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There was about a foot of water on the tracks at New Haven State St at 5:30pm, well after it had stopped raining.

So interesting. Thanks!

Thank you Shortline for your comprehensive reply. It leaves three follow-up questions for me, if you still have the energy to answer them. 1. When dispatchers talk about knowing someone will give them a good move, what does that mean? That the engineer gets the train up to track speed...

What exactly is the breakdown of responsibility between the engineer and the conductor? I get it that the conductor is in charge of everything relating to passengers, but does he or she also have to be qualified on the line? Who communicates with the dispatcher? If it's the conductor who gets...

So there is now a refund fee if you miss your train (and were not travelling First Class or non-Acela Business Class).

My train (the Vermonter) was delayed for six hours back in June and Amtrak called me up and offered a voucher for the value of my ticket. So it doesn't hurt to ask; they might even offer before you ask. That wasn't directly weather-related, though; it was a problem with the tracks

You're in luck because that's the route in the United States with the best train service. The best time to book is as early as possible. Ticket prices generally only go up. Tickets are almost always more expensive the day of travel. Good news: tickets are (for now, although it may be...

According to wikipedia, "This tunnel was built to protect the character of the Groene Hart region."

I'm on the Thalys headed from Schiphol to Paris now. Just went through an enormous tunnel outside Leiden. Does anyone know the point of that tunnel? The train is going through flat farmland and it seems a very odd place to build a very long tunnel.

RIght. I'm more curious about these sun bows. Is the idea that no matter well-maintained track is, there is always a significant chance that tracks will get bent out of shape? Does this really happen in Europe and or even, say, the NEC, where passenger rail is done seriously?

The train stopped in a field in Vernon and let everyone walk around and wait in the sun (which was nice of them). At first they told us we would be there for an hour, because there was one buckled rail. Then they found a second buckled rail. And then a third. After three hours had gone by...

They said they found 3 "sun bows;" the rails had gotten so hot that they had twisted out of shape. Train waited in Vernon, Vt. for I don't know how long. I waited for about three hours before I hitched a ride to WRJ. (1) I thought they just redid the rails on the Vermonter route (2) it wasn't...

See this thread: http://discuss.amtraktrains.com/index.php?/topic/42817-kingston-ri-waste/