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    Gas prices where you are located?

    For diesel we were at 2.38 € per liter (that's almost exactly 10 US$ per gallon) earlier this week - twice as much as it was two years ago. Other gasoline is about 5 cents less. Might have gone down a bit over the week.
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    European Overnight Trains

    Well, ok, I didn't think about that 2) part, sorry. (I live in a country that mandates 4 vacation weeks per year by law, and larger employers give 6 full weeks, so that has never been an issue.) And I have to clarify that I did ride trains over night a lot, but it wasn't sleeping-car trains...
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    European Overnight Trains

    As a European, I know we have these night trains, but to be honest, I have never used any, and probably never will. I want to see countryside if travelling by train, no matter if I know the line already, or not. There was (until Covid) a weekly night train Paris-Moscow which was for a while the...
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    Return to daily service, Feb 15 decision time

    I'm all for having as many passenger trains as possible. But... It might be worth a thought to keep the LD trains (except the Palmetto which really should be daily) on a tri-weekly schedule, and instead add daily daytime trips on certain corridors, like SEA-SPK, OKJ-LAX, CHI-MSP, CHI-DEN...
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    What will the LD network look like in FY 2021?

    Well, as for the Silver Services/Palmetto/Carolinian, what I would do is keep train 91/92 running daily, turn 97/98 into a Boston-Richmond (NE Regional) round trip running roughly on the Silver Meteor schedule slot between New York and Richmond, but using the Palmetto (or regular NE Regional)...
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    Pre Amtrak: Handling of through sleepers in the Chicago hub

    There were a good number of through sleepers via St. Louis, from NYC and PRR over to SLSF and MP mainly en route to Texas and Oklahoma. NYC/MP/FNM operated a through sleeper from New York City to Mexico City via the St. Louis hub (in 1947, at least). But in St. Louis most trains (or all?) used...
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    Pre Amtrak: Handling of through sleepers in the Chicago hub

    Thank you for the responses, that's fascinating! Is there any good book on the Chicago railroad hub (in pre-Amtrak times), describing the operations? Ha! A little bit of cheating. But I love that idea. 😂
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    Pre Amtrak: Handling of through sleepers in the Chicago hub

    Looking at Official Guides of the 1940s and 1950s, one can find several through sleepers from coast to coast, many of which were going through Chicago. Now, Chicago had multiple termini for the various railroads... For example, in 1947 the New York Central handed over sleepers (all from New York...
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    Why I'll Never Ride Amtrak Again

    I mostly ride trains in Europe, and I have made overall positive experiences. Doing around 25 to 30k miles per year on trains, I did occasionally have experiences of rude or just blatantly idiotic behavior by railroad staff, of course. But those are extremely rare and exceptional. 99% of the...
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    DB to withdraw all remaining sleeper trains

    There is also an interesting sleeper train that runs just once per week: the Paris-Moscow express. It leaves Paris around 7 pm on Thursdays, arriving in Moscow Saturday around noon. Back on Tuesday around 7 pm, arriving in Paris Thursday morning. It crosses Germany, and stops in various cities...
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    Trains that kept their pre-Amtrak numbers

    It didn't, but the transcontinental journey from St John's to the west coast would have required a change of trains at Truro.
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    Pre-Amtrak in San Diego

    It was via LA. The Chief didn't run via Fullerton back then, but via Pasadena. (On a side note, the only ATSF long-distance train that went via Fullerton in August 1952 was the Grand Canyon.) edit: Just saw that it was already answered above. ^^
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    Pre-Amtrak in San Diego

    There have also been through long-distance sleepers to San Diego via ATSF. In the August 1952 OG that was the daily sleeper that went from Washington DC to San Diego and back, over the BO (trains 5/6 Capitol Limited) and the ATSF (trains 19/20 Chief and San Diegan trains 74/71). The through...
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    Additional Surfliner Run Effective 10/14/19

    Amtrak has a habit to not publish schedule changes on their website in time for the change. The Valley Flyer service was added to the NEC 2 schedules a month after it was inaugurated. The Sept 23 schedules for NEC 1 and 3 were uploaded just this weekend, almost 2 weeks after the effective date...
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    What would you add?

    No, it's not. There is an almost complete archive of pre-2011 Amtrak timetables: http://www.timetables.org/browse/ And for post-2008 schedules: https://juckins.net/amtrak_timetables/archive/home.php
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    Trains that kept their pre-Amtrak numbers

    If we are at it... It goes further back. The February 1901 Official Guide showed trains SP 11/12 for the Shasta Express already, featuring "Buffet Drawing-room Sleeping Cars and Tourist Cars between San Francisco and Portland". In the August 1895 (and also in February 1896) Travelers' Official...
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    What would you add?

    Bring the State of Maine back! Not sure if that has been proposed, but I would make use of the track connection from Allston to Boston North (that Amtrak already uses to swap equipment to/from the Downeasters), add a station stop at the MIT campus, and extend the Downeasters via Springfield to...
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    Trains that kept their pre-Amtrak numbers

    First, Amtrak started out with the inherited original train numbers, but from the November 1971 schedules on, they used their own number scheme that is largely still in use today. Some train numbers back then were just kept as they were. So there are indeed a number of trains that had the same...
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