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Would be interesting in hearing how you travelled to Ely; its fairy remote.

do you need to make reservations for shuttle or just show your Amtrak ticket.. I'm assuming its just Amtrak passengers

Rail Passengers Association has developed list of timetables. Unofficial since it not Amtraks, but very accurate https://www.railpassengers.org/resources/amtrak-timetables/

RPA is most likely going to have one day meeting this fall somewhere in the Midwest (not Chicago). what would you pay to attend this meeting to hear about various activities advocates are taking to bring improved passenger service to the "fly-over" states

Saturday's #21 Eagle is bring down separate train set today, So for Sunday appears all three trains will be ready to go, #1,#2 and #22. Its been a long time since we have seen a 14 car Amtrak train arriving here.

Just a reminder the website: TexasEagle.com is still great site for information related to traveling on this train.

To the Rail Passengers Council & Board, I wanted to share a letter Rail Passengers staff developed with Senator Steve Daines (R-MT)concerning Amtrak's recent announcement that they will be reducing all the long-distance service to three times per week and suspending a quarter of state-supported...

The pandemic has thrown the airlines into a financial abyss that some will not survive. For the next year or so I suspect most of us will have some degree of hesitation to jumping back on the silver birds. Prior to this crisis air travel was exploding but approaching a comfort limit with...

So with the shutdown , I slipped off with friend to sit at the San Antonio station for take out lunch and watched the freight trians roll by. Amtrak trains only arrive and depart between 9pm and 7am. All was not lost as we discussed how to modify the current undersized station, where we could...

For those not familiar with this writer, he has an absolute amazing website with knowledge of virtually every passenger rail service in the world. If you are thinking about taking a train trip outside the USA, this is where you should begin your research.

Progress is being made in gaining support from various Texas cities served by the Sunset.  Since September 2018 we have gathered supporting resolutions from Jefferson Cty Judge (Beaumont), Mayor of Houston, San Antonio City council, Del Rio Mayor and county judge, Del Rio chamber of Commerce...

Eagle arrival in San Antonio has been 10+ hrs late at least three times since mid October.  Various reason of course. Then again you can see a sunrise in Austin instead of a sunset.

Rail Passenger Association Board of Directors has announced a new specific campaign dealing with current critical Amtrak issues. This campaign is in response to Amtrak’s recent announcement to discontinue all trains where Positive Train Controls will not be operational by the end of this year...

Next time you ride Amtrak ask you conductor if he or she has a punch. If so ask if they would punch something for you.

Coming home Monday on Texas Eagle I met two couples who live on the opposite side of the country, Vermont and Southern California. They asked about the possibility of walking over to the Alamo since their connection to Sunset on train #421 was still two hour away. Begin a good Texan I walked...

There have been several on-line postings about the Dallas station closing down at 5:30 PM and shutting out passengers. I was there yesterday and discussed this with both an Amtrak employee and security guard. Bottom line is that Amtrak passengers who can show valid ticket reservations are...

Does anyone have the schedule for the Temple railroad meetings? Hours? Thinking about riding up and back on Amtrak.

Appears it is taking a slightly different route back from Longview via Corsicana to Hearne today. Delay outside of Longview due to freight incident may be cause. Track my train shows its route.

Article in this week's San Antonio news blog announced sale of several blocks of property surrounding our historic Sunset station. There was implication that station may be included (to be confirmed). This would be good news if new real estate company has the ability to transform our station...

Google show a combination walk and Orange line, but walk is shown as only 0.3 mile. Looking at map walking distance to Orange line looks much longer.