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Having encountered a lot of spineless conductors, I can't help but love reading about things like this.

I've never bought a single sleeper in my life, but I can be out like a light on a coach seat. I've done it quite a lot.

Two thoughts from Baltimore: - The Baltimore light rail branches into routes individually running every 30 minutes, which is also the frequency of Maryland's commuter rail lines at peak times. - Baltimore's LRVs carry more passengers in four-car sets than the commuter rail trains carry in...

They don't; what I wonder about is whether other authorities responsible for assessing the roadworthiness of vehicles would have a problem with FRA-compliant equipment.

Tram-Trains are a German concept that run as streetcars or light rail at times, and on standard railroad tracks at others, that is being considered in quite a few European cities. They are largely used to permit commuter rail to penetrate the centres of cities. An informative post about the...

Thanks! I do hope there might be a train less horribly early than that one.

I am about to finish a two-month trip in the US, and I want to stalk out some of MARC's ex-Metra gallery cars before I leave. So, does anyone know what morning train(s) on the MARC Brunswick line the gallery cars are used on?

They have automated lockers even in spite of the general fear of unattended baggage?

...so feel free to point me to the right place rather than having a new discussion; I couldn't find it through a search. I am contemplating whether to take a long way round on the way from Indianapolis to Detroit, via Chicago rather than greyhounds via Dayton, OH, so as to have time in Chicago...

And it amuses me - particularly now you've said that - that back-and-beyond little city Huntington, WV is one of the 40 or so!

My last encounter with an ex-metroliner business class car was, funnily enough, one placed as the front car of the Adirondack consist, acting as coach class. In that context, I greatly appreciated the comfort and legroom... :)

How many of these things are still around? I guess, as they were available for Texas, that there must be some quantity stored in one place or another.

I like how she makes a lot less fuss of traveling on scheduled trains than certain vice presidents do.

The implicit assumption in that principle is that you're considering a route on which rail demand already exists, but at a low frequency, or a place where a significant bus and air market already exists, on the basis that you wouldn't even be thinking about putting trains anywhere else.

So that's how they do coach fares on the Crescent now? It's encouraging that the old principle still seems to stand - put on a train at a place or time there was no train before, and generally people will start using that train.

Four loud horn blasts. The emergence of a large locomotive in front of several carriages. The rattles and track noises from said locomotive and carriages. How the hell hard can it be to notice there's a train coming? I can only assume that there are legions of motorists who simply don't take...

HAHAHA. A+.

I wouldn't be too put out - I assume you'll be paying half as much as a result!

This demonstrates EXACTLY why Amtrak shouldn't allow dogs on their trains. Because of dog owners that talk like this - that, understandably, love their dogs, and decide it could do no wrong. And any transgression, any public misconduct, is put down to the adorable personal eccentricities of the...

Why the hell did the man fly at all? It would seem to me that with comfort, reliability, departure and arrival locations, the environment and enjoyment of the journey in mind, the sensible thing to do would be to JUST buy the train ticket!