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Amtrak today made an adjustment to the times 391 (Saluki) and 392 (Illini) will run on the day of the eclipse. 391 will leave Chicago at 6:35 AM and get to Carbondale at 12:05 PM, now arriving about 2 hours before maximum totality there instead of the roughly 15-minute cushion there would have...

That was a fatal incident, and more or less known immediately. There's a Broadcastify scanner feed very close to the site that captured all the audio traffic over the main railroad channel. Because the person was struck by the side of the train, the local fire department had to get set up and...

https://www.wisn.com/article/amazon-delivery-driver-struck-by-amtrak-train-survived/38239454 He was coming back from just making a delivery at the house whose driveway parallels the south side of the tracks. https://goo.gl/maps/XVm87E7tnSNE2KyS9

That Vegabond Inn has been closed for a while due to, I think, the property being used for homeless housing as part of "Project Roomkey" since March 2020. Their website shows that they will start accepting reservations as a hotel again after March 1, 2022, but I don't know if that's true or that...

What's the deal with the very high amount of Vitamin A in the four main entrees? In the US, the tolerable upper intake level of Vitamin A is set to 333% of the daily value. The Asian noodle bowl is well above that and the red wine braised beef comes close.

Yeah, you need to rescan a lot. You can manually tune though, too, as long as you have the right software and know what physical channel the station you are looking for broadcasts on. For watching and recording with my Hauppauge tuner, I usually use NextPVR. For signal analysis, I use TSReader...

One my hobbies when traveling is recording TV video and data in cities I stay in. As such, I typically travel with a USB TV tuner, a mini-TV, and an assortment of small antennas. This includes on the train, though I seldom use any of this stuff on a moving train, because, as stated, trying to...

I don't know if this adds any new information, but here is a transcript of what was heard on the Broadcastify stream of Naperville area railroads. I put a _ to omit names of people who have not been publicly identified. Amtrak #4 Asst. Conductor: [unintelligible] to it, let's do it, conductor...

The best aerial view I've seen yet from the helicopter circling the site. The rear of the train is at the bottom of the frame; the locomotive at the top.

This year in Minnesota, BNSF plans to reinstall the second main track between Big Lake and Becker that was taken out as part of a unwise cost-cutting move in the 80s. A little Farther north, they plan to, in effect, extend sidings between Little Falls and Lincoln to create a mostly double track...

Yep, I immediately thought of the "station" in Deming. It looks real close to what's in Benson, minus a wall.

There's not much construction going on yet. Most of the delays are related to slow orders due to the ground thawing out. Look, in particular, at the delays adding up between Minot and Fargo - that stretch is infamous for spring frost heaves year after year after year, going back to the Great...

This is the private waiting area at St. Paul Union Depot.

All of Indiana has observed DST since 2006. Arizona (outside of the Navajo Indian Reservation in the northeast part of the state) and Hawaii are the only states that don't observe DST.

6 of the 7 amendments offered for a vote passed, each with a voice vote. The McClintock Amendment went to a recorded vote and failed. Here is the roll call for passage of the main bill. 132 Republicans and 184 Democrats voted in favor, while 101 Republicans and no Democrats voted against.

The main bill passed the full House 316-101. 132 Republicans and 184 Democrats voted for the bill, while 101 Republicans and no Democrats voted against. Only seven of the amendments listed on that NARP page actually came up for a vote. They were the ones offered by McNerney (D-CA), Fitzpatrick...

Passage of the bill by the full House is being debated on the floor as I type. http://houselive.gov http://www.c-span.org/video/?324610-2/us-house-legislative-business

No other long-distance trains.

Where are the double track segments that have been opened/will be opened in Montana? I know two segments, consisting of a bit more than 20 miles in total, have opened so far in North Dakota, but I have not heard of anything opening in Montana. Here is a graph of the weekly intermodal and...

How many fewer trains would there be had the Keystone XL pipeline been built by now?