us/298231BC-AF68-4C68-9828-5C8C590A269C?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1

On the Great American Stations website I think it said that baggage service was offered at Gallup. Does that mean that a ticket agent was employed by Amtrak and on duty there (before the station was closed)?

I'm sure my first commercial airline flight, in 1963, was aboard a Constellation - anyway it was a TWA flight from Wichita to Denver and I don't remember any discomfort from the coach seats. Would anyone know how the dimensions of those seats - and the spacing between rows - would compare to...

Anyone know why there is a delay on Amtrak Coast Starlight #14 near Chiloquin, Oreogon, today?