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ColoRail reports on the end of the legislative session. State passenger rail gets new fees money Colorado legislature approves first continuous financing for transit In early May the Colorado Legislature passed two bills that will raise more than $160 million annually...

Yes, regarding the "Pioneer" connection having been removed. They did that when they added a head-on connection from the Brooklyn (SP) Yard to the Sullivan's Gulch Line. The cost of reinstating it was included in the 2009 PRIIA "study." That area was controlled by the UP East Portland Tower...

Art Lloyd, Amtrak West PR Director, tried to get the BBC to wait for the Superliners, but they didn't. The original BBC show kept appearing during pledge weeks, etc. It is somewhat the same problem with outdated flex dining in old YouTube reviews.

April 2023 - trash box blockade/

Clegg has been active on transport issues and would not just be a token.

The Las Vegas <> Kingman bus connection has worked well for me. The only problem was with a cab driver who "knew" that Amtrak Thruway buses left from the South Strip Transit Center. There is a Thruway bus to Bakersfield from that location, but as your reservation will show, the Kingman bus...

Here's how it looks in mass media: https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/amtrak-just-announced-2-big-routes-for-the-summer/ar-AA1o3J7R?ocid=socialshare&pc=EDGEESS&cvid=0bc5c0b949d148a898b2e6c98a38d3a3&ei=24

A rule of thumb that has worked for me is that the ridership on a well-designed service can keep growing up to the point where headways are equal to travel time between points being served. Adding more service past that point results in diminishing returns, unless it's being added to handle...

Small lines sometimes omitted car numbers in their Guide listing. After WWII when they said "Sleeping cars" that usually meant that one was assigned, but sometimes extra cars were added. But the Guide won't always help with that. In the 1940's the Soo Line's "premiere" train pulled out of...

That sort of first and last listing is helpful, but not always done where it should be. I rode that train from Boston to Washington in an Amfleet-1 coach once, in 1987. It was an emergency, but it made a good Rail Travel News story. The Army was using it for troop movements -- I know from...

2023 - enjoyed Waterfront Inn at Jack London Square. Enjoyed Buttercup breakfast. Enjoyed Oakland produce district breakfast, ferry to SF, Muni Metro between Embarcadero and Chinatown. Chinatown looked as busy as ever. On another day took ferry from Oakland to SF and then ferry to Vallejo...

The Heritage fleet Coast Starlight ran up to 17 cars and occasionally had a business car or deadhead as the 18th.

For reference: 1985

Looks like it was on the tightest curve, leading to or from the Albina Yard. Biggest UP steam engines could not use that directly.

Good idea! It'd be interesting, too, to know if ODOT has done more than having an attractive website and buying some MSN ads. For readers unfamiliar with the Portland Rose Festival, it's focused on the second biggest floral parade in the U.S. and with over a week of events it generates...