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The rumor mills in Montana are buzzing overtime with a story to this effect today. Supposedly there is to be a public announcement "soon." In the meantime, the closest we have to official confirmation is a fuzzy screenshot of an email which apparently went to MRL employees today. It is no...

A question came up in the Empire Builder wreck thread (Joplin MT, 25 September 2021) as to whether rural fire departments responding to a wreck were likely to have any experience with Amtrak equipment. I wanted to post an affirmative answer, at least for rural western Montana, in a place that...

Simple question from the Westerner who hasn't been to the east coast by rail in a very long time: Is there such a thing as a guaranteed connection between the Downeaster and the LSL or a Northeast Regional? If so, how much longer than an hour is required, given the need for the ~2 mile transfer...

I don't know how many Amtrak Unlimited forum members are crossword puzzle solvers... but for those of you who are, here is a tribute to ten trains that disappeared on Amtrak Day in 1971.

Kind of a weird and specific question here, but one I've been curious about for decades, and never stumbled across an answer to. Amtrak's tendency has been to use pairs of consecutive numbers for each route. Normal enough, most railroads did. But the western long-distance routes use...

This question managed to not come up for 45 years... but, at least in some versions of the accounting (and this ISNT a thread about what way to do the accounting) the Virginia service more than covers its own costs. If that happens - does the "subsidy" become $0 and Amtrak pockets the profit...

Summing up briefly: I already have a sleeper booked from Whitefish to Seattle. Obviously I'm only using 1 of the 2 beds. A friend is considering riding from Spokane to Seattle on the same train. I know that there is no additional charge for having a second person in my room -- the 2nd person...

Was looking at a trip to Seattle on the Builder in November. Was a little startled to see roomettes from Whitefish to Seattle sold out a month in advance during the offseason - checked AmSnag, and after submitting a few queries, was even more startled to see no roomettes available on 7 for...

I occasionally have to fly to the DC area for work conferences. I have one such coming up next month in College Park, MD. In the past I've always flown into National (wonderfully easy access to the Metro) or Dulles (just hopeless, not much choice but uber or taxi at least part way into town.)...

Since we've had several recent threads about the state of things in 1971... thought I'd open one more little trivia thread. Introducing a national timetable meant Amtrak brought in their own nationwide train numbering system - and for almost all the trains that have run continuously since 1971...

Is there any repository comparable to www.timetables.org for VIA timetables, especially from the early years? My own collection doesn't go back before 1990, and streamlinermemories.info has one from 1988... but the ones I'd be most interested in seeing are the ones before the first big round of...

Every November I have a work conference which rotates among Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, and my employer has been willing to buy me a sleeper berth on the Empire Builder instead of making me fly. (As long as the sleeper is available at the low-bucket price of ~$200 each way it's often the...