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Not clear to me how smooth the transition from freight to passenger service is -- but there a substantial number of people who have...

My first Amtrak trip was in 1973 or 1974 on the Empire Builder from Glasgow Montana to Seattle. Talk about whiplash, I was so busy...

If 'first experience' means 'first ride', mine was my parents and I being driven from Idaho to Salt Lake City by my grandfather, to...

I think that's a big part of what frustrates a lot of us with this new map. It's not so much a map of what Amtrak would do with more...

We are on the same page then. It may well be they do always sell it when it is needed now. (You're making me feel old, remembering...

I don't recall ever seeing more than the transdorm and two full sleepers (and a second coach) on the Seattle section. Not saying it's...

My impression is that there is still a large Seattle-Whitefish ski business. That's the only reason I can think of why winter Builders...

You aren't missing anything much. $700 is particularly bad, but it always costs more to fly from here to Seattle or Denver than from...

I am glad to see somebody at Amtrak marketing is aware that Montana to West Coast is a market where they are very competitive - easy...

Just for the 'ell of it I searched google "flights Portland to Kalispell." It took me to kayak.com. and low and behold look what turned...

You are having an extremely good day if you succeed in making it from Havre to Seattle in 5 or 6 hours. I have had to fly from...

I am glad to hear that was the plan. It seemed to me that the logical solution was to run the Desert Wind through Wyoming, and continue...

For the Builder, in my experience when the transdorm roomettes are being sold to the public, the sleeper adjacent to the transdorm is...

The Big Sky Passenger Rail Authority -- and the way it has attracted national attention but zero interest from state government -- is...

Then there is always "The umbrella is in there. You find it". If anyone hasn't heard that story, I'll expand on it.