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I have seen posted at another Internet location that the 24-car Amfleet Hurricane Evacuation fleet that has been in New Orleans since the summer of 2006 is on its way in 3-car segments to Wilmington, behind Train #20 (northbound Crescent). This is presently unconfirmed. I was wondering if...

From other internet sources, originally from Arrow: 01 DIGEPLAYER SERVICE DISCONTINUED IMMEDIATELY 02 03 RAILWAY MEDIA, THE COMPANY THAT PROVIDED THE DIGEPLAYER 04 VIDEO DEVICES THAT WERE AVAILABLE ON CERTAIN AMTRAK TRAINS, 05 IS GOING OUT OF BUSINESS, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. 06 07...

I reserved and have picked up tickets for a trip tommorrow on Train #448, the Lake Shore Stub Train, going from Albany to Springfield (and yes prepared for possible delays if #48 is late into ALB). Since the trip is comparatively inexpensive (vs NEC, Empire Corridor), I decided to book Business...

From KCRA-TV, Channel 3 in Sacramento, CA, 8/17/07: Story is here. Note that the "conductor" had to be rescued from the engine. :blink: :blink:

From Cleveland, OH Plain Dealer, 8/19/07: Note that this story is 5 pages long, so please navigate between the pages. The entire article is here.

May not seem like much but..... Here's a conductor/trainman who failed Ticket Tearing 101. My son and I were aboard Regional #148 the other day, and upon surrendering our tickets, when trying to tear the stubs off to return them to us, one of the tickets did not tear on the perforation but...

News Release National Railroad Passenger Corporation 60 Massachusetts Avenue NE Washington, DC 20002 http://www.amtrak.com/ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ATK-07-087 August 6, 2007 Amtrak Adjusts Schedule of Keystones and SEPTA's Paoli Line to Accomodate Track Work New Schedules Take Effect...

News Release National Railroad Passenger Corporation 60 Massachusetts Avenue NE Washington, DC 20002 http://www.amtrak.com/ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ATK-07-081 July 30, 2007 Amtrak Missouri Service Schedules Change August 8 to Reflect Track Work Progress Morning Eastbound Service from...

Besides Megabus in the Midwest, one deeply discounted means of travel by bus on the East Coast is the series of privately owned Chinatown buses. These buses do not serve the normal downtown terminals in the major cities, but rather they run from a curbside in each city's Chinatown. I believe...

This is currently unconfirmed. so take it for what it's worth... a warning just in case you were planning travel in the very near future through North Carolina. It has appeared in a series of e-mails I received from various leaders at Carolinas Association for Passenger Trains (CAPT), a...

The California Zephyr's planned schedule change and Wyoming detour have both been postponed once more. Details here from TRAC.

Service Alert: Vermonter Trains 54, 55, 56 and 57: Motorcoach Service between Springfield and St. Albans June 22-26, 2007 Passengers will be provided motorcoach service between Springfield, MA, and St. Albans, VT, due to track work being performed by New England Central Railroad. Northbound...

This derailment along the BNSF route in Iowa caused the CZ to be coupled to the SWC in Galesburg and run as one supertrain to Kansas City, thence on its own on a normally non-passenger route back to Lincoln, NE and its regular route. Details here.

From Access Northern Georgia, 5/8/07: Story is here.

From KCRA-TV, Channel 3 in Sacramento, CA, 5/8/07: Online reports say that the train involved was #713. Full story is here.

From New York, NY Newsday, 5/3/07: Although no Amtrak train begins or ends its run in Syracuse, an Amtrak official says otherwise: Try New York to Toronto... it had to be the Maple Leaf at that time of day. Story is here.

This story about the Sunset Limited is factual..... From KNBC-TV, NBC-4 in Los Angeles, CA, 5/2/07: Story is here.

From Milwaukee, WI Journal-Sentinel, 4/19/07: Story is here.

From WMC-TV, Channel 5 in Memphis, TN, 4/23/07: Usually when we use the word collided, we say in the same sentence what the subject collided with. This could have been as serious as Bourbonnais, but thankfully there were no reported injuries nor a fire on the train, despite explosion of the...

From WXXA-TV, FOX-23 in Albany, NY, 3/28/07: The rest of this short story is here.