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An interesting graph: http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch3en/conc3en/usrail18402003.html

This is gonna be worse than AF447. Took roughly 2 years to find the wreckage with a much more precise record of where it crashed. This could be many more years than that. Or never.

Amtrak fans like to complain about being the poor children in the rail system. But lately, if you're not oil, you don't rate at all. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304914904579437680173044774 In fact, the rail system reminds me of an old man who ignored warnings about...

How did they depart without first arriving? And did they arrive under a false identity?

The coverage on Bloomberg says the security at the Kuala Lumpur didn't even bother to check the database of stolen passports.

And the way EB is going, even when trains are running (in a meaningful sense) the station will be pretty empty pretty much all the time.

Haha. Well, if the Empire Builder isn't there yet, why would Amtrak passengers be there. But, yeh, I took Metro Transit down there to transfer to the #54 line on West 7th. Good place to get out of the weather. Nice old building.

I figure any published schedule is a fiction that could be based on a dart board. They don't know when any train on the line will be anywhere. People need to know this and have some sort of warning system to learn where they can intersect with it. And once on, not figure anything else is as...

Avalanches must be part of the history of the route back to when the first track was laid. It is sort of piling on with all the other EB problems, but it should always have figured into people's expectations when going through a mountain range. I'll just bet every train line that runs through...

Good winter move. Pretty bad summer move. Unless you spend winter in the desert and the summer high in the mountains.

Yeh, it is pretty cold. Not historic cold, but enough cold to cause all sorts of problems. Like frostbite and gangrene. Meaning people in its path need to know things like dressing properly and paying attention to what their body parts are telling them. In some parts of the world, the whole...

Thanks, Mother Nature! You're BFF of the train traveler!

The LRT is due to take passengers there on June 14. Not sure which they want first, the depot or the LRT.

Gee, if that happened to me, I could spend the time visiting all the locations of my early childhood, where I was born, where I went to kindergarten, etc. etc. So it'll never happen, of course.

Trains is "chemins de fer" in French.

Wish I could afford the hotel I stayed in without the Amtrak voucher. One of the classiest places I ever checked into. And the restaurant was outa my class too. Still rather would have had that day in Toronto, but at least I saw more of Chicago than the train and bus stations.

Is this most TRAINS or most LINES? Chicago is pretty much the center of the whole national railroad network.

You ever see the machines that clear snow in mountain passes. I saw it in a documentary for a highway, THE main highway, that goes through the Sierra Nevada. When they are doin it, the walls of snow are something like 20 feet high!!! Made my little snow clearing job seem pretty puny.

When I resumed train travel, I wish I'd known more of this stuff. I had a long series of surprises, few of them good.

What can I say in response but "indeed!" Could be the type of business is exactly what owns most office holders lately.