VentureForth

Thank you to everyone who responded - this is hugely helpful information. After doing a little math, it seems a rail pass is worth it...

Brightline is banking that with trains slam full, folks who would pass on the train over that will cost them less revenue than the wrap...

Makes you wonder which pays more? Ad revenue or passenger revenue? Hey empty trains make cool moving billboards.

It's really dissapointing that Brightline doesn't understand that people want to look out the windows. You can wrap trains all you want...

Indeed, I have been on a morning Hikari from Osaka to Hiroshima, crammed like sardines. Was a bit surprised. Never made it into the...

Japanese trains are usually very precisely on time. In our one trip to Japan, in 2005, we had at one point an 8 minute connection...

One of our Members, VentureForth, lived in Japan and is very familiar with the Rail systems. I suggest that you PM him, he's very...

Having the Suica on iPhone was awesome when I went in 2018, it meant I could put money on the (virtual) card using the built-in Wallet...

Having given this a bit more thought: (1) The "projections" for Q4 '23 are already demonstrably off. With 1/3 of the quarter in...

OK. The surcharge to ride Nozomi with the new JR Rail Pass prices is an additional ¥4,950 ($33 if this awesome exchange rate holds)...

I've been looking at trying to do that - probably BL to FLL then fly back to MCO. If everything is on time, you should be OK, but it's...

Can they/Are they planning to phase these in - one at a time, mid-day trains first, slowly increasing capacity rather than all at once...

That would be OK if only they would refrain from actually selling them as window seats. This is misleading marketing. A seat with no...

Hey there. Got your IM. Thanks for reaching out. I just got this but I'll be traveling tomorrow so may have more time to work this out...

I'd be happy to see some sort of Train Status page. IIRC, they used to in the WPB - MIA days. Honestly love Tri-Rail's live GPS...