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You win. Whatever...

Good grief! I wasn't being quite as specific as you may have thought me to be. I know what happened at Bayou Canot. Wind. Boats crashing. Tornado. The end result would be the same: Superliners in the water... Passengers hurt or worse... Helicopters circling overhead... Blue and red lights...

A timely question with all the bad weather around the country. It appears that Norfolk Southern needs to watch The Weather Channel. Last week they knowingly allowed rail traffic across the Sandusky Bay in 50 to 70 mph winds. These winds were no surprise like the last time this happened in 2003...

Why would you believe that it was the current administration?

http://www.myfoxcleveland.com/myfox/pages/...mp;pageId=1.1.1 Pretty scary stuff when your son's school sends out a computer phonecall telling you about the derailment and possible evacuation. Luckily my son's school was not in the affected area.

http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/blog.php?b=858

I really like the apple cinnamon muffins. I usually buy several to take home with me whenever I ride Amtrak.

Personally, I like hearing the horn. To me it's part of the overall experience of on-board train travel. The trip we took on the EB 3 years ago, we were in the family bedroon at the very back of the train (save for two AE cars full of apples). We could not hear the horn at all. It was kinda...

That area used to have a bad reputation years ago but after taking 4 trips out of CLE in the last 3 years I can pretty much safely say that there isn't anyone around to cause trouble in the area of the station. The cops recently ran off a group of homeless folks who had been camping not far from...

I have noticed that the pitch of the horns on trains changes with the altitude as trains traverse up and down mountains.

My best man in our wedding made the reservations at the Allerton back in 1988 when my wife and I got married. He assured us that his mother stayed there regularly (she did radio shows as a psychic). Were we ever shocked when we checked in and saw what a dump it really was. 88 degrees and no...

I have run into countless Amtrak on-train employees "wit additudes" who seem forever eager to spread their special brand of joy. So why is it such a surprise that station employees wouldn't follow the same bad example? Believe me, I do not EVER go around looking for trouble. I am always polite...

Yes, that's it! I thought Gino's had just the one location but I found the one behind the Allerton by looking up Gino's site. Thanks! I just hafta hit that place again! I already have it all mapped out from the CTA site.

My son and I will be riding the Capitol Limited west to Chicago out of Cleveland in a few weeks. I was wondering if breakfast is served in the dining car before the train reaches Chicago. We will be riding the Lateshore Limited back home a few days later. I know that there is no dinner served...

If BO is a reason for being tossed off the train there would be plenty of empty seats in Coach IMHO.