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There's also the category of stations that share a code with an unrelated major airport, like Pittsfield, MA (PIT; which is the airport code for Pittsburgh) or Framingham, MA (FRA; also used by the airport in Frankfurt).

On weekdays, the Starbucks in the US Steel Building opens at 5:30AM (it's closed on weekends), and it's only a short walk from the Pittsburgh station. This is where I ate breakfast when I did the Capitol Limited to Pennsylvanian eastbound transfer, and it also gives a nice view of downtown...

The Buckingham Branch is definitely the roughest piece of track I have ever ridden over on Amtrak. In my experience nothing else even comes close.

The current US passport also has a railroad-themed picture on at least one page.

Huntington is correct. Your move.

My apologies for being a bit late with this reply. Here's an active station:

It might depend on which way you are going - eastbound, the Cardinal would offer very nice views of the New River Gorge, but I think that the westbound schedule has the train going through that area in the evening. I have taken the eastbound Cardinal about a week later than your planned date...

That's the very end of the NEC catenary at Boston South Station (a very nice place to visit indeed). [Well, there's this "end" of it and then there's the bit of catenary that goes to the maintenance shops and dead-ends along I-93]

With regards to coach passengers moving though a revenue sleeping car, this already happens on the Empire Builder anytime that the 807/808 coach is present, since it's the last car on the train and is therefore directly behind the Portland sleeping car.

For nearly any city pair served by both Amtrak and Metra, Amtrak will likely be faster.

Mr. Koala is correct, it's Boston South Station. This was taken just after midnight on a weekday, so the Acelas are presumably awaiting their departures at roughly 5, 6, and 7 AM.

Sorry, not NYP.

I am leaving town for a while tomorrow, and since it might be a busy trip and I won't have time to check this thread much, I will leave a very easy photo. Here's three Acelas in the middle of the night. Have at it.

I belive that's New London, CT.

Hammond Whiting is correct!

As promised, here's an unidentified station. This one should not be too terribly difficult if one knows their post-1971 stations.

Certainly! A photo will follow later this evening when I am not away from my photos.

It's got Auto Train Corporation locomotives - was then from the period when the Floridian combined with the Louisville Auto Train service?

That would leave Morris, MN then, home of the University of Minnesota Morris.

EWR-PHL clocks in at 59 minutes by train and 47 minutes by plane. That's a 1.25 (and that's the shortest flight - one of them takes 57 minutes, for a ratio of 1.04).