Recent content by lostcat

A Williston to Spokane train would not connect with the Empire Builder at one end or the other. I recommend a Billings to Spokane train with through cars to both Seattle and Portland Operationally the Southern MT train would become the PDX section ofthe Empire Builder. A 10:30 pm arrival at...

I’ve sometime wondered what if the ICC had said “not ever” rather than “not yet” to the BN merger in 1968. Would the NP and MILW have merged? Assuming they could have resolved the issues that stymied a MILW-CNW merger, An NP-MILW merger would certainly have hastened the demise of the electrics...

A short term solution is to run both silver trains on the same schedule south of Savanna via Tampa. An 8pm arrival in Miami would also permit a same day connection from Boston for both trains. Northbound, an 8-10am departure gets into NYP in time to connect north.

The KC connection was made at Centralia and ran over the former Southern to St Louis. Another option is to split the CON at Memphis becoming day trains to New Orleans, and Birmingham/Montgomery/Mobile.

I was on a Silver Meteor that detured through the port of Savanna around a derailment on the former ACL SAL diamond. there was room for a switch engine and two coaches between the derailment and a trailing point switch to the industrial lead. The Star, Auto train, and Meteor were set over two...