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As I've written before, the most robust way to compare the modes of transportation would be to get recent figures on passenger miles traveled and fuel use, and then calculate fuel use for passenger mile. You then need to calculate the CO2 emissions per gallon of fuel or kWH (for electric...

Let's not forget "Thurgood Marhsall BWI Airport Station," "Moynihan Train Hall," "Ronald Reagon National Airport," and a slew of other airports around the world named for people.

Pictures won't help. They look like it's tasty food, but a lot of that depends how it's reheated. Hint: They're supposed to be reheated in a convection oven, but sometimes a microwave is used, with disappointing results.

You also have to go up stairs to get to the lounge in Boston. I think there's an elevator, but you need to have the redcap access it for you. Fortunately, the red caps are stationed right in front of the lounge entrance, and they will hold your bags securely if you don't want to haul them up...

If you really want to have seat on the Northeast Regional facing forward, all the business class seats in the 2x1 club-cafe business class seats face forward. These are found on the Vermonter, on the 65/66/67 overnight trains to Boston and on one of the Roanoke trains (151 southbound, not sure...

Amtrak already carries 75% of NY-WAS air+rail traffic, even with the current "slow" schedules. You'll never eliminate all NY-WAS air traffic, because some people are flying to make connecting flights, or maybe their final destination is near the airport. Where they need to speed up the service...

Sure, it's a possibility, but terrorists usually don't do things to "escape being noticed." Getting publicity for their cause is a more important objective. Even state actors who are doing such sabotage as legitimate acts of war, like the Ukrainians did with the Kerch Bridge, are quite open...

Actually, I find it hard to look out the windows when the bed is set up and I'm lying in it trying to sleep. The only exception is the roomette upper bunk in the Viewliners.

They're very handy if you're taking a discretionary trip and you can't use your 12-hour upgrade coupon or there are no decent seats left on the departure. You can cancel without penalty and try booking for another day. I also had a situation recently where I accidentally booked the wrong day...

I saw a trainst sitting in Ivy City on Wednesday.

The journalist based his estimates on a bunch of computer models that aren't actually backed up by actual fuel consumption test data and that don't account for variability from trip to trip. Probably the most robust way to compare emissions by mode would be to take the total passenger miles of...

Which is why for-profit private companies cannot run a useful passenger rail system. At best they can "skim the cream" off of a few routes, but that just makes the rest of the system financially unsustainable.

They could also put in barrier islands. See the Sunshine Skyway and the Commodore Barry Bridge.

So how are they going to handle the Lake Shore Limited?

I think that commuting is recovering. Unfortunately, a lot more of it is being done by car, as I discovered this morning, driving around Suburban Washington. The train to Washington was not empty, but not jam packed, either. The MARC crowd at Baltimore Penn was bigger than 2 years ago...

Looks like the Swiss are running the NEC this morning.

By the time any of this service comes online, dual mode Airo trainsets should be available, so the lack of electrification beyond Lansdale or Norristown should not be a problem.

Funny, I visited Britian in 1985, and I was impressed by the BR service. They had a lot of trains and they were mostly on time. Of course, compared to what it was 10-20 years earlier, it might have been going downhill.

Oh, yeah, Maglev will get you from Washington to Baltimore in 20 minutes at a proposed fare of $50. Of course, right now, you can ride on an Acela that does the trip in 30 minutes and costs $40.

Amtrak kosher meals are basically like Flex dining, except that they give you more food. They're frozen and reheated as needed.