Recent content by McLeansvilleAppFan

A bit more room in BC. Passengers tend to be a bit less loud and rowdy, but generally I have never had problems except the last time I was in coach on the Carolinian. A grandmother was using foul language to her grandchildren. I did not mind the language, I have been known to use the same...

True. I wonder what I will find in a few years. I clearly don't read every word of these magazines, but I do skim and sometimes fly past interesting notes and sometimes one word pops out and I pause. Hopefully I don't miss anything about NY Penn station a few years.

Trains magazine February 1955 page 10. More than 200 architects signed a nopen letter to Robert R. Young and Pat McGinnis in Architectural Forum, requesting them to save Grand Central's famed concourse in the event air rights over the terminal are sold. The concourse is "probably the finest big...

SE NC study can be found here. Dated April 2024. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/649c7228e2109c2801c8f2f3/t/6622fb82122a1e1538343ded/1713568652062/SENC+Passenger+Rail+Feasibility+Study+DRAFT+20240417.pdf

And I am not anti tourism and certainly don't mind getting people downtown. Block a street, we do it a few times a year. One more weekend is not going to kill business and it likely will bring in some more foot traffic. Just leave the parking alone at the Depot.

Well the pickleball tournament was rained out. I am hearing it is to be rescheduled. So any Amtrak, PART, Greyhound passengers still had to walk from non on-site parking and likely during the rain.

NC By Train prints palmcards and small foldables that expend to show the Carolinian and Piedmont trains. Crescent, Silver service, and Palmetto trains are not included.

I regret I can only like this once time. There needs to be a Super-Duper Like.

I'll take 4 to a table just to have a conversation actually. I can eat plenty of meals with just my wife. Travel is special enough to treat it special.

I'll take that over having to stay in a private room. That is a nice option for some but I do like to sit in the dinner and talk to a stranger.

I have two segments on the Crescent in late June and 1 July. I assume summer for Crescent dinner is 2 July. :)

No dining car back as of last weekend and I don't think June 9 will be the case either, but I have heard of summer as a rumor on this board. I did a search on Google Maps. I noticed what I assume is a micro brewery a few blocks away, a Mexican place and everyone's favorite from my hometown of...

March 2024 highest ridership for month EVER. https://www.ncdot.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/2024/2024-04-11-nc-by-train-highest-ridership-month.aspx

I am not sure if Greensboro is advertising this around the area. If could bring in some on the train. That is not a bad idea. And I don't mind it being downtown. Just not here.

18 cars not counting the engines would be about 1500 feet long and the Charlotte platform as measured on Google Earth is about 1500 feet long. Coincidence, I think not. As I continue to work, slowly, measuring all the platforms it will be interesting to see if any existing platforms from...