Recent content by RovinMoses

Here is a good article from Railway Age regarding EB recent operational challenges: What’s Triggering Empire Builder Service Setbacks? - Railway Age

We were in NYC the first weekend of December for three nights at $767 total including taxes and fees, staying at the Doubletree at Newark Penn. Great hotel and super convenient to NYC -- 13 minutes to NY Penn, or 18 minutes using PATH to World Trade Center. Price almost half what hotels in NYC...

Took the CS from LAX to PDX last Tuesday, arriving ten minutes early into PDX. However, very shortly after departing LAX in Car 1031, Roomette 2, we noticed diesel fumes that you could smell. My eyes seemed to feel the diesel particulate matter. I asked our Attendant about it and she said she...

Making alternate flight plans LAX-PDX on 12-8! Scheduled for CS departing 12-8. Dang!!

Yep, same experience in Hovercraft from Calais to Dover! Unfortunately, there is no access to the the top deck, so all the passengers were inside and had easy access to the motion sickness bags. It was an interesting and wild ride!

While living in Ketchikan, I flew out to a logging camp on Prince of Wales Island for business and stayed overnight with a friend. On the way out, sitting behind me in the Otter was a guy not very sober! Next day the weather was so bad there were no flights. The following day's weather was not...

Alaska Airlines used to have a partnership with Amtrak, but I don't remember the details. I do remember that you could use Alaska Miles to fly to California from PDX and take the train with roomette home. It was actually a very good deal and we used it once.

Last week I entered a bid for business class on the Cascades and it was not accepted even though the website said there was a good chance. I was so happy we didn't pay more to ride in the Heritage Cars instead of the Talgo equipment. It has been so long since I took that train, I didn't realize...

As a pilot, I appreciate your excellent explanation of winds, airport arrival procedures, and the challenges of predicting block times. Every now and then I would chuckle when the captain would announce, during a late push back, that "we're sorry for the delay, but we'll put the 'pedal to the...

Time to confess my delusional thought that "Flex Dining" couldn't be that bad. I was wrong!! We just took EB from SEA to CHI this week and couldn't believe that they had the same frozen meal menu for both lunch and dinner. We both thought the chicken fettuccini was ok, as well as the turkey...

My wife and I have shared roomettes many times and I always get the top bunk! Getting old for the gymnastics required to get in and out of bunk with low headroom :) No problem sharing space and using restroom down the hall, and we prefer to save money for the next adventure. Leaving Tuesday on...

"Stuck 'n Struck" sounds like a catchy name for a business. I'm not sure what kind of business so let imagination run wild! You might want to register that trademark :cool:

An airplane is not really a "sealed" capsule. It is pressurized, but the air filtration system on new aircraft brings in outside air and almost all modern jets have HEPA filters and recycle all the air every three minutes. However, cold viruses can still be transmitted on surfaces or by a...

RovinMoses -- a CB "handle" given to me by my brother several decades ago because I was a Methodist pastor who moved around! "Back in the day" I used it quite a bit on frequent trips from Pendleton to PDX. Remembering Pendleton, we took our grade-school-age kids on The Pioneer to Denver, then on...

Lot's of snow heading north on CS a few years back. Unfortunately, we were delayed by several hours at Redding because the southbound hit a truck parked on the tracks. Then, after leaving Dunsmuir, our train hit a rock, had to back up several miles to Dunsmuir and wait for a new engine. Took...