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Amtrak.com still lists the Parlour Car as an amenity available only to first class passengers.

Whoa, the Starlate was actually early for once? Hoorah, to say the least.

There aren't too many non-government organizations left that provide 100% of the cost of medical coverage. Just out of curiousity, do you know how much of the premium your employer is paying?

I just read this comment here posted well after July 3... clearly there is no issue of an NDA here as a PM was sent with the details... I cannot for the life of me understand why someone publicly announce that they have information unfit for public consumption... especially in the context of...

Nah, this guy made too many proclamations and declared them as fact, going one step beyond most of the doomsayers who come around here every couple months insisting that Amtrak is done for. What was in the FedEx packages? Who were these anonymous people "in the know" who knew about these 180...

First of all, as noted earlier, if the folks are good at their job, they will have no trouble finding good employment elsewhere. Second of all, you actually end up saving about $24/hour because of benefits, holidays, favorable work rules, and so on.

More than a week later and still no "news" eh~

you might want to write your congressman in that case, because the feds are spending over $10billion a year on outsourced projects and that number is increasing by 10+ percent a year. i think paying someone $1 an hour to do the same job as paying someone here $15/hour plus full benefits (and...

Google search "pork barrel spending" for a better explanation.

I don't see why the government shouldn't outsource some back-office stuff, though I doubt it'll get rid of the graft

Alan, this is not an attack. If you can provide some insight as to how erroneous info based on unverifiable sources is constructive to this community, please do so. I think taking a look at the thread posted by BNSF is evidence enough of this.

I think you need to stop posting about you (and those like you such as BNSF) "insider" knowledge if you cannot immediately substantiate the kind of claims being made in that thread. This board does not need such unnecessary fanfare, especially given that as of yet no "doomsday" predictions have...

Those guys are lucky with it being the UP's fault. I remember my trip last year where one of the two units died going up the hill out of SLO, and the brilliant engineer decided it would be best to really put his foot into it (not literally of course) and blew the remaining unit trying to make...

I kinda like late trains. More time on the train for free :)

Awesome thread, even if it is a bit old. Kinda makes me want to look into the Modoc Rail Academy I see advertised in Trains Magazine all the time. Working on a railroad was a boyhood dream for me <_<

I will be frank when I say that I have never been on an Amtrak train in my life that didn't have a crew member copping an attitude and providing poor service passengers in some form or another (my first trip was in 1983-- going to Vancouver via the StarLate). In fact, Amtrak's shoddy customer...

No, don't count on getting any Wi-Fi signal. You might get lucky if the train stops and there's a public network nearby. I took my T-Mobile Wireless Access card that connects to the net via cell phone data transmission. The two biggest problems are that the train moves too quickly and the...

Can you explain for me how you make a connection between a wireless broadband provider being contracted to provide WiFi internet access and Amtrak soon providing a standalone application for PDAs, The Chief? I only ask because these are completely unrelated to each other and I cannot find a way...

You are a brave man travelling all of those miles in coach.

That's usually what happens when private corporations decide they have more employees than jobs. But of course, since Amtrak's employees are unionized, the likelihood of anyone being fired seems to me to be close to nil.