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From the Heartland Flyer site, Apparently the special Eagle for the OU/Texas football game was stopped not long after San Antonio to let a UP freight run ahead which as you might have guessed had the crew die. Sounded like they never did have enough hours to make it to their crew change. The...

We drove the 2.5 hrs to OKC Friday and spent the night in OKC as there were no more rooms available in Guthrie for 5 of us. So we woke up at 5am and drove to the Oklahoma Railway Museum (ORM) where we rode a school bus driven by ORM (Steve Davis) to Guthrie to catch the train. We had about 17...

Just got off the train and back to our room. Pretty good turn out for a rainy Saturday morning. A locol OKC TV station did a news (weather) segment from on-board the train last night with a helicopter flying overhead for night aerial shots of the train on the way to GUT. Hopefully this is a...

I need to know the milage of the Desert Wind from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. I've looked all over the internet and cannot find it. If someone has an old timetable and can tell me, I would appreciate it. Thanks.

I have to do a ficticious business plan for a college class I am taking. For fun and to make it interesting to me, I decided to start up a small commuter line. Amtrak and I sure AOE pay freight railroads a fee for traveling on their rails. I need a ballpark figure on what these fees are. I'm...

I forgot to mention seeing the new Reno trench in my CZ trip report and I haven't heard mention of it here before, so for those who don't know, Reno is building a trench through the city to elimate all the grade crossings in town. I think it was something like 2 miles long and would be double...

This part starts before the trip as we decided to go to the ferry building station and upgrade to two roomettes. Traveling on Cal-train the day of our baseball game was interesting as it was just after the London bombings. Security was extremely high and several cops and explosive dogs...

After my wife's family reunion, we (five of us) took the CZ to San Francisco to watch a Giants game and come back for the drive home to Oklahoma. Train 5 was about an hour late into SLC on the 5th. While there I got to see the new intermodal terminal next door nearing completion. Not bad, but...

In the tail end of my vacation and after the bombings in London, Cal-train had cops everywhere with dogs sniffing for explosives. I upgraded to a sleeper at the ferry building in SF and they looked really close at my credentials. Hopefully all goes well on the CZ later today.

We just got a phone call from Amtrak to inform us of schedule changes on the CZ for our trip leaving SLC on 5 JUL to SFP and returning 8 JUL. We now arrive in EMY at 4:49pm (was 5:09) and get on the bus at 5pm arrrive at SFP at 6:10 (was 6:35). On the way back we leave SFP 20 min earlier at...

I have been messing around with the list of Greyhound station closures (all 264 or so of them) in my idle time at work. Kind of a unscientific study that only my warped mind could come up with. So here is the first piece that I have come up with. There are 25 stations Amtrak has where...

My wife is watching TV and said gas will jump 15 cents a gallon tomorrow. It looks like gas is going to go through the roof. This could make people think twice about hopping in that SUV and sitting in traffic idling. People might consider the train as a viable option now. Gas has always been...

I just read an MSNBC article about Greyhound cutting service to 150 cities. Among those are Dallas Amtrak and Houston Amtrak. I know that Amtrak routes you through Houston on Greyhound if you are going from the SL to say Dallas or FTW or in my case OKC. here is the link:MSNBC

Good news. The state of Oklahoma apparently has a budget surplus of 105 million bucks. Gov. Henry (D) has pledged to use the money for roads, bridges, and the Heartland Flyer. Here is part of what he said about it: “I think the Heartland Flyer is a great asset to Oklahoma, and we can’t turn...

This is way late as we travel in June, but we moved to a new house back then and I have not been online. I had car numbers and all that, but who know where they are at now. I will give a brief synopsis as I think you'll find this interesting. We left OKC as a severe thunderstorm hit the city...

There is a report in my Heartland Flyer newsgroup that diner crews will now be turned at Austin instead of FTW allowing a dinner south of FTW and lunch before FTW going north beginning June 1. I have not confirmed it, but if true, a thank you to the Texas and Oklahoma rail groups who have...

I will be traveling on the Texas Eagle this summer for the first time and also in a sleeper for the first time. I noticed on the schedule that there is cold meal service between Fort Worth, TX and San Antonio, TX. My question is: why don't they have hot meal service on this portion of the...