Recent content by Railroad Bill

Good to hear you are on the road to recovery Ed. Taking those mini vacations is a good way to have fun and not be riding in a plane for hours. Maybe by next fall you may make it to Toronto for a Gathering:cool:

Just now reading your Eaglette trip report. Dont we have fun riding 21&22:rolleyes: . Good to see you are out riding the rails Jim.

We took Amtrak from CLE to ORL for a cruise in Fort Lauderdale. Rode Silver Meteor from WAS and arrived in ORL close to on time. We had a lot of luggage so decided to take Lyft from ORL to Brightline at Orlando International Airport. We only waited 10 minutes and Lyft arrived, loaded our...

I would not be surprised that 30 and 48 are cancelled for this evening. With possible 50+ mph hour winds, there may be no trains crossing the Sandusky Bay bridge in Ohio for awhile.

Lived in San Jose in 1985 and do not remember riding any trains at that time. The downtown was beautiful with parks and flowers. Nice restaurants. Stayed with a family while our Rotary Group Exchange visited schools, museums and met interesting people. The highlight of a fantastic month long...

Nice photos Steve. Always enjoy LAUS and riding the Chief.

A Cleveland man attempted to use various metal objects to wedge into CSX and Amtrak tracks east of Cleveland. Cleveland man charged with terrorism after attempting to derail passenger train

Thanks Penny for the photos and trip report. Hoping the organizational skills improve for our future trip in November. We plan to take Amtrak from Ohio to Orlando and then ride Brightline to FTL for a cruise. May be an expensive trip to the airport since we have luggage to transport to the...

I have an N scale model layout and the lead locos on my Amtrak are #300 & #301. Pulling Capitol Ltd 30 with baggage car, dorm sleeper, regular sleeper, diner, cafe lounge and 2 coaches. Wish that consist would come back to 29 & 30

We usually fly Southwest since it has a hub in Columbus that allows us to obtain many non stop flights to Fla, east coast, and St Louis, Nashville and Denver. :People have generally been polite in the boarding process and crew have also been friendly as well. Some of the pilots have been a...

Looking forward to your report on transport from Sunrail; Lynx to Brightline terminal since we will be departing Amtrak at ORL and needing to get to Brightline for our ride to FTL. With luggage it might be better to take a cab or Lyft ride??

Any news on disruptions on Keystone & Pennsylvanian between HAR & PHL. Traffic seems to be stopped.

On my recent trip to Chicago I experienced the good and the bad of sleeping car attendants. On our 49, our SCA did not have the room in sleep mode when we boarded at 4am in CLE. He grumbled when we asked nicely to put the beds down. No pillows, no water. It happens occasionally that someone...

As a follow up to our Chicago dilemma, after a few hours of Amtrak organizing, those of us on 30, 48, 448 and Michigan service were put on a bus to downtown hotel. Nice place. Next morning bus arrived at 11am for ride back to CUS. I luckily got a call from Amtrak that evening and arranged for a...

All trains out of Chicago eastbound now cancelled We are sitting in Metro Lounge and just announced 30, 48 all Michigan trains cancelled with no alt transport. They will meet with us SOON. Just spending day in Chicago. Meds only fir tomorrow..Natives in lounge are restless