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Sometimes the locomotives are hooked up back-to-back, sometimes they are hooked up elephant style. Is there a logical reason to hook them up one way or the other or is it just random? Thanks in advance.

Hopefully, these excerpts from a news article by Bob Johnston, published August 3, 2012, are considered "fair use": After more than a month of tardiness to. . .the Empire Builder. . . Amtrak is now officially advising passengers through August 31 that they “may experience delays of...

August 1-9 and August 16-23: ". . .The Chicago-San Antonio Texas Eagle is being rerouted on the UP’s former Chicago & Eastern Illinois trackage through Villa Grove and Pana, Ill. Buses are substituting for most Lincoln Service trains, some connecting with the Chicago-Carbondale Illini and...

I'm not sure I understand how this works. . .once I apply for and receive a Chase Sapphire (25K points) or Preferred Sapphire (50K points) card, how do these get credited to the AGR account? I can see how to set up account access via the Ultimate Rewards website. Then, I think I can combine...

See the video here: Mad Men on trains

I've noticed that most long distance train pairs e.g. 3 and 4, 5 and 6, 7 and 8, 19 and 20, 21 and 22, 50 and 51, maybe more, all seem to meet their opposite-direction partners in mid-afternoon. So you have all of these trains more or less simultaneously meeting their mates. :huh: I haven't...

Governor Doyle to make announcement tomorrow AM. Read about it here: http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/85834502.html

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/63360012.html Route was hoping to get boost from Olympics in Chicago. Madison Mayor Cieslewicz said, "We thought we had a very strong application even without the Olympics. The fundamentals of that route are very strong and the Olympics would have sealed...

This one works round trip and with any station between Schriever, LA and El Paso, TX on the Sunset's route. 1 Sunset Limited: Schriever, LA (SCH) --> Los Angeles, CA (LAX) (46h 15m) --9h 5m layover-- 4 Southwest Chief: Los Angeles, CA (LAX) --> Dodge City, KS (DDG) (27h 34m) 73h 49m total...

OK, here we go. 422 Texas Eagle: Pomona, CA --> Springfield, IL (64h 44m) --2h 15m layover-- 5522 Bus: Springfield, IL --> Galesburg, IL (2h 15m) :( --2h 13m layover-- 5 California Zephyr: Galesburg, IL --> Emeryville, CA (50h 32m) 115h 16m total train time for a 1 zone AGR!! :lol: The...

This only goes in one direction though: 3 Southwest Chief: Albuquerque, NM (ABQ) --> Los Angeles, CA (LAX) (16h 30m) --2h layover-- 14 Coast Starlight: Los Angeles, CA (LAX) --> Portland, OR (PDX) (29h 25m) --65m layover-- 28 Empire Builder: Portland, OR (PDX) --> Columbus, WI (CBS) (42h...

Money for 2 Talgo trainsets approved by Wisconsin legislature last Tuesday :) , but vote broke along party lines with all 4 Republicans voting against it. :angry: In today's Journal Sentinel: http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/52626442.html Trains to be painted Green and Gold. :D...

By longest I mean time-wise. For me, its was my Texas Eagle trip from Chicago, IL to Ontario, CA (~68 hrs. 30 min. running just a tad late). Having read some of the travelogues, I know that some of you have this beat by a mile. Who's been on the longest, either by fortune or design? Has...

From National Public Radio: The St. Louis Cardinals will board an Amtrak train in Washington and travel to Philadelphia to take on the Phillies in a three-game series that begins Friday. Cardinals General Manager John Mozeliak is interviewed for All Things Considered and offers reasons for the...

Hi, I'm new here and I thought I'd make my introduction with this loophole! Haven't seen this one in the forum before, but it's the longest 1 zone loophole I've found. And it gives those of us who can't easily board at Slidell, LA another option (plus I live ~30 min from CBS :D ) : CBS-DEN...