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For those of you who have done long-disance trips in the US with a connection, is a long connection a welcome break or a boring waste of time? Although there are exceptions (and occasional bad individual experiences) most people are relatively comfortable booking a domestic airline connection...

In playing with a lot of schedules I run into the possibility of some pretty long daytime trips on existing or future routes. So my question...is that actually a desirable thing? Or would passengers prefer an overnight journey to a 16-18 hour "daytime" trip? For example a "daytime" Capitol...

I seem to recall hearing someplace that several coaches from the Midwest were sent out west for use. Anybody have further information, including if this is either temporary or to be relieved as the new SIemens equipment arrives? The Hiawatha has been reduced from 6 coaches to 4 since COVID...

In the past several weeks I've noticed a fair number of trains on state-sponsored routes out of Chicago showing estimated loads of 70%-90% or occasionally selling out. Some of these are at peak weekday times but often they are on weekends such as Saturday morning trains to Chicago. I've seen...

Are there any standards for what's a reasonable turn time at the end of a line, how often/how long dwell times are appropriate? I found a few (much) older threads with a little information but they were mostly about specific LD turns. I'd guess the longer the trip the more delay recovery you...