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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 &...

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...

A disgruntled Amtrak passenger waiting for the Late Shore claims he has a bomb at the Pittsfield Station Pittsfield Bomb Threat

Turboliner Story Amtrak took these units out of service for most of the summer due to insuffecent air conditioning systems, now it looks like it is unknown if they will EVER be back. Super Steel even offered to correct the problem but Amtrak declined. This whole turbo deal was crap from the...

I was curious to see what the interior of the original Metroliner MU cars looked like, and how they compared to the Amfleet cars, but I havent had much luck finding a picture of their original interiors under either Penn Central or Amtrak. I did suceed in finding a photo of one which had been...

For years (since 1996 or so) Ive been making up my own versions of Amtrak schedules which are much more condensed then the actual ones for operation on my HO scale layout, so I can imagine that the train does its entire routing (of course I always ran the Lake Shore Limited most often). I used...

I havent been around for a while because things have been pretty busy around here, I have been checking the posts on this board every now and then to keep my self semi up to date. I hope everyone has been doing well. Anyways, so yesterday I took a trip along with a group of other people that...

Took a stop down at the Pittsfield Amshack today, Amtrak 448 came in not to bad today about a half an hour down, not bad considering yesterday it was well over eight hours late. Consist: P42 69 P42 55 Heritage Baggage in Phase IVb scheme, no red "Safety Stripe" on bottom Viewliner - Shore...

Well after seeing the train today I have gotten pumped about trains again, things have been busy lately and my railroad hobby has been pushed aside. But Im gettin back into it, and hope to take a trip this summer by train. Last year my hopes didnt come true. But things look better this year...

We went down to check out Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield today and decided to take a spin by the Amtrak station to see how the new station is comming along, and it happened to be just about time for train 449 to come in, and there was a decent size crowd waiting at the Amshack. We...

I just got this information off of the Trainorders.com website from a post made by Gene Poon on the damage estimates on the cars and locomotive that were in this past Tuesday's wreck of the City. I thought some of you might find this information intresting. Engine 82: $50,000 Baggage 1223...

On my layout, the very cold winter and terrible time keeping of the Lake Shore Limited both West and Eastbound have made a Boston - Albany Shuttle train go in effect replacing the Thru Cars. Timekeeping on the line has been great for the last few weeks and passengers love that aspect, but they...

I found on Ebay today two different auctions for Athearns new HO CF7 locomotives painted up for Amtrak in two different schemes. One had the all silver work train paint and one in an odd Phase III paint job. Athearn does a great job in accuracy (or did) on most of its products over the years...

I see the new Sliver Series Bachmann Amfleets listed on Walther's site with expected delivery this summer. The Acela Regional versions intrest me, I would like to see how bachmann does these cars. They seem very pricey, so they better be MUCH better then the original Bachmann Amfleets. Though...

Hey I have a question on an Amclub car, Im decaling up one up and I was wondering which side the club side is, the side with the 4 windows or the side with 3 windows? And what is the configuration on average, half club half dinette? Or are their full clubs out there?

Big problems for the Lake Shore Limited (and Capitol Limited) yesterday and today. There was a NS freight derailment near Waterloo which delayed yesterday's inbound 49/449 for about 9 hours. This had a ripple effect, the westbound arrived so late that the consist for that nights eastbound was...

Comming back from a trip to Pittsfield Lawn and Tractor to pick up some items for my snowmobile, I decided to take a ride up to see the progress of the new station, I thought to myself maybe 449 will be comming in because it was around train time (3:39, the train was due at 3:29) What do ya...

I want to make my trains on the corridot on MTS look more realistic, and right now all I have on there are the 2 kinds of "stock" Amfleet cars on there, the Acela Regional painted cars and the phase III "Metroliner" cars. One thing that would make it look much better would be cars of the Phase...

I noticed in the new timetable that on Sundays the westbound Cardinal our of NYP runs on the same schedule as 155 (which is a little earlier and makes local stops) to WAS. Is the Cardinal gonna have some local Amfleet I coaches tacked on the rear for this part of the journey for local...

I recieved my new System Timetable yesterday in the mail and Im pretty much impressed by it. I like how it tells you things like which host railroad the train is being operated over each portion of the journey and the Chicago quick reference table, thats handy for realistic model railroad...