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I just know everyone is waiting for these numbers. I only look at the LD trains. Amtrak's performance reports for the six months ended March 2014 are finally out. Overall, Amtrak's operating loss is about 102 million. Cost recovery is 71%. Biggest losers are the CZ, 21 million; EB, 17.5...

Some really great live video of trains in the snow storm. Happening now. See #30 about three hours late and lots of freight action on Train Orders. http://www.trainorders.com/videos/sandpatch/ Looks to me like CSX is running.

Gene Poon <[email protected]> Feb 01 10:17AM -0800 There is NO announcement on Amtrak.com and no notice in the timetable: Train #2 will be departing Los Angeles (LAX) at 8pm on the following days in 2014: Feb. 02, 05, 07, 09, 16, 19, 21, 23 Mar. 02, 05, 07, 09, 16, 19, 21, 23 This is due to...

If you think it's cold now, just wait. Record breaking cold by next Monday and Tuesday. 15 below in Chicago and Indianapolis. Wind chills of 50, 60 or 70 below. If you are under 40yo you have not seen this stuff before. An historic cold outbreak. It will freeze over the Great Lakes and...

It's out. The final performance report for the fiscal year. Looking at revenues, Auto Train is king with 75.4 million followed closely by the EB at 72.9. Third thru sixth are CZ at 55.7, SWC at 49.1, Starlight at 47.7 and Meteor at 42.4. After that they decline into the 30's and on down to...

I only look at the long distance trains, but here is what I see with two months to go in this fiscal year. Amtrak reports fully allocated loses of around 550 million. I get operating loses of around 81.5 million or cost recovery of about 85%. Biggest winner is of course Auto Train with...

Yesterday's 822 and today's 821. Anyone know what is going on?

Where is Anderson when we need him. Anyway here are my numbers. I just look at the LD trains. Amtrak reports they lost 380 million for the six months ended April 30th. I calculate my own cost numbers since I don't believe a company that allocates 80% of it's costs. I get operating loses of...

They are out. Where is Anderson and his detailed reports? Anyway, I posted the numbers to my spreadsheet. So here at the half way point, with the summer crunch yet to come, I get an operating loss for all LD trains(the only ones I care about) of about 66 million. Auto train is the big winner...

I guess the first question would be how did this come about. That’s easy for me. I had always wanted to ride the Cardinal from Chicago to New York because it goes through the New River gorge and is supposed to be a very scenic ride(which it was). That train is very hard to get a room on as it...

Several states are exploring ways of taxing motorists based on the number of miles driven per year as fuel efficiency has outpaced the federal gasoline tax, according to a USA Today story. Minnesota and Oregon launched programs that track the miles driven by motorists via a GPS-equipped phone...

I read Fred Frailey’s Trains Magazine article on “What’s Next for Amtrak” with great interest. But what struck me most was the comment that the 15 LD train were expected to lose $530 million in 2012. I am a retired CPA so I like to work with numbers and I just found this hard to believe. So...

I am sure all you smart guys on here have figured it out by now. But the day trip from Houston to Lafayette on Fridays is gone with the new schedule change. However, an even better trip is now possible. Houston(or San Antonio) to Alpine on Wednesdays. Leaves Houston at 6:55pm Wednesday and...

No one wants to hear this.....but unfortunately it is happenning and pretty fast. "More than one source from a host of contacts are confirming President and Chief Executive Officer Joseph Boardman appears to be experiencing some sort of difficult time with outbreaks of flying off the handle...

I'm back in America for a book promotion tour and yet again I am appalled at the inefficiency of Amtrak. I want to love Amtrak as it is the US's only passenger train service but the company's clunky procedures and often rude staff make it very hard. FULL STORY

The AARPCO special is this coming weekend leaving NOL Sunday and arriving KC on Wednesday. According to their web site Sunday is NOL to Galveston. Monday is Galv to Fort Worth. Tuesday is Fort Worth to Newton. Wednesday is Newton to KC. Anyone have a time schedule for the trains? I may try...

According to the latest forecasts, Irene will skirt the eastern coast of Florida and make landfall somewhere around Charleston about Friday. When will Amtrak start making announcements about service suspensions?

Here is the link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304186404576388133220813792.html

With all the flooding, fires and whatever and three of Amtrak's four western LD trains out of service I think it's time to bring back the UP's infamous 'City of Everywhere'. It was the City of LA, City of San Francisco and City of Portland combined. It split at Denver and Ogden.

Amtrak advertises various vacation packages and they just released another video about them. Has anyone on here used these? I don't recall ever reading about any here.