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I was wondering why it wouldn't offer a connection to that bus--the potential for delays and misconnects and not wanting to guarantee it makes sense, though. It's kind of irrelevant, though--I have a 6pm dinner Friday to be at in MKE, so if I want to get there by that time, I'll either have to...

I'll be traveling from Springfield, MO to CHI (and onto MKE) in a couple of weeks and will be gone for about 5 days. I had thought about driving to Alton, IL and catching the Lincoln Service there (parking looked plentiful and free last time I drove by the station), but it looks like the fares...

Who knew AU would be the best place on the Internet to find info on Greyhound! I'm traveling from SGF to STL next week (catching a flight out of STL that's 1/3 the price of one out of SGF). I had to change my date and so my e-ticket became a print-at-home ticket, hence me doing some searching...

Alan was far too young to go. Others have spoken about all his tireless work for our community and public transit as a wholeit goes without saying that this is a great loss for all of us. My earliest memory of Alan was an early visit to New York, where he met me at Penn Station upon my arrival...

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amtrak-guest-rewards/1882781-pnw-routes-losing-scenic-stretch-after-dec-17th.htmlsays yes. I have a friend who works in production on CBS Evening News. I told him to tell the powers that be to quit referring to it as a "high-speed train." We'll see if it has any...

On an inaugural run with VIPs aboard, how likely is it the engineer was alone in the cab? Granted, they'd been running tests for weeks, but still, it seems that early on in its use and with VIPs aboard, chances were there were two or three people (at least two of whom were qualified on the...

That's basically the conclusion I've come to. I've seen it occasionally in the past on Keystones when loads are very light, but that's excusable because there's more than enough room in the open cars. This past week, I experienced it on multiple sections of the Silver Star as well as today's...

Hasn’t really been an issue before, but it’s annoyed me three separate times in the past week, where conductors are keeping cars closed despite the open cars running full. I can understand it on an empty train, but when cars are full, why not allow people to spread out? Are they actually doing...

I don’t know what specific facilities they added, but a news article I read this morning indicated a $5 million layover facility was constructed. As for the route, it’s the one highlighted in this image: (That’s from the system-map.pdf file from the NS website, with my highlighting, of...

So, it's no longer canceled. Not sure whether that's a or a ...

I thought previous TL detours bypassed everything to SAC, which makes sense (following the route of the Bakersfield-Sacramento San Joaquins and then north from there), but some Googling indicates that Oakland is the normal rejoining point. No idea how that works, though, if they follow the...

Not a lot of notice, but came across this: https://www.amtrak.com/alert/pacific-surfliner-trackwork-oxnard-goleta-california.html I assume that means the Starlight is being detoured over Tehachapi today. Can anyone confirm? Too bad it's not next week--I have some free time and would have...

I called in and the agent said that the system says "trackwork west of Raleigh." She didn't know why that wasn't noted in the service advisory, but I asked her to send a note up the chain (she responded that she could but it likely wouldn't do much).

Nothing at https://www.amtrak.com/routes/carolinian-piedmont-train.html about it (it's past the dates mentioned in the NS trackwork notice, and for a different day of the week), but when I try to book RMT-CLT on 10/31, it says "Canceled." Any ideas why? Or is it just a glitch with the glitchy...

AFAICT, and AFAIK from reading Amtrak's public statements on the issue, all single-level (including long-distance) trains now have the official Nomad Digital-supported AmtrakConnect wifi. Additionally, it seems they're working on getting it installed on the Superliner LD fleet. The car I'm...