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I arrive at Narita on Dec 28th and my room at the Hotel Intergate near Tokyo Station is only booked through the 31st due to New Years booking the hotel up solid on the 31st. Does anyone have a favorite hotel near Kyoto Station/Japan Rail in Kyoto? Any tips on how to book a seemless JR trip...

That an 8 car train is considered a "mini" in India speaks volumes. Even if the US/Amtrak/Brightline doubled or tripled the rolling stock in use in the US, and even if new Brightline-owned tracks were laid, and even if they found a way to get the freight railroads to give Amtrak/Brightline the...

I do not speak Italian but the Italia Rail website makes it really easy to get exactly the seat you want, and fast, too. I wanted to splurge so I got the first class ticket and I got the seat by itself so I would not have a seat mate. They have 1x2 seating and you can choose your seat for just...

I finally got tickets on the new'ish #10 trainset! Woohoo! Just got my 12 Go Asia ticket at the Bossotel across the street from the station. New routine but it works well. The only hard copy ticket is a tiny nondescript thing, hope the conductor let's me board! I am more than an hour early so...

Well, we are getting a bustitution to Goulburn, THEN boarding the Indian Pacific. I will try to download photos but not sure if I will have a connection.

I am taking a long RTW trip starting in late September and should be arriving in Sydney in November. Are there any events in Sydney, Adelaide or Perth I should try to time my trip to complement? If I want to do a stopover part way through the trip, is Adelaide the best place to stop off? The...

Dang. Is there a protected spot for the engineer to hunker down in when he sees that he is going to hit a truck like this? I always wonder if locomotive designers design the underside of the engineers "dashboard/workstation" with a padded/reinforced lining to protect the engineer in case of a...

I noticed this article about Amtrak making a deal with CP for service between Detroit and Toronto via Windsor a couple days ago but didn't see any post regarding it. Is this a big deal? It seems kind of cool. How will they handle the border crossing? Have Canadian border guards at the Detroit...

I have never taken the Acela and want to do so before it gets retired so I have whipped up a quick trip to New York to kill a few birds with one stone. I figure I will ride the NEC up there, take the Staten Island Ferry, see the Statue of Liberty at a reasonably "short" distance of half a mile...

I was checking out a very nice small museum dedicated to the Milwaukee Road in Harlowton Montana when I saw a diorama of the Milwaukee Road station on Everett Street. It was donated by the family of James Hamre in his memory. 13 of James Hamre’s family members worked for the Milwaukee Road back...

Musk announced recently that the Boring Company had reduced the price of tunneling from $1Bn a mile to $10Mn for a 1.14 mile section of tunnel. It is kind of apples to oranges since the tunnels he was comparing to were larger (28'?) than the 14' bore that Godot produces, which when finished...

Not sure how many different agencies and organizations were at the meeting Thursday night, but they appear to have narrowed the choices from 5 to 2. Both call for increasing the 2 rail tracks between L'Enfant (LE) and Rosslyn (RO) interlocking to 4 tracks. The only difference is one plan calls...

I thought this was way down on the "maybe someday" list, but WTOP seems to think that the funding is mostly in place and that this 15 minute from DC to Baltimore MagLev train is actually going to happen. It accelerates to 300+ mph in just 3 minutes and may make just one stop at BWI. It is...

I got what I think is a really good deal from DC to Williston for next month, just $458 for coach on the Cap Limited to Chicago plus a roomette from Chicago to Williston on the Empire Builder. I am pretty stoked for the trip to start, but I ended up being assigned #13 and when I did a search on...

I am thinking about changing my flight from DC to Billings Montana to a trip via the Capital Limited and the Empire Builder to Williston and then renting a car. I don't mind the first night in Coach but I will be taking a roomette on the Builder. I think I know the answer is "both" but Amsnag is...

I just checked on the status of the EB's because I am thinking about using it to get to Malta in May, and I was surprised to see that 2 are on time, one is 1 minute late, and 1 (#7) is 12 minutes late out of Minot. Have the severe delays been reduced frequently or is this a one off that I can't...

Are most freight trains still limited to 79 mph? Will they form rolling backups even more effectively as more and more sections of Amtrak see speed limits rise to 95 mph or, maybe, even 110 mph? Would double tracking more areas be enough to minimize the interference or would it work better for...