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Friday, March 15, 1:15pm. Today’s 90 Palmetto from Savannah to New York got within a train length of the Selma station on time, but stopped for nearly 30 minutes, while I was (am ) watching on a rail cam. Then it pulled forward a few car lengths and stopped again, still not at the platform...

Am I late to the party and everyone else here already knows this? I recall some months back reading opinions like my own that despaired when Amtrak stopped displaying the little % full diagrams on the trains you could choose when booking online. I just saw that on one page, anyway, that I...

I’m confused about toilet configurations in sleeper cabins for one where the bed covers the in-room toilet at night. It’s not clear to me at all if you just put your bed up temporarily and go. I’ve looked at fuzzy coach diagrams on viarail.ca and I can’t tell if there’s a common toilet in the...

Thank you for that explanation. Most of my Amtrak rides are on Superliners and I don’t follow the distinction btwn types of cars on the NEC, so I didn’t know some of the cars are already “interchange”. That explains so much.

I just found this thread and I just thought of this Q. Maybe asked and answered…does the switch to fixed fwd and bwd seating mean all new cars built this way from scratch or has Amtrak simply renovated its existing fleet one car at a time to do whatever it took to accomplish this configuration?

Buried in a thread about backward seating on northeast trains I see a ref to new schedules going into effect tomorrow? Monday, March 4? Brings to mind my usual dilemma: being an olde guy who still uses paper and pencil whenever I can, I always want to have a paper copy of a schedule to...

I took it all the way west from TOR to VAN in October 2019 (or was it 2020? I fergit; doesn’t matter). I had no pblms with nice fall colors north from Toronto, gorgeous mountain scenery from Jasper till dark just east of Van, and a whole lotta wheat in between. In October I was able to see...

I got lucky last time. Our front yard in Easley SC was seven seconds away from absolutely the centerline of totality and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. My only regret is I’m so totally incompetent with photography I didn’t even bother trying to get my own pics. I just downloaded one of the...

Oh well..thx

As of 2024 has Amtrak put the old parlor car back on the Coast Starlight yet? If,not, does anyone know if they plan to, or is it OOS forever?

Second thank you after so many neat responses after ,y first thank you. I’m very encouraged by how many of you also seem to love just hopping on and riding. I esp like the idea of the short ride binge trip to New England. I have never seen much of VT, NH, or ME. I haven’t done the historical...

Great answers. Everyone. Thank you. Now I guess I just need to convince “her”. But that’s another thread.

I love to ride trains. I’d ride Amtrak just for the sake of riding a train and watching the world go by out a train window. I don’t do it anywhere near as much as I’ve always wanted to, and I’m scared I’m running out of time. I’ve told my family if they bury me I want my epitaph to be “All...

Reply to West Point: I see your point about blocking CP Howell. I just saw Amtrak 19 go through fairly easily, and then a long CSX went EB for about five minutes!

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I have not seen service alerts yet but I wonder if the usual January NS track work has begun M-Th, meaning 19/20 begins/ends in Atlanta, not New Orleans. Anyone know for sure? And how long might this prevail typically?

Once again, I apologize I cannot speak from personal experience with the Central Railway Museum’s collection, but I can say that the old station in Central, SC, has been renovated and relocated a couple blocks from where it once stood when Southern Railway passenger service was active.

I have no idea at all if this will be a source of the info you seek but I’ll pass it on. The Central Railway Museum in Central, SC, at crmha.org may have some info. The small town of Central, SC, on the line btwn Charlotte and Atlanta used by the Crescent makes a big deal about its Southern...

Tourist question here. Are the Washington DC metro cars anywhere at all conducive to travelers to/from Union Station lugging a couple rollaboards? Most “subway” cars I’m familiar with elsewhere have barely any open floor space at all that would make that even remotely easy. Much less a space...

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