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Well, the way things are going, it looks like somebody forgot to tack on a rear observation car. I'm on the Westbound Zephyr headed to Sacramento with CHamilton, and the sleeping cars are at the rear of the train. It seems as if the entire consist is backwards (I'm in car 531, and 530 is behind...

Now, I realize that this service was shuttered in 2012, but I remember that while it operated it had a /gleaming/ website. Some of the best passenger train marketing I've seen in the modern era of American railroading. Obviously, now, none of it is accessible online, but if I remember correctly...

... One of the best arguments for 'low speed' trains being that the Liesure market has always been significantly larger than the business market for travel. Oh sure, business people may be the best customers to have, given their reimbursed travel budgets and relative inelastic demand for travel...

And to think the incredible levels of service function with an operational profit! I was once on a Belgian train bypassing France during a nasty strike, and was seated next to an older Indian gentleman. He was shocked that the European rail network functioned in such a way- and that he couldn't...

Incredible! The city of Tacoma yet again making a permanent decision to fix a temporary problem. If they don't want the potential value capture opportunities the line represents, I imagine private interests in the fashion of Iowa Pacific will happily relieve them of the burden.