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Tucson, Arizona has Old Pueblo Trolley, which operates the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum at the Amtrak station. The museum at the Amtrak station is more railroad oriented and the main campus located in South Tucson is more transit system and bus oriented. OPT acts as the caretaker of...

I've ridden the Crescent from end to end. Texas Eagle Chicago to Tucson. Capital Limited end to end. Sunset Tucson to New Orleans. Also done the Rocky Mountaineer from Vancouver to Banff, Vancouver Skytrain and VIA from Montreal to Ottawa. Also did Korail from Seoul to a station that I don't...

Nashville to Chattanooga would be a challenge on account of Cumberland Mountain-single track for several miles at speeds lower than 30 mph. Don't know if trains are still required to make a stop eastbound coming out of the tunnel at the summit. Back in the day, there was a runaway track just...

There's been some discussion about the possibility of a technical fault with the control system in other forums. Last report I heard was that the investigators were focusing on either signal issues or operator error. Either way, this adds to an already bad year for rail transit-five major...

There's Spaghetti Junction in Atlanta. It's a tangle of flyovers and ramps where I-285 (the Loop) meets I-75N. If you don't pay careful attention you will get royally screwed up.

Chattanooga, Tennessee has had "free" shuttle bus service in it's core downtown area for more than a decade. The shuttles are low floor electric buses and operate an 18 hour daily schedule. During peak times, the headway is as little as five minutes anywhere along the route. This service has...

Nothing will happen with the latest argument about FAA funding. The point is that General Aviation operations use only a fraction of the services that the scheduled air carriers do and are not any cause of delay for the airlines. The problem for the airlines is that they don't rationally design...

As mentioned above, don't expect on-time service on the Sunset Route in either direction. The main line is chock full of freight inbound from the ports and empties going back to reload. I've only ridden the Sunset between Tucson and New Orleans and it was something like several hours late. As a...

Actually, a major reason for flight delays is the minimum landing conditions at each airport. The minimums that airlines are bound by are generally more restrictive than those of corporate or private operators. One minor delay anywhere in the system and you get the delays. As for quality of...

We'll probably get a good update on their plans in October as the T is one of the field trips for the annual Association of Railway Museums convention. Last year's tour of Sacramento Light Rail's shop and the Siemans facility was very well organized. As to light rail as an alternative mode of...