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I want to have a lesson for my Earth/Environmental classes that looks at transit and the carbon footprint of the choices we make. I was thinking of having the students plan a trip within the US and see what can be done without a personal automobile. As much as I would like to stay in the...

Is there any easy reference to find the original railroads that current Amtrak routes use? Should I just ask here. Crescent uses the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line from Atlanta to Charlotte then the NCRR from Charlotte to Greensboro and north of Greensboro to Danville the Piedmont Railroad was...

What is the max number of future trips can be posted on the Amtrak phone app? I have 11 segments on my phone at present, which is an all-time personal high. I am sure that is small potatoes compared to some, but I am excited. If someone took Amtrak everyday for a job that could be 600 or...

I recently compiled the following to use as I am NC Train Hosting. Generally most everyone is going to know their options when arriving at the Amtrak station for deboarding. But I have this reference now and sometimes the conversation is for others that might ride Amtrak and not for the people...

I am going through old Trains magazines starting with issue 1 that is dated November 1940. I am clearly not reading every word but I am skimming the issues in PDF format and finding interesting facts and figures and such. I spend about 10 minutes on each issue. March 1941 has a great article...

Just south of the Lynchburg station there is either a short tunnel or the tracks go through an underpass with a car road on top. Which is it? Tunnel or underpass.

My wife picked up the CC with the 30,000 points last fall. We could not get into her AGR account to check points so I called in November and realized the email tied to the AGR was from 20+ years ago which has not been used in about that long of a time. I thought we had this taken care on in...

I assume Amtrak used Southern equipment, including the SR livery when Amtrak took over the Crescent in 1979. What was the timeline for painting into Amtrak livery with the old equipment or was it just never repainted? What was the timeline of moving from one set of equipment to another...

I was in a discussion about the Asheville-Salisbury route and the other person seems to think anything not going directly to Charlotte is a waste of money and they don't mean heading on to Charlotte after Salisbury but using the CSX line through Shelby or the L and O through Mooresville or some...

I took the September Performance Report (which should be YTD and therefore be FY 2023 and converted to a spreadsheet. I used LibreOffice Calc for this as it was the only spreadsheet that could cut and paste with a bit of ease the table on Route Level Performance. So I have two links, a...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amtrak-tries-to-take-union-station-washington-eminent-domain-9b8b73d7 It might be behind a paywall but it worked for me. Not really surprised about their take on this situation.

What is the normal consist for the Carolinian? No baggage car today 24 Nov 2023 on 80. Not sure if they added a coach but I counted 1 engine, 5 coach, a cafe and 1 business class. I thought there might be an extra coach for the holiday travels but that would seem to make a baggage car even...

We signed my wife up for the Amtrak paid CC to get those sweet, sweet AGR points now that it is 30,000 points. I was checking on the AGR website and her AGR number there is something I have never seen before so now I need to check on the CC website and make sure they are the same and if not...

I started this process 5 years ago and after a pandemic and a training session scheduled for just a week or two after everything closed up in 2020 I was finally trained in June. After a bit more waiting my uniform arrived today. For the male volunteers we receive a ball cap, and vest with the...

Wife and I are taking 79 back from Richmond to Greensboro. I received a text message about the train arriving 30 minutes late. I was tracking the train but it was on time to DC, so I was a bit surprised but I assume the engine change was slow. Next thing I know it is on time but I did not get...

https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/goodbye-unfriendly-skies-why-i-prefer-train-travel-to-planes Not the last place I expected to see an article about train travel but also certainly not the first place I expected to see an article on train travel either.

I like how the NC DOT has a webpage that lists every train stop at each station in each direction for the entire day. For a station such as NYP or WAS that would be a long list but for most places a list such as what Greensboro has is very manageable and helps with planning for someone new to...

Seems the powers that be want to get rid of them. https://www.rmt.org.uk/campaigns/rail/save-ticket-offices/ It seems the US and GB like to share the worst of each other's policies and never the best. Hopefully the RMT stops this and the idea does not spread.

https://media.amtrak.com/2023/07/statement-from-amtrak-ceo-stephen-gardner/

Watching a few minutes of the news and there is a helicopter shot looking down on a particular courthouse in Miami. Looks like a passenger train stop just in view. Is this a Brightline station?