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Being a ham with a technician's license and thus a handheld with only the two bands, do Amtrak's frequencies fall into 2 meter or 70cm?

I still use mine for my original purpose. When someone quotes a series of replies, I want to be able to read all the replies. Gives me more complete context.

TANSTAAFL Someone has to pay. And access has never been free. Right now, my free-to-me is paid by advertising. (Yes, this makes me a product.) Rarely I convert free to paid. X-Twitter wasn't very high up on the list of "willing to pay for" services and is rapidly sliding down. My issue with Mr...

Unfortunately, freight has more often won disputes with Amtrak over right-of-way and on time issues. The federal agency that settles disputes between Amtrak and freight (STB?) needs to grow a pair and enforce the requirements of the federal Act that created Amtrak. A(n unintended?) consequence...

Since many Amtrak stations are open platforms, with or without shelter, there is no current method preventing anyone from carrying onto a train anything that can fit in luggage. Some years back, some bright person* decided my local Amtrak station building needed to have TSA personnel...

This was years before that policy was fully implemented. Now, I'd change it via my phone at the earliest point I knew we weren't going to make it.

Greensboro to Tampa crazy options. Since there aren't any discounts for booking multiple trains, I have been known to book each piece separately. Some years back, I was travelling Los Angeles via Albuquerque to grab friends as we went thru, ultimately to Raleigh. Because the Chi to DC piece...

I love ny phone. It's my library, my calendar, my prosthetic memory. But IF my phone cooperates and scans the QR code correctly or at all, IF my fat fingers cooperate in poking the right places on the screen, IF my senior eyeballs can read the font size or IF increasing the font size doesn't...

Not selling seats near an emergency exit only means a person of questionable stability has to walk a little farther to do something stupid and/or damaging. I'm not one of those "you can't stop them so why bother" people. They can be stopped, or slowed down, but not selling those seats isn't how...

"Before a 'high profile' person can ....call attention... Amtrak has to provide..." "Too many regions and towns are underserved by trains." It's a bit of a catch-22: to expand there must be interest; to have interest there must be expansion. Having those existing high profile Amtrak riders let...

A high profile person calls attention to whatever they espouse because they are high profile. Because "Hey, So-and-so rides Amtrak. Why don't we try it?" is an effective ad for train travel. But as others on this thread have pointed out, high profile people who ride Amtrak don't advertise it...

You see people do dumb sh...stuff like that and think, you're going to regret that behavior some day. I was delighted to see "some day" happen right in front of me, with no severe damage or fatal consequences.

If Nicole Kidman wore no makeup, slightly scruffy clothes, and talked with her native accent, she'd easily fall into the "if she..., she'd look just like Nicole Kidman." Nicole Kidman the actress talks with an upscale Brit or American accent. Nicole Kidman herself has a delightful Aussie accent...

It depends on how tall you are.

In the "tracks don't mean trains...until they do" category, I was sitting at an intersection waiting for the lights. There was space between the lines marking the intersection and the tracks for one car, then the single track. I was behind the tracks, leaving them empty. Some *bleep* in a small...

An opinion: Part of the low profile by high profile people taking the train is not getting badgered by fans, altho I would expect higher profile people to be in rooms or biz class. If they don't know you're on the train, you don't have to fend off paparazzi at the station. Imagine some Big...

Wow. Just...wow. I envy you for that.

I go for "nibblements" that pack in individual zip bags to get stuffed in odd corners of my carryon. Cut up apples, carrots, celery, turkey pepperoni, cheeses like cheddar, gouda, and/or muenster, shell-less pistachios, almonds, bagels cut in bite sized pieces, various flavors of Cheerios...

Exit from coach. Should a train attendant redirect you, tell them you're trying to avoid interrogation, er, questions by a nosy aunt. Because nosy people don't need a reason to be nosy. They just are. EDIT: if you can set it up ahead of time, sit in coach the last half hour of your trip. Then...

"Update" depends on what the site creator was trying to accomplish. If it was to digitize material not available otherwise, it's as up to date as it needs to be*. Once the timetables started coming out in PDF, there was no point in scanning print. Once another railfan provided an archive of the...