Recent content by rrwx

My brother-in-law was on 30 from Chicago. Train made it as far as Pittsburgh and was annulled and was about 7 hours down by then...no way it was getting further with both the downed trees and the derailment ahead of it. I'll have to talk to him more to get the details.

I'll second that, monitor where you are, and that should work pretty well if you're heading into Chicago. It doesn't always work though....from my experiences on the Capitol Ltd, most of the time from when we left Cumberland till I got off at Connellsville there was no cell signal with which...

Took a round trip on the Capitol Limited this week from DC to Connellsville, PA, riding in coach. Train was sold-out, and I was given an assigned seat in the last coach. Headed up to the lounge car before it got too dark and watched the sun going down as we headed (north)west. The train on...