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    Passenger train service to Phoenix AZ.

    Yes using the "Peavine" route would be cheaper. The old Rock Island route or (what's left of it )is not really in that great shape and even when the line was intact the route that the Golden State used to connect to the Southern Pacific route at Tucumcari New Mexico was a single track line that...
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    Reserve Fleet, Retention Toilets and such logistical matters

    That's exactly what I had heard also which is also why they got rid of the Slumbercoaches. That is a real shame and they should have been able to come up with a retention toilet by now. But forget about the Retenion toilets altogether! This in my opinion is another case of over regulation to...
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    Passenger train service to Phoenix AZ.

    Thanks for sharing your story with us. That is the train I am talking about and as it was an overnight connection used to get people into Phoenix in the morning if they were coming from some overnight trains on the Santa Fe mainline. As you were saying it was really designed to be a connecting...
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    Passenger train service to Phoenix AZ.

    That's not a bad idea and as I said when the Santa Fe ran a Chicago to Phoenix sleeper which as a rule was from December through April that Sleeper would often run one way on the San Francisco Chief and the other way on the Chief and it would sometime also run on the Grand Canyon. I don't know...
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    Passenger train service to Phoenix AZ.

    Thanks for bringing up those details on the Peavine route out of WIllams Junction and yes it is a slow route which is probably the reason that at least in the 1960s and most of the 50s the Santa Fe only ran an overnight connecting train to the mainline however an overnight connecting train is...
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    Railway bridge under construction collapse in North-Eastern India...

    That is a terrible tragedy and things like that shouldn't have to happen. I have to admit that when I first saw your headline I had misread it and I had thought that I was in Indiana as opposed to India.
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    Passenger train service to Phoenix AZ.

    While I don't know for a fact those tracks east of Yuma may still be there which would be great. I really don't see how they have let Phoenix go without direct service for so long. Even in 1996 when the service was cut it seemed to me that the Amtrak managment was very lax in letting the Union...
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    Passenger train service to Phoenix AZ.

    There is a logistical problem with the current ex Southern Pacific route and that a portion of the route east of Yuma Arizona is not in service. I really don't know how much work needs to be done to get it back in service however. If the ex Sante Fe "Peavine route" from Williams Junction...
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    Passenger train service to Phoenix AZ.

    Yes that is exactly the point that I am trying to make. It would be a great idea if there was a Phoenix section on the Southwest Chief. The Sante Fe Railway ran the connecting train for years and while the through sleepers (which were seasonal) usually ran on the Chief and on the San Francisco...
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    Passenger train service to Phoenix AZ.

    I am sure that many of you are well aware that Phoenix Az has not had direct passenger train service since June of 1996 and even before the Sunset Limited was rerouted out of Phoenix the service was inadequate just as it is today with Tri Weekly Service from Los Angeles to New Orleans with...
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    Future direct Chicago-Florida Route

    Thanks for calling it to the groups attention. The route from Chicago to Florida should have never been discontinued and short of that it should have been restored a long time ago. Direct service from Chicago or the Midwest to Florida is desperately needed and no one can deny that there is and...
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    Capitol Limited discussion

    Thanks for letting me know about what happened as I have been trying to find out more about it since last night. I have these friends who received an email...
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    Capitol Limited discussion

    Train 30 the eastbound Capital Limited of July 30th 2023 had been canceled. Does anyone have any idea as to why it was canceled, the west bound trains have been arriving in Chicago.
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    Siemens Caltrans/IDOT Venture design, engineering, testing and delivery (2012-2024)

    This is the same mistake that the early Amtrak managment made during the early 1970s when they ordered the Anf Frangeco train sets which were run between Chicago St Louis, MIlwaukee and Detroit for a few years before eventually being taken out of service for the more practical Amfleet and...
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    Siemens Caltrans/IDOT Venture design, engineering, testing and delivery (2012-2024)

    Yes that was my mistake as I actually did have the Airo train sets in mind and they going to be in either 6 or 8 car configurations according to what I read. I take it that the Airo and the Venture cars are supposed to be practically the same in terms of the design or will there really be any...
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