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Here is mine, Canadian 11,452 pre-Amtrak 63,648 Amtrak 141,337 TOTAL 216,437 I never traveled on business, this was all pleasure.

This, about December 16. was the traditional beginning of the wintertime Florida service for the snowbirds in the preAmtak days. That is the people who go south for the warmer weather especially in sleepers. The season usually expired about April 24 This amounted to much juicier timetables...

There is a neat article on the Nancy Hanks in the new Classic Trains, Spring 2012 I never rode that train but I did see her several times. I must say she was the train most often mentioned to me by people who found out I was a railfan after I moved to Atlanta from Chattanooga in 1977. She...

I will soon be traveling from Baltimore to Winter Park, FL on the Silver Meteor. This for the Florida mini-gathering. Then I will return from Lakeland to DC on the Silver Star. I am very familiar with the DC area. But what about south Georgia and Florida? Say, from Savannah to Lakeland...

There is a good article on Kansas City railroading in the mid 60s in the Winter 2011 issue of Classic Trains. Actually this article stresses the Rock Island service but there are a few notes on others, such as the Santa Fe. I think those of us on the AU who visited Kansas City last year while...

December 16 (or within one or two days) through April 24(or one or two days) of the following year was the agreed upon season of extra sleeping cars(and sometimes extra trains) to Florida for people to spend part of the winter. These were the trains or through cars from New York...

The winter 2010 "Classic Trains" magazine came out yesterday 11/02. Has a nice article beginning on page 58 showing that the present station was built to replace five stations. Notes that being built in 1954 it was the last big city joint rail depot to be built in the country.

According to the Friday 12/18/09 Atlanta Journal Constitution, MARTA anniversary celerations continue with an event downtown today at the Five Points Station. The first train rolled from the Avondale Station to Georgia State University on June 30, 1979.

Just received my January 2010 TRAINS today. Pretty good article on Penn Station. Many of you will probably like it. Says a train arrives there every 67 seconds. Eight page article.

Sometimes people have questions about the trains which used to run from Chicago to Florida. When Amtrak was formed in 1971 it inherited the South Wind. It was soon renamed the Floridian and was discontinued in 1979. But years before that there had not only been more trains from New York to...

Trains I wish I had ridden. What about you? AMTRAK Sunset Limited all the way from Miami to LAX same trip Coast Starlight all the way same trip from Seattle to San Diego, not just LAX (that did not last long but it did happen) overnight sleeper from Boston and/or New York to Washington...

This Tuesday morning was perfect. I rode the Crescent from ATL to Birmingham. Thus joining some OTOL and AU members, like Alan B, Alan's mother, Kevin Korrell, Kevin's son, and others.They were taking a very long trip to the west coast and back. Some of the people I met for the first time. And...

There is a lot in the local ATL news just now about a murder some time back on the Silver Comet trail. Sometimes the news tries to explain that the name has something to do with trains but they usually do not get it any closer than that. It is now a hiking and cycling trail, very...

No,I never went to the Derby myself by train or any other way. But lots of people did take the train to the Derby at one time. So much so that Lousville became known each year as Pullman City. There was a neat and very complete article on this in TRAINS Magazine in the early 60's, I guess...

A recent poster said she did not know much about motors and other mechanical aspets of this hobby. I assured her I did not either. That we have a very varied and complex hobby and nobody can possibly know about all ot it. That caused me to think I would attempt to make a list of the different...

In a contemporary post on "Old Equipment in St. Louis" the matter of construction came up a time or two. It refers to old Amtrak equipment built in the pre-Amtrak era. I have checked with "Streamliner Cars" in 3 volumns by W. David Randall, 1981. He quotes "Railway Age" 1939 defining a...

Dumb question for an old-timer like me. I note the westbound SL leaves NOL 11:55 a.m. May I assume the diner will be all open and ready for business very quickly after departure?

The Albuquerque station had a serious fire a few years ago. What was rebuilt in its place? Is it a completely new station at a new location, or a was the old structure rebuilt?? My sister (whoe lived there for a few short but glorious years awhile back ) asked me about it last night and I...

Since quite a bit came up about the 20th Century Limited on a recent post, I thought I would offer this info. Here are two book recommendations. "The Twentieth Century Limited 1938-1967" TLC Publishing Richard J. Cook Sr. 1993 and "20th Century" Lucious Beebe Howell-North Books 1962...

My sister and I may soon be going to Lakeland, Fla. We will fly into either Orlando or Tampa and take some sort of ground transportation. I will not be renting a car, thank you. While I am of course researching this shuttle, limo, etc service myself, I would certainly appreciate any...