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Two weeks ago I tagged along with my wife as she attended a conference in Atlantic City. Since I had a rental car I drove to Cape May one day. Excellent beachcombing near the lighthouse. You can watch the car ferry to Delaware come and go. I found the visitor center which is housed in a...

New name for the New River (Gorge) Train: https://www.autumncolorexpresswv.com/

If you research the the timetables of the first two years of Amtrak you'll find some interesting operations. First, trains #12 and 13 operated daily between Oakland and San Diego as the COAST DAYLIGHT. At the same time, #11 and #14 operated three times a week as the COAST STARLIGHT between...

I'll limit this to existing Amtrak trains. Is there a section of a route you could ride over at one time but has been taken out of service more or less permanently? I'm thinking of: the Phoenix AZ segment of the SUNSET LIMITED. the Dallas-Ft. Worth segment of the TEXAS EAGLE on the T&P/UP. the...

And glad you did! [Detour lasted long enough to plan a trip or you knew about it in advance to plan a trip.]

But you never did!

In addition to a nationwide timetable, there were individual schedules published by the respective carriers acting under contract. Here are examples of one for Southern Pacific acting as a contract carrier.

TRAINS has a feature on this subject in its July 2019 issue. Bob Johnston covers trains we had in the West that are no longer part of the system. He also includes the NATIONAL LIMITED because of its Kansas City connection and through sleeping car.

For Amtrak passengers, that is. At one time you could see these from an Amtrak passenger train: Great Salt Lake crossing Homestake Pass Stampede Pass Gulf Coast bays and estuaries Sherman Hill Blue Mountains Columbia River (UP side) Virgin River Canyon? (not 100% sure about this one)

I believe this was in 1993. I had a no-cost invitation to ride coast to coast on the (pre?)inaugural run. I didn't because I had already planned vacation to travel extensively over VIA Rail East. I did manage to get an inaugural packet. (See attachment.) In 1996 I rode from central Florida to...

Here's a photo of one. Any others? I think I have a SUNSET LIMITED schedule in Spanish. Somewhere.

I had no idea they were still in service! https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-48327739

The former Fred Harvey House in Las Vegas NM, La Castaneda, has re-opened. It is adjacent the Amtrak depot. Its restoration was made possible by the same owners who operate La Posada in Winslow AZ. Both properties are located on the route of the SOUTHWEST CHIEF. http://castanedahotel.org/

The Camerail Club newsletter confirms that the Omaha to Boone, IA excursion on the former C&NW sponsored as a fund raiser for the UP Museum will be on Monday , 7/15/19. Ticket prices are not public yet. They will be high! As high as the Ogden-Evanston fundraiser trip? Unknown at the moment...

Chicago to Carbondale and return using ex-SAL lounge-sleeper car. https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190413/nonprofit-plans-historic-train-ride-aboard-1950s-observation-car?platform=hootsuite

This long-running name passenger train between Melbourne and Adelaide faces discontinuance: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-29/overland-train-service-set-to-be-cancelled/10565422

I found a note card where I jotted down the consist of the last Houston-section of the Texas Eagle on 9-09-95: Locomotive 294 Coach-baggage 31021 Coach 34047 Lounge café 33011 I was aboard the first press run and northbound 522 back in 1988.

The November 2018 issue of TRAINS has an article, "VIA at 40."

I have a winter-spring 2016 timetable (effective 1-11-16) as the last printed issue for the system. Any after that date? I also have a 2016-2017 Rail Vacations booklet which I suspect is the last printed one as well.

I observed both #7 and #8 about a half dozen times during the week of 9/17/18 to 9/21/18 at three different locations near Glacier NP. It was on-time only once. The longest delay was about 5-6 hours. The trains I saw were 9 to 10 cars long with 2 or 3 locomotives. On one westbound, there...