Recent content by MikefromCrete

UP has offered some public rides on Big Boy runs in the past few years, but the prices have been astronomical.

Union Pacific has absolutely no interest in running passenger trains. Right now, they're in the process of turning over their Chicago commuter trains entirely over to Metra. Unlike BNSF, they have no other contracts to run commuter trains anywhere, they sure wouldn't want to get back into the...

There are a lot of holes in this story. Obviously she got off the train, so somebody (Amtrak police, yard workers) must have found her after the call (from her? from her mother?). The train was not properly searched after arrival. She was on the CONO, so it was daylight by the time it got to...

I think the nine-car concept will be a "core' train with the ability to add coaches and sleepers on head and rear ends.

All kinds of agencies have looked at those Santa Fe hi-levels for years, and nobody is interested.

Metra is also operating holiday trains.

There are no Vemture cafe cars in service yet on any Midwestern route., so the old cafe/business cars are still running.

This seems like quite a radical approach to updating the signal system. It sees Metrolink could have done this over a longer period, allowing Amtrak to run some LD and Surfliner trains. This seems like something the UK would do over Christmas, but the whole British rail system shuts down on...

Reserving an entire coach doesn't seem like that big a deal. Now if they reserved a whole train or ran a special train, that would be something.

According to Trains News Wire, this three Superliner with one business car was run as a salute to CP and its top train handling rating. CP employees and families were invited to ride it. I doubt if there was any "road testing" involved.

I don't think Miles intends to be taken seriously. He's just a guy who enjoys riding trains and buses with his transit fan buddies. You're not going to get a serious analysis from him.

Wouldn't it be rather easy to add luggage capacity to Disney buses. Just buy some new buses. It's not that hard.

And now those 70-year-old cars are at the end of their useful life, with no replacements in sight.

This problem has been going on for way too long. The CN could easily fix these if they want to,. Illinois DOT, Gov. Pritzker and Sen. Durbin should be on CN's case every day until CN goes out and resets the circuits.

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