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For a limited time FNBO is offering 40K AGR points when you sign up for the Preferred Mastercard, up from 20K points previously. To get the full 40K points you must spend $2K in the first 3 months. If points can be redeemed for approx. $0.027 each then the 40K points are worth $1,080, less...

Keith Creel, the CEO of CPKC (Candian Pacific Kansas City), was touting his railroad's daily flagship Chicago-Mexico trains. As reported by Trains Magazine Newswire Creel said "We’re beating what we advertised, and that train is 95%, 96% on time. I look at it every day, every morning. If it...

Can you all educate me on boarding heights? What is the boarding height of a Superliner, Amfleet/Horizon, Viewliner, Acela, Venture? Are platforms either raised (what height) or ground level, or are there additional platform heights beyond those two? My experience with Superliners is that...

In response to my correspondence to Amtrak urging them to reinstate timetables, I received an email today from the "Amtrak Center of Excellence" stating that "PDF timetables will return to the website by September of this year." I don't know why it will take them 3 months to do this, but I...

At the current trajectory, the Superliners will wear out with no replacement on the horizon and the end of the LD trains in the west will be a fait accompli. Insert your boiling-the-frog analogy here as we slowly run these cars into the ground. I’m trying to triangulate on how much it would...

Yield management (e.g. fare buckets) makes sense as a way to maximize revenue when you are dealing with limited capacity. However it makes little sense if you have unused capacity. In Amtrak’s case, once you have deployed every car that you have available, the fare bucket system allow you to...

How do Amtrak trains running diesel electrics (e.g. P42 Genesis) maintain a more-or-less constant 79mph (or whatever the track speed is)? Is there some form of electronic cruise control? It seems that the engineer constantly moving throttle notches to hold a steady speed would not be nearly...

Where are the crew change and service locations for the SW Chief? Who constitutes "crew", and what is done at service locations?