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    Can Union Pacific bring back their own passenger trains?

    OK - we've heard about the challenges in interesting any of the freight railroads in running a high quality passenger train - and we know how Amtrak in recent years has seemed to favor the northeast corridor and state-supported routes over the long distance service, but what about raising this...
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    Cities without Amtrak service

    Yes, I should have specified I was excluding Thruway bus connections and I was focusing on the contiguous 48 states. And from the above comments I see I missed at least seven metro areas that could have been in the top ten. Maybe a top twenty list would now be interesting.
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    Cities without Amtrak service

    I thought I would try to identify the 10 largest cities, ranked by metro population, that do not now have Amtrak service. Am I skipping over any? 1. Phoenix 4.575 million 2. Las Vegas 2.115 million 3. Nashville 2.072 million 4. Columbus 2.020 million 5. Louisville 1.396 million 6...
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    Can Union Pacific bring back their own passenger trains?

    Yes, I have sometimes wondered if there would be price point that would make it profitable for BNSF to run an up to date version of the Santa Fe Super Chief and what that price point might be.
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    Winter Storm 2024 cancellations

    Thanks for your detailed comments, Lordsigna. I did find this Santa Fe ad. 1,082 × 1,600
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    Winter Storm 2024 cancellations

    This may have been addressed before but back in the day of the golden age of private rail passenger travel - Santa Fe, Great Northern, Chicago Burlington & Quincy, New York Central, Missouri Pacific, Rock Island, etc., did weather similar to what we're having now result in cancellations in most...
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    E and F unit locomotives today

    Since many of us first became aware of trains in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s when most trains were using E and F unit locomotives, we obviously thought that was just how streamlined trains were supposed to look. My, perhaps somewhat ignorant, question is why isn't it possible for locomotive...
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    Carolinian Business Class question

    My daughter has booked a business class seat on Carolinian #80 - 16F - and is wondering if that might be a table seat. I'm not familiar with the configuration of business class on that train and wasn't sure if it was a dedicated car or not, and I haven't traveled in coach cars for a long time...
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    Quad cities train in news

    Would anyone here know something about the history of passenger train service in the Quad Cities. Did each of the communities - Davenport, Bettendorf, Moline, East Moline, and Rock Island has their own depots - or was there one so-called union station that served the region? Would the same...
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    Remembering the Golden Age of Airline Food

    Yes, airline travel was a real premiere travel experience at one time, even into the seventies perhaps, maybe even eighties. Anyway, I'm remembering in the early 1960s when most all domestic commercial flights served three-course meals. And they were served by young and attractive and very...
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    Amtrak delays

    Just noticed this video that might be of interest. (I hope it's not hidden behind a paywall.) https://www.wsj.com/video/series/wsj-explains/why-amtrak-service-is-slow-in-most-of-the-us/298231BC-AF68-4C68-9828-5C8C590A269C?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1
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    Gallup, New Mexico station closed

    On the Great American Stations website I think it said that baggage service was offered at Gallup. Does that mean that a ticket agent was employed by Amtrak and on duty there (before the station was closed)?
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    Lockheed L-1049 Constellation and other propeller planes of mid-20th century

    I'm sure my first commercial airline flight, in 1963, was aboard a Constellation - anyway it was a TWA flight from Wichita to Denver and I don't remember any discomfort from the coach seats. Would anyone know how the dimensions of those seats - and the spacing between rows - would compare to...
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    Amtrak delays

    Anyone know why there is a delay on Amtrak Coast Starlight #14 near Chiloquin, Oreogon, today?
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    Texas HSR

    First of all with passenger rail I will admit to a strong bias in favor of overnight conventional long distance trains with full dining cars. And of course these trains can also serve short distance passengers wanting to travel between any city pairs along the route. So, what I'm wondering, if...
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    Nice Article on the Coast Starlight

    As someone above suggested could the article simply be copies and pasted into this discussion? My daughter and her husband will be including the Coast Starlight on an Amtrak trip and I think the article would interest them. With me living in Kansas and they living in Missouri I'm sure the...
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    New Traditional Dining Menu

    Does anyone remember some great devils food cake desserts? I don't know when they disappeared - I think I'm remembering some really declious, maybe even three-layer chocolate or devilss food cake desserts from 2000 to 2006 or so. And I did email some address at Amtrak a few years ago to ask if...
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    Rude Amtrak employees

    Regarding Amtrak employees with less-than-desired customer service skills, here are some comments from earlier this month that I came across on another online forum that might be of interest: . . . . as we leave New Mexico this evening I have to say how disappointed I am in this trip. We...
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    Rude Amtrak employees

    I've wondered the same thing that The Crescent (above) was wondering. In my experiences the rude Amtrak employees I'm remembering were in the dining cars. And I don't travel that often - maybe 15 trips in the last 20 years. Maybe on a third of those trips I've encountered a waiter who, at...
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