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  1. Oldsmoboi

    Sale on LD trips starting next week.

    So says the Amtrak facebook page. No further details as of yet.
  2. Oldsmoboi

    Anyone know what this is

    I'm on a trip and I passed this on I287 through NJ Google Maps There was some rather restored looking vintage passenger cars there and I thought it was maybe a museum of some sort. From the air, it's not as impressive, but at least one of those diesels has a Jersey Central Lines logo on it...
  3. Oldsmoboi

    Fixing the Capitol Ltd

    One of the anti-Amtrak guys on the website I run likes to point out that the Cap Ltd only makes about 50% of what it costs to run. Here is my Guest_USrail21_* style idea to "fix" it: The Capitol Ltd is an example of losing money due to lack of service density. This route was selling out...
  4. Oldsmoboi

    HSR acceleration rate?

    I'm just curious, assuming no passengers on board and thus not accounting for passenger comfort, how fast can something like the ICE3 or TGV or even Acela accelerate? Basically - What is the 0-60?
  5. Oldsmoboi

    Add passengers to bedroom later?

    I have to go to Chicago in Feb. I know I am going no question. The question is, who and how many are going with me. The max is 2 additional people for this trip. Can I easily add passengers to my bedroom later if I buy the bedroom tix for myself now (currently low bucket)
  6. Oldsmoboi

    Train down on NEC.

    I'm on 94 out of Philly right now and we've stopped to pick up passengers from a disabled train about 3 miles outside of 30th Street station. I don't know which train is down... but we're pulling alongside a bunch of Amcans.
  7. Oldsmoboi

    What was EMD's design submitted to compete with the Genesis?

    What was EMD's design submitted to compete with the Genesis? Is it published? Has anyone seen it?
  8. Oldsmoboi

    LD or HSR

    Would you "give up" LD travel as it is today for a nationwide network of HSR? Amtrak is packing trains like the Capitol Ltd. to their sold out point yet still can't make any money on them. Part of the problem is that there is too many man hours that go into running an overnight sleeping train...
  9. Oldsmoboi

    My little heart stopping adventure on the NEC

    A few weeks back I was returning home from New Haven to Pittsburgh. I just barely made it onto train 143 at NHV before the doors closed. The woman next to me with two small children was taking Amtrak for the first time and was a bit confused. She was asking the conductor for assistance...
  10. Oldsmoboi

    Current Cap Ltd. OTP

    We all know why the EB has been running way behind as of late.... I've been monitoring the Cap Ltd over the past few weeks and it's been consistently 1 hour to 2 hours late each direction each day. Today's 30 is already over 4 hours late. We're not experiencing any flooding in this end of the...
  11. Oldsmoboi

    West out of Pittsburgh

    Was there ever a name train (even pre-amtrak) that ran west out of Pittsburgh that didn't go to Chicago? Something like a Pittsburgh-Columbus-Cincinnati-St. Louis or Pittsburgh-Columbus-Indianapolis-St. Louis. I ask because one of the frustrations I currently have is that in my need to travel...
  12. Oldsmoboi

    Spotted in Pittsburgh today

    As I was riding my bus into downtown this morning, I spotted something pulling out of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Station that was kicking up a lot of smoke, clearly accelerating. It was a dark reddish color that at first I thought was one of the Allegheny Valley Railroad engines that is sometimes...
  13. Oldsmoboi

    What is the reason the DB-ICE couldn't be used on the NEC?

    What is the reason the DB-ICE couldn't be used on the NEC? I'm sure it's entirely FRA requirements, but I'm curious as to why that train set couldn't be put on a boat and shipped over. What are the "deficiencies" in the FRA's eyes? I do realize that it couldn't travel at the speeds they get on...
  14. Oldsmoboi

    NHV to PGH: Where to change trains?

    I'm going to be taking Amtrak from New Haven to Pittsburgh on a Saturday. Do you suggest I change from the Regional to the Penny at NYP or at 30th Street?
  15. Oldsmoboi

    Passenger Rail under an Oldsmoboi administration

    This is something that I posted in the Politics section of my own website, a limited access part of the forums that only select members can see. I have one person there who is fiercely opposed to all things rail (I don't know if a Lionel ran over his pet hamster or just what). This was my...
  16. Oldsmoboi

    Capitol running very late today

    EB Capitol LTD is running at least 4 hours behind today. It departed Pittsburgh station at about 9:10am. Is there weather going on that would have held it that long?
  17. Oldsmoboi

    Amtrak Website Problems

    Why can't the Amtrak website figure out that if I want to travel from Pittsburgh, PA to Princeton Junction NJ, that I should take either the PAer to Harrisburg and switch to Keystone (2 hour layover) or take the PAer to Trenton and switch to Keystone or NER? Yet to get me PGH to Trenton NJ...
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