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Good news, 154 is back in service with a brand new nose!! Shes out on the system somewhere doing her duty.

Most of it was torn down. It used to be HUGE since Pittsfield was a major junction of three lines as well as a fairly major city. But Urban Renewal of the 60s and 70s took care of it pretty good. One part of it is left right next to the Amshack, the Union Station building its called. It has...

It seems to me about time that Pittsfield did gain something more of a station. The prior Amtrak Station, the current CSX offices on East Street, wasnt much compared to the Magnificent Union Station but even that was more then an Amshack, this a bit more enviting. Ridership levels vary...

Yes sir! The bus shelter Amshack is no longer the Pittsfield, MA train station. Its about time too, this "Intermodal Center" has been years in the making!

Finally the BRTA's (Berkshire Regional Transit Authority) new intermodal transportation center opened for business with no fanfare Monday. I havent heard anything about it in a while so it was a suprise to me when I saw it in the Berkshire Eagle newspapaper. They had a picture of the Barnam &...

Not Viewliner equipment, Amfleet equipment. The only Viewliner equipment are the 50 sleepers (and 3 prototypes, including a Diner, which are out of service). No Regional train has Viewliners on it normally. Usually all trains, including Amfleet equiped regionals, have at least one car...

The AEM-7 is a great unit from what I hear aside from the occasional fire (due to overuse not enough maintence most likely). They are intresting looking units, Ive seen many in pictures and never one in person. ( I hope to someday though, I did get to see an Acela Express this summer!).

Meteor - Meatball, similar enough I guess . . . either that or they call it that because it some times uses "Swedish Meatball" locomotives sometimes between New York and Washington (AEM-7s) :D

Conrail only owned it for a very short time, I think it was a matter of days back in April 1976 before convaying it over to Amtrak

The report on Trainorders said that the employee heard a loud explosion before the fire began, so maybe an electrical cabinet or something blew up.

Im pretty sure there is no lounge service ALB-NYP, there will be come November 1st though when the whole "Boston Shuttle" goes in effect. I do recall reading a trip report somewhere that the Diner served beverages and a few snacks to passengers between New York and Albany, maybe Im just...

Ahh yes the Dining car will be still on the train but it will shut service down before Albany and not open it back up the rest of the way to New York. Its been this way for a few years now. Cost cutting measure . . . I dont even think they serve lunch at all which seems foolish to me.

Well I know that some eastern bound Amtrak trains used Central Station for a short time before the station was closed down in March of 1972.

Are you serious that the system is in a power shortage? Wow, I never would have thought!

I have noticed that 703 has been at Beech Grove since April (thanks to Geoofs site) but I dont see anything explaining why. Im guessing it was damaged in some kind of large mechanical failure, or possibly a minor derailment or something along those lines. Its just suprising that with such a...

So according to him I guess every train that gets put into emergency derails . . . What a moron, a true moron. He shoulda been killed in the wreck!

Well, there are probably quite a few pieces of repairable equipment there but remember that alot of the cars in Beech Grove are damaged beyond repair. A substantial number of Superliners were involved in very serious incidents and never can be used again because they are either way beyond...

Amtrak has had a great website threw the years Ive always thought, it was always easy to use. Im sure the new one will be great Too bad the same cant be said for Athearn's (model trains) new website, that site is horrible. You cant find anything easily.

Yeah, I was just kidding about the alternate transportation, because its Amtraks duty pretty much to get ya threw to the destination (though there are some cases where they dont do so). Maybe the train was annuled somewhere along the line very late and the busses didnt arrive yet into...

I just looked at the Arival Status display for Sundays eastbound, it was a service disruption message for the train! I thought I remember reading on another fourm that the first train to pass through the area was 49(5) since the line reopened at 9PM on Sunday. Seems to me though at like efin...