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It was going five miles per hour. Nobody was hurt. http://komonews.com/news/local/nobody-injured-when-amtrak-train-derails-in-tukwila

It looks like it came out yesterday, but I didn't notice it until this afternoon. I haven't thoroughly wrung it out yet, but it looks pretty good, and definitely better than Amtrak.com's mobile web page. This link will take you to the iTunes preview page for the app, which describes it in more...

King Street Station in Seattle will be holding an open house on Sunday, May 2, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., to celebrate the 104th anniversary of the construction of the station, and to give an update on the station's reconstruction. Further details can be found here.

Here is an Associated Press story about the Iron Goat Trail in Washington's Cascade Mountains, which follows the old Great Northern route to the old Stevens Pass Tunnel. The story highlights the fact that the trail passes the site of the 1910 Wellington disaster, in which 96 people died when an...

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The new menus for summer are up on the Amtrak web site. It looks like the Empire Builder is the only train that will still have a grilled steak, a "Butcher’s Choice Cut Steak." All the others get the new braised flat iron steak in bordelaise sauce. I see that the Empire Builder also has...