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Greetings all: Long time no post. I'm just back from a business trip from Boston to Norfolk, VA. I rode #95 south, #66 north and the thruway busses under the water. Both of these trains are Regional trains, and I rode in Business Class. When my ticket was lifted on the ride down, the...

Monday, January 07, 2008 Greetings from train 48, the Late For Sure Limited. ™ My wife, five year old daughter and I are on our way home from spending three weeks in the Los Angeles Basin over the holidays. This Amtrak adventure started on Friday night at the train station in Fullerton...

I've got to go to Montreal. I'm thinking on taking the Adorandak from ALB. Anybody know what kind of equipment Amtrak uses on this run: Amfleet II or Cramfleet I? Thanks in advance for any/all replies Rick

Greetings all: The family and I are returning from spending Christmas in SoCal on Amtrak. We are boarding the SW Chief at Fulleron, CA at 7:20 pm, and we are in a bedroom. Anybody know if the dining car will be open for dinner that soon from departure from LA? The last time we did this we...

I've got the opportunity to ride the rails in Europe next summer. My parents have purchased a Baltic cruise as a family reunion. The cruise ship leaves Copenhagen, Denmark on July 4th. I've been offered free accomodatons and a tour of London on June 30th through July 2nd from a friend who is...

I've got four hours to kill in Pittsburgh next month. I'm taking the Keystone from New York, Penn to Pittsburgh and connecting to the Capitol Ltd. The Keystone arrives in Pittsburgh at 8:00 pm and (assuming CSX hasn't done their usual magic) the Capitol Ltd. arrives in Pittsburgh at 11:55 pm...

I live in Worcester, Ma and need to go to Vancouver, BC. I'd like to ride the Canadian one way and the Empire Builder one way. Anybody have any experience on this trip? I have a few specific questions: 1. Is there any way of avoiding the bus from Vancouver to Seattle? Amtrak appears to run...

Anybody know how many cars the Auto Train holds? Honest, my mother in law wants to know. Rick

OK, so I bought one of those fancy expensive signed by the artist posters from the Amtrak store. I purchased it via amtrak.com and requested it be mailed to my office. It will be framed and hanged on the wall of my office. About a week after the order is placed and within days of the print...

Greetings Gang: I hit the rails Saturday morning. I'm off to thaw out and practice law in Ft. Lauderdale. I'm on the Regional to NY Penn and on the Silver Meteor to Ft. Lauderdale, arriving Sunday evening. I've read on here that when DST "springs ahead" the conductor advances the his/her/the...

Greetings Gang: OK, I expected the service to honor my request to examine my clients in Charlotte, NC. But no, my clients and I have a hearing in Memphis, TN. This puts me on the City of New Orleans from/to Chicago. The schedule in and out of Memphis is conducive to a same day/no hotel...

Greetings Gang: I'm off to Miami in March. I'm looking to take the train south from Boston. My schedule says I need to fly back north. As I dink with Amtrak.com, it seems to give me connections in Washington. If I'm (ok my client is) going to plunk down $321 for a viewliner sleeper, I'd...

Two maintenance workers were killed when their track repair vehicle was struck by an MBTA commuter train in Woburn, MA. One other worker has been hospitalized. Read all about it here. Rick

Greeting Gang: I get to go to Austualia in the upcoming months. I'm looking to ride the rails down under. Anybody on here know anything about passenger rail service in Australia? Specifically I will need to travel between Sydney and Cairns, Queensland. Thanks in advance for any infromation...

Greetings Gang: I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on the Auto Train for June and have a few questions about the booking process. 1. I'm booking two roomettes on the way down. I understand that in order to get two rooms across the hall from each other, I need to call Amtrak, book this...

I've finished the trip report. You may view it here. I've used standard HTML as opposed to Microsoft's single page HTML. I think that was the problem with the last trip report I posted. If anybody can't open this, let me know. I've also got a PDF version that I can post, but I would need to...

I recently subscribed to the Worcester (MA) Business Journal. There appears to be a railfan or great interest in passenger rail related issues in this magazine. First, the state of Connecticut is contemplating establishing rail service between Worcester and New London. Read all about it here...

Greetings Gang: The immigration service is doing something unexpected. I have a client in the middle of nowhere Tennessee who wants to become a US citizen. I requested for the service to hold her naturalization hering in Washington, DC. I expected the service to send her file to Memphis. It...

Greetings Gang: I need to go to Ft. Dix, NJ, and I'm looking to take the train. As near as I can tell I should take the train from Route 128 to Newark or Philadelphia and rent a car. Does anybody know a better way? Also, I have received an e-mail from AGR. As an inducement to get me to try...

I spoke to Amtrak this afternoon. The agent I spoke with informed me that there are some minor schedule changes to my upcoming trip to Fullerton. The scheudle for Train #449 from Worcester to Albany remains unchanged. I arrive in Albany at 5:35 pm. Train #49 does not depart Albany for...