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    RNC Convention Platform Plank addressing Amtrak

    Over the years, I have stayed out of this argument when it has been brought up here, but now I will get into it. And I'm sure I will not be popular. The Constitution expressly gives Congress the power to build intercity highways, or as they were called then, "post roads." (Article I, Section...
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    Chicago Metropolitan Lounge

    When I am using an Amtrak lounge, my suitcase has already been checked and is somewhere in the hands of Amtrak. The bag I would leave in the lounge's baggage room while I go wandering is my small carry-on, which contains a few articles of clothing but also my iPad, prescription medicine, and...
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    Cascades derails in Tukwila 6/26

    It was going five miles per hour. Nobody was hurt. http://komonews.com/news/local/nobody-injured-when-amtrak-train-derails-in-tukwila
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    Seattle King Street Station

    That was The Iron Horse, which closed in 2000.
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    Seattle King Street Station

    It is a new outlet of Bartell Drugs, a Seattle chain, which is going in on the ground floor of the new building at the northeast corner of 4th and Jackson.
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    Lease for King Street Station finalized

    If you go to the Seattle DOT web page for King Street Station, you will see towards the top the link "King Street Station Amtrak Lease Authorization," which will download (or open) a PowerPoint presentation. On page 9 of that presentation is a historic picture of the Women's Waiting Room, and...
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    Empire Builder Opinions Needed

    It's not necessarily "economical lodging," but the Mayflower Park Hotel is right downtown and is in the same block as the Westlake light rail station. Although I have never stayed there, I can tell you they pour an honest drink in the bar. Close to King Street Station there is also the Silver...
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    How do you describe a train trip to someone used to flying??

    I tell them it's like traveling in a big RV being driven by someone else.
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    New station for Tacoma, WA proposed

    The (Tacoma) News Tribune: Freighthouse Amtrak station project in jeopardy "State transportation officials say they’re making a hurried effort to find a site for Tacoma’s new Amtrak passenger rail station after negotiations to buy a portion of Freighthouse Square for that structure reached an...
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    Cafe space in Seattle's King Street Station for rent, finally

    There were never plans for a lounge. During the renovation the city was always talking about renting the second and third floors to businesses or restaurants -- all the renderings showed part of the be-graveled bum hangout facing Jackson Street as an outdoor dining area -- but they have...
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    DC Hotel

    I too like to find hotels near Metro stations. I have stayed at the Marriott Wardman Park, which has the Woodley Park/Zoo Metro station right in the same block (but be aware the hotel is uphill from the station). It is kind of a gigantic convention hotel -- I sat down at the bar and the...
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    LA Hotel

    I have stayed at the Sheraton in downtown Pasadena, which is easily accessible from Union Station via the Metro Gold Line to the Del Mar station, and I have stayed at the Biltmore in downtown LA, which is two stops away from Union Station on the Red Line or Purple Line (Pershing Square station)...
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    NW Mudslide Season 2015-16

    I'm on the late 8 in question. There was a slide near Mukilteo Monday evening, so we were bused from Seattle to Everett. There were two buses, but the train left Everett immediately after the first bus arrived. The poor people on the second bus had to ride the bus back to Seattle, get put on a...
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    Seattle hotel?

    You might consider the Silver Cloud Hotel at the corner of 1st Ave S and S Royal Brougham Way. It's immediately southwest of Century Link Field and just across the street from the left field foul pole of Safeco Field. It's a dead flat walk from King Street Station -- Google says it's 0.6 mile...
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    Amtrak connections to local rail transit - Is Chicago the worst?

    Yes, it is ridiculous that the First Hill Streetcar line will go past King Street Station and ID/Chinatown Station and not stop at either. It should stop right at the curb in front of both. (Of course, this line is not being built for transportation purposes, it is a political payoff.) There...
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    The month of March For CS and Empire Builder

    From the window of my roomette, here we are just outside Browning, Montana on the morning of March 11, 2013. Somewhere out there is a horizon.
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    Amtrak Chocolates Are Back!

    The last Amtrak chocolate square I had (last year) was made by Astor Chocolate. I looked them up when I got home and found I could buy the same chocolate, the dark chocolate with orange peel, here...
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    EB Mess - 2

    In my one experience with missing my connection I had paid for a Superliner roomette and was rebooked into a Viewliner handicap bedroom, which was very nice. If you are asking if one might have to pay extra for the upgrade, no, I got the better room for no additional charge. BUT, there were...
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    Sleeper room etiquette

    "It's the train that does it. The Super Chief is definitely an aphrodisiac. Even to me, old and beat-up as I am. I get that feeling in my blood the minute I step on this train. All the hidden mysteries of the orient can't compete with high-pitched laughter locked behind a strange compartment...
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    Washington Post Article: Amtrak On-Time Performance

    Being discussed here, and it's the Washington Post, not the WSJ.
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