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I'm living in Basel, Switzerland About every year I have the possibility to add a few days to a business trip to the US and ride Amtrak trains. Last ride: in May Seattle-Chicago. Hope the LD trains will not be killed end of 2006!

Some really nice shots!! Hope You enjoyed Swiss trains - especially the narrow gauge (golden pass, glacier express) and the highest RR station in Europe (Jungfrau Joch). Hopefull the high Swiss franc didn't spoil You travel <_< I'll travel regularely from Basel to St. Moritz (on business...

Go to the NARP site (http://www.narp.org). there You see some info why the Byrd-Amendment has been abolished even by "red" proponents of Amtrak. The reason seems to be that there was a hidden tax-increase in the amendment. Senator Lott said somting along the lines "it's the wrong time and wrong...

What gives some hope for future votes is that several rep. senators which signed recently a Pro-Amtrak letter voted "Nay" to this specific amendment: Coleman, Hutchison, Santorum, Gregg and even Burns (who was the co-sponsor of this letter. (see...

I really hope so too! But this time it will be hard, the Bush administration seems to start a real PR campaign... I plan 2-3 Amtrak trips this year. 1) May: Washington DC-Denver-Emeryville-LA (on a business trip - I'm a scientist working in field of digital archival of images and movies) 2)...

There should be no problem going to Nice with crime etc. However, I quickly checked the swiss RR time table - there seems to be no suitable night train. However, there are many day trains. One of these I really can recommend, a direct train Basel-Lucerne-Milano-Nizza: Basel SBB: 09:10 ...