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Siegmund replied to the thread Empire Builder discussion.If you can get to West Glacier there will be shuttles to take you across to East Glacier. But it varies year to year whether there is a... -
Siegmund replied to the thread Hello from Southern Idaho.Welcome aboard. I grew up in southern Idaho, long enough ago to have boarded the Pioneer in Pocatello in the dead of night a few times...
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Siegmund replied to the thread Amtrak dining service.And that is exactly what Amtrak did, for several decades. They turned the people over faster than that, though - the 4 seatings were 45...
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Siegmund replied to the thread Empire Builder Chicago to Seattle in mid-winter.It's not so much "attracted to the tracks," or even "attracted to free food", as "prone to alcoholism." Piles of grain left to rot...
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Siegmund replied to the thread Passengers with severe allergies?.Re the pressurization thing: As mentioned, commercial flights very often are pressurized to only 8,000 feet (it's very expensive, in...
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As someone who had managed government contracts, my experience has been that it really doesn't pay to contract out something unless you... -
Siegmund replied to the thread Ontario Northland service to return.The old VIA schedules can be found online a few places. Grabbing a schedule before and after 1990 at random: Summer 1989: VIA...
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When I took my first cross-country trip in 1977, there were connections advertised at both Laredo and El Paso, although the timing at El...
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Somewhere I have a 1947 New York Central timetable that shows the Southwestern Limited running in two sections, one of which carried a...
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Siegmund replied to the thread Historical rail travel in US and Mexico question.Yes... what they didn't ever do, as far as I know, is put any through cars from the US onto a train from Mexicali to Guadalajara or...
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Siegmund replied to the thread Historical rail travel in US and Mexico question.I can only add that in the Amtrak schedules of the mid-70s, when the old Inter-American continued past San Antonio to Laredo, there was...
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Siegmund replied to the thread Long Distance (LD) fleet replacement discussion (2022-23).Can confirm that in the 'olden days' they knew how to get people in and out very efficiently. I don't remember seeing 5 dinner seatings...
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Siegmund replied to the thread Long Distance (LD) fleet replacement discussion (2022-23).At least two possibilities come to mind: One of them is having 36-inch aisles on only one level of a bilevel car -- and perhaps having...
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Siegmund replied to the thread Empire Builder discussion.It was more doable when the Starlight's running time was shorter. 40 years ago, before there was a Portland section of the Builder, it...
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Siegmund replied to the thread Empire Builder discussion.That's an improvement over making the closure announcement approaching Wishram (though some sleeper folks still did get handed their...
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