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  1. zoltan

    New Orleans to Atlanta on the Crescent

    Having encountered a lot of spineless conductors, I can't help but love reading about things like this.
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    Coach Seating

    I've never bought a single sleeper in my life, but I can be out like a light on a coach seat. I've done it quite a lot.
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    Tram-Trains in the US?

    Two thoughts from Baltimore: - The Baltimore light rail branches into routes individually running every 30 minutes, which is also the frequency of Maryland's commuter rail lines at peak times. - Baltimore's LRVs carry more passengers in four-car sets than the commuter rail trains carry in...
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    Tram-Trains in the US?

    They don't; what I wonder about is whether other authorities responsible for assessing the roadworthiness of vehicles would have a problem with FRA-compliant equipment.
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    Tram-Trains in the US?

    Tram-Trains are a German concept that run as streetcars or light rail at times, and on standard railroad tracks at others, that is being considered in quite a few European cities. They are largely used to permit commuter rail to penetrate the centres of cities. An informative post about the...
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    Ex-metra gallery cars on MARC

    Thanks! I do hope there might be a train less horribly early than that one.
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    Ex-metra gallery cars on MARC

    I am about to finish a two-month trip in the US, and I want to stalk out some of MARC's ex-Metra gallery cars before I leave. So, does anyone know what morning train(s) on the MARC Brunswick line the gallery cars are used on?
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    A question I feel is often asked: Luggage in Chicago

    They have automated lockers even in spite of the general fear of unattended baggage?
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    A question I feel is often asked: Luggage in Chicago

    ...so feel free to point me to the right place rather than having a new discussion; I couldn't find it through a search. I am contemplating whether to take a long way round on the way from Indianapolis to Detroit, via Chicago rather than greyhounds via Dayton, OH, so as to have time in Chicago...
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    Cost To Haul A Private Car

    And it amuses me - particularly now you've said that - that back-and-beyond little city Huntington, WV is one of the 40 or so!
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    Passenger comfort

    My last encounter with an ex-metroliner business class car was, funnily enough, one placed as the front car of the Adirondack consist, acting as coach class. In that context, I greatly appreciated the comfort and legroom... :)
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    BUDD RDCs

    How many of these things are still around? I guess, as they were available for Texas, that there must be some quantity stored in one place or another.
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    The Queen goes commuter rail

    I like how she makes a lot less fuss of traveling on scheduled trains than certain vice presidents do.
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    Steaks cooked to order are back

    The implicit assumption in that principle is that you're considering a route on which rail demand already exists, but at a low frequency, or a place where a significant bus and air market already exists, on the basis that you wouldn't even be thinking about putting trains anywhere else.
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    Steaks cooked to order are back

    So that's how they do coach fares on the Crescent now? It's encouraging that the old principle still seems to stand - put on a train at a place or time there was no train before, and generally people will start using that train.
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