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Are they able to re-stock the cafe car in Lancaster when they ... uh ... never mind. ;)

Seems to be some additional work planned this week in the slide-prone area near VanWa.

I got an email yesterday advising me to register for double points "now through May 21." Not sure if it's targeted, but a family member got it too.

A truck driver who ignored height limits for I-95 struck a railroad bridge on I-95 last night, causing damage to the bridge that carries freight and NJT's Atlantic City line (near the Delaware River). The freeway is shut down as well as rail traffic. NJT has established a "bus bridge" between...

Judging from the Amtrak Alerts twitter feed, the "south of Kelso" slide zone has struck again. This post was followed by several others referring to the cancellation of various Cascades and CS trains, which will presumably last until Sunday afternoon.

That's fair, though I suppose the people living along the SE side of Baltimore would also appreciate fewer hazmats. Anyhow, my suggestion to NOT rebuild the bridge is complete fancy, of course. The "we WILL rebuild" rhetoric was unleashed even before the sun came up Tuesday morning. No...

Hot take: There will not be traffic nightmares as the result of this bridge collapse. As jis alludes, there is virtually no reason for thru-travelers to use the Key Bridge. I lived in SE Penna for years and often traveled through the Balt/DC area to get to NoVa, and while I used the tunnels...

OK, this is probably a more general operational question than a Cascades-specific question, but it involves a Cascades train so I'll post it here. Today's southbound 505 had some mechanical issue and arrived in Eugene 2 1/2 hours late at 4:20 p.m. This train becomes the northbound 508, which is...

I won't dispute that there's better service to NYC, but I can find at least three daily bus departures from Allentown to Philly (not one). They all seem to depart from the same place: the downtown transit center, which I wouldn't call "an obscure bus stop." Obligatory train content: One of...

Seems like a good (albeit pricey) project. It does seem like a potentially confusing situation in terms of potentially having two types of tickets to the EWR station. My guess is they will solve this by simply charging everyone the AirTrain fee regardless of whether one intends to use the...

There is still a departure that leaves just after 8 p.m. and stops only in Corvallis and Eugene. Since I was headed for Salem, it wasn't an option for me (and anyhow, I wanted to leave ASAP). Seems weird that they offer three Portland-Eugene departures daily, but two of them occur within 45...

Since there was some bus discussion upthread, thought I'd share my experience from yesterday. I arrived into PDX (airport) at 5:20 p.m. and needed to get to Salem. One might think that light rail-->Amtrak would be a good option, but no. By the time I de-planed and made it to the MAX station, it...

My last two Cascades trips (Saturday on 507 and today on 508) have featured three coaches plus a coach-in-place-of-a-cafe-car. That car has featured free snacks (mainly chips, candy and a few baked goods) plus bottled water. Unfortunately, the lack of a cafe car also means no wi-fi, which is a...

It certainly can't help that the connecting service is marketed so poorly. The City of DeKalb's bus schedule doesn't even mention the Metra connection (the only clue is that the final stop of Route 12 is the Elburn Train Station, but there's no indication of connecting service options). If you...

Having lived in the DeKalb/Sycamore area from 2000-2006, I naturally wondered why no rail service existed. However, if I were drawing it up, I'd skip the CNW station. Relatively few people need to commute to/from the downtown DeKalb business district. However: I'd put a station near the...

Also - if you're in Newport, you don't have to drive all the way to PDX to catch a flight. Eugene is half the distance, has cheaper parking and fewer traffic jams, and has a respectable-enough level of flights to make it a serviceable alternative. (That's assuming the final destination is...

Maybe some of the Cap<-->Pennsylvanian connections were rerouted via the LSL and Keystone Service? If you were headed to/from stations east of Harrisburg, it wouldn't be a terrible solution provided Amtrak communicated it to you far enough in advance.

That would be my guess as well. It's unfortunate that creative minds can't think of a way to safely load/unload passengers at EUG while on the "thru" track but I suppose for a short-term project like this it's tolerable. Since the disruption doesn't seem to affect the first-out/last-in Cascades...

This post on the Amtrak Cascades twitter account, which I'm pretty sure is run by someone at WSDOT, has waaay more information about the upcoming potential delays than the cryptic post from Amtrak that I referenced upthread.

Amtrak is warning that all trains on "the Cascade route" will experience delays of "about 30 minutes" over the next six weeks due to trackwork by "the host railroad." Let's examine how useless this announcement is: 1. There are multiple host railroads over the 400+ mile Cascades route between...