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Looks like Siemens can provide a full “turnkey” operation for anyone desiring to begin a passenger railroad…🙂

It is often a practice for equipment manufacturers, in various industries, to provide technical assistance to customers when new equipment is delivered. Usually factory techs will train customer’s own techs aboard equipment or at customer’s facilities until customer techs can handle on their...

One result of this speculated change will be the absence of Superliner trains in the East (except for the Auto Train). So for those who are fans of these, or have not yet had the opportunity to ride them close to home, “ride ‘em while you can”. Unfortunately, it seems that the opportunity to...

Even back in the SAL era, the Meteor seemed to be the favorite, as indicated by the assignment of those “Sun Lounge”, glass topped sleeper lounges. The only train “higher” in the pecking order, was the seasonal Orange Blossom Special…

Another "surprise"...you would think NJT might be party to that. Didn't NJT have some agreement with Amtrak on the operation of the commute hour "Clocker's", years back? IIRC, they worked it out that NJT commuter passes would be honored on those, until NJT added some service to replace those...

Is it my imagination, or did I see some shots of the Crawford Hotel lobby in the Denver Union Station among those pictures?🤔

So NC pays the cost of that train beyond its border? I did not know that, and am surprised to learn it…🤔

Agreed…There are specialty companies that negotiate contract hotel rates for corporate customers…Amtrak likely uses one of them.

Does NC cover the cost of the Carolinian beyond its border? If so, then I’d probably agree with your viewpoint. If not, then I would say, Amtrak should be able to extend it south at Amtrak’s expense. Or maybe just make it into a “long distance” train, and let NC add another regional within...

I would love it if they extended the Palmetto back to Miami. It would be nice to have an overnight train across Florida. If it was an extension of the existing train, it would’t have much of an impact on the CSX. As for the Carolinian, I would like to see it extended to Atlanta. And maybe...

Like this…😉

The reason I ask, is someone that may have some “insider knowledge”, and doesn’t come here, may have possibly commented, or hinted at it elsewhere…🤷‍♂️

Has anyone observed similar buzz on other social media sites about the possibility of thru routing the Star and Cap? I personally don’t use FB, so not aware, but still curious…

The Cardinal was using it when using Superliners…

This thread picked my curiosity about my former work location, Denver Union Sation. We used to have published at one time, in addition to the national toll-free number, our local ticket office, as well as baggage room/express office, and an updated recorded train stutus number. I was surprised...

I would consider that as much more than “fair compensation”, as you also received a fare discount when you yourself instituted the modification to your original reservation…🤷‍♂️

Amtrak would have the option of running Superliner or Amfleet/Viewliner equipment on the combined Cap-Star…, but if they would desire to run some cars thru on the Pennsylvanian at PGH, they’d be limited to single level.

You can also do this… https://www.bigbustours.com/en/san-francisco/san-francisco-routes-and-tour-maps We have found the hop-on, hop-off model of sightseeing good for our needs, around the world. We usually will ride the entire loop for an overview, and then go around a second time, getting off...

I am not sure. We stopped there aboard Number 1, on April 9th, and didn’t count, but there were maybe half a dozen or so, boarding. 200 per year would be about 4 per week, or only 1 per train. Surely there are more than that? I will say the depot was way more than adequate, but certainly out...

Could they possibly be planning to permanently cut the train back to a WAS- MIA train, or perhaps run it thru to the Capitol?🤔