Recent content by Fort Worthology

That's great news - was hoping they'd bring back the connection. (Point is moot for us, as we've booked a different route going to PDX - the Eagle-to-Empire Builder variety - but still good news.)

Hi all, Booking a trip in May, starting on a Monday from Fort Worth to LA then onwards on the Coast Starlight. Last time I tried this (a year ago), it didn't give you the booked-together all-in-one setup - it was my understanding that Amtrak no longer guaranteed the same-day connection...

Was just pulling that up as I saw your reply - I'm fairly shocked. I'd have thought that the potential for disaster (of the delay variety) between Fort Worth and LA was very high. That's actually pretty encouraging. It does seem bizarre that they wouldn't have an actual connection between the...

We're already pre-disposed to enjoying the train. I figure our viewpoint is closer to the forum's than not. :) Stupid? Yeah. Not entirely surprising, though. :) FW-Chicago-Portland is an alternative I hadn't considered.

This is some grand advice. I was a little perplexed as to why Amtrak's site kept giving me these intricate train-bus-train-train affairs when it should be possible to be much simpler. Especially the advice about the 421 and 422 - I'd have never realized that! Would have made for a less than...

Hi all, First, my background - I'm a resident of Fort Worth, Texas and have been intimately involved with the city's efforts to re-embrace urban development and transit. I'm a big rail supporter, and over Christmas returned to the Amtrak lines for the first time in a long while - taking a...

The city of Fort Worth, Texas is looking to become the next American city to bring back streetcar service to its urban core. A city that tossed aside its original streetcar system decades ago, Fort Worth in the last several years has been undergoing a renaissance of its urban neighborhoods and...