Recent content by rrdude

Your comments / thoughts about BNSF having to foot the bill for this are way off base. It does't matter if BNSF made $100 Billion last year, it's NOT (generally) their responsibility. Period.

It's not really the RR responsibility, (in most cases) to install lights-bells-gates, as the RR was there LONG BEFORE the road was. But counties and states don't want to pay the big bucks for crossing protection.

You can play it at 1/4 speed on YouTube, I don’t think it lifted up.

“With the trucks AWAY from the tracks” is what led me to speculate that they rolled, 2/3 over, and, as you mention, it does’t jib with other photos showing rescue teams, with the trucks nearer and facing tracks, so, “they must have been rolled” by contractors….

So Hulcher, (or whomever the Cleanup company is) “rolled over three Suplerliners, in a straight line, still coupled together”? Doesn’t seem practical, (except to clear wreckage in a hurry…but they are are all lined up so straight)...

Nope. Good call. I will get her flowers today!

Bought an Amtrak stainless steel vase off ebay or Amazon a few years back, been bringing my own damn flowers for years now. Some staff luv it, a few, "not so much"... Oh well.

No need to "talk", when they can sell all they offer at $691

I'm in a bit of a dilemma. Booked the Chief from LAX to CHI on July 4th, "WHEW.... just made the new cut-off for Flex Dining..." But am wondering what the chances of another push-back from Flex to Traditional might be ??? However, I got what appears to be a half-way decent fare, (but WAY more...

HE IS NOT

Still, it'd be awful nice, (but not too practical except to mileage collectors) to be able to enter the 3 letter Amtrak station code as START TRIP, and the 3 letter Amtrak station code as END TRIP, and have the mileage calculated out for you. (BONUS: One could design it with a "via" 3 letter...

Would I get a DISCOUNT then, if I don't want a toilet, and I get a roomette that has one?

I'm surprised that no one, or at least I cannot find it on the web, that no one has created a table/spreadsheet that allows one to enter the origin and destination station, and it will display the Amtrak route mileage between those two points. With all the "mileage collectors" out there I would...

NEVER MIND. Found them!

I’ll be in NYC today, and thought I had some 1 day Club Acela passes, I don’t! Anyone who has one, and would like to share (give) with me, much appreciated!