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The Stanford Curve

Grey carpeted halls and squared off bathrooms ironically indicate the newer Superliner IIs. The older Superliner Is got a refurbishment...

As someone who has food allergies, I strongly disagree with you. By asking servers in restaurants and reviewing ingredient lists on...

General Powell is an American to be appreciated for his service and to be pitied because of how he was duped to believe that Saddam had...

The thing is a lot of the money, including a TIGER grant covering the trackage across Kansas and into Colorado, was already in place...

I stand corrected. Yeah, eastbound it is old WP from Weso to SLC, westbound, it is old WP from SLC to Alazon.

Here's a close-up from a 1946 schedule. The East line was covered by an all-stops local between Gerber and Sacramento. An aside: in...

Today was when it supposedly went into effect. Yet, today's 14 departed at 10:10 AM out of LAX and seemed to follow the now old...

Finally, that stretch between Haggin and Binney Jct and the former WP paired track between Alazon (outside Winnemucca) and Weso (outside...

The original, original route was to go north from Davis up the West Valley line through Woodland and Williams and miss Sacramento...

Actually, even the cheapest of duct tape is fine if you remove it when you are through, one or two days isn't going to hurt anything...

Okay, I just had a weird exchange with someone on the Facebook Amtrak Empire Builder page. Someone posted a complaint that she had been...

Most likely because it needed a full Dinette, since that was the only food service car, and even Sleeper passengers had to be fed in it...

The NY section needs a cafe or at least provide some cafe service items from the diner between New York and Albany like they do on the...

Congratulations for toughing it out for 41 years since 1980, then.🏆