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  1. gmushial

    Where to park a car, with connections to CZ?

    Situation: my brother's car has gone to that great junkyard in the sky unexpectedly ;-) ;-( (he's on LI, and I'm on the other coast) and I'm looking for a place on the Amtrak system where I can take an extra one from my driveway, drive it and leave it at said station, and take the CZ and...
  2. gmushial

    #5(20) can't buy a break?

    Anyone have any idea as to what happened for #5(20) btwn Creston and Hastings - seems that for each of the legs btwn the two it lost about 40 minutes per hour of travel time. I can understanding waiting once or twice for a freight to pass; or maybe a tree down; or a single mechanical problem...
  3. gmushial

    Bringing food / Having food brought to the train

    It seems that I might have been the last one to come to the party... I had been talking about having a food delivery service [one of those companies which brings ordered food from restaurants, nominally to home] bring food to the CZ in GJT. So... last night I emailed the three services that...
  4. gmushial

    Positive article w/re Amtrak vs flying cattlecars

    I came across this on Salon this morning - seems the author had a better time on the Amtrak part of their trip vs the flying cattlecar part (big surprise for us here... but seems to be a different spin on the Amtrak experience as voiced by all to many articles one sees around)...
  5. gmushial

    ;-) If the train's late - do I have to pay more? ;-)

    ;-) ON If I bought a ticket for a 40 hour CZ ride, and it lasted 44 hours, ie, arrived 4 hrs late :-) am I expected to pay an additional 10%? ;-) ... After all: If I buy 10 laps at Nurburgring ($32/lap) but went for 11 (just couldn't call it quits after 10), they would charge me an...
  6. gmushial

    If you had to clean your own window, what would you bring?

    The last time on the CZ I found a nice coach seat with a full window (not a half-window) and even on the right (desired) side of the train... only to realize after the fact that the window was covered with ??? hair oil, or something, that made taking pictures almost impossible. I know I can't...
  7. gmushial

    "Free 4G WiFi on All Amtrak California Trains"

    Quoting from an email I received this morning (from Cal Amtrak)... seems part of the passenger train world is moving, has moved, in a positive direction. :-) And the fact that such is the top bullet item as to why I should ride Amtrak California over the holidays: I think they've heard from...
  8. gmushial

    Engine repair shop in Topeka KS?

    It looks like I'm going to get to ride the SWC to TOP in a couple weeks :-) (RDD-LAX-TOP... OMA-SAC-RDD home on the CZ/CS)... and in my looking into what to do in Topeka I stumbled across what looks like a large engine/loco repair shop just north of the Amtrak station (at 1st St, where Amtrak...
  9. gmushial

    Where is transmitter? Separate systems: UP / Amtrak?

    When I'm at home listening to the scanner, the only channel I hear traffic on is AAR80 (161.310mhz) - what I'm hearing is dispatch traffic from the UP dispatcher and traffic from the engine/crew back. My question is: I'm assuming that UP and Amtrak operate as separate entities, ie, there is UP...
  10. gmushial

    Scanner for use on Amtrak trains

    There are many here that are scanner knowledgeable. I have a RS pro-405 scanner that I use to listen to UP trains coming into town - but being a base using, taking it on a train wouldn't be terribly viable (besides being 15 year old technology, there's got to be better choices). What I think I'm...
  11. gmushial

    Related to: Why Americans don't ride trains

    The CZ #5 of the 19th of this month was a pretty full train - believe I heard some of the Amtrak crew talk about it being sold out btwn DEN and SLC... and it felt full, ie, there wasn't a lot of free space for anything - best to hunker down in one's seat and stay there [sSL was always full...
  12. gmushial

    Automated FRA rail measuring car??

    I came back to DAV from OMA on the CZ of the 19th and there was what I thought was private varnish at the head of the consist. I asked the conductor about it and he said that in fact it was an experimental FRA car that in realtime via lasers did rail separation and surface condition/roughness...
  13. gmushial

    Davis CA - parking location

    Might somebody be so kind as to identify the Amtrak longterm parking in the image; and likewise, the city owned longterm overflow parking? many thanks - greg
  14. gmushial

    50 States, in 50 days, in 30 days??

    I'm wondering if there isn't a different mode of use for the Amtrak rolling stock... anyone familiar with "TheWorld" - a 700ft-ish cruise liner, which has been converted from 800 8x10ft rooms, to 160ft sea worth apartments? Where TheWorld basically moves from ocean to ocean 24/7/365 and one...
  15. gmushial

    Private Cars??

    I've now read a couple times in the forum threads about "private cars." I've got some questions about such... is a private car truly a privately owned rail car - I presume a "passenger car," though probably made out to be a rolling hotel room? Or, is there no single definition of a private car...
  16. gmushial

    CZ load differences btwn May and August

    When I road the CZ from Sacramento to Lincoln the 2nd week of May (in coach), at SAC one had their pick of seats, and other than families that wanted to share double seats, everyone got a double seat to themselves - which made sleeping that night a lot easier. Even after we picked up passengers...
  17. gmushial

    Pictures from Rear of Train??

    All the pictures I took from my California Zephyr trip were out the side window and most looked pretty obvious that they were through such. But when I look at other's pictures from the same train, I find lots what appear to be out a window at the rear of the train (and directly down the rails...
  18. gmushial

    Showers in or around Sacramento Amtrak Station?

    I road the California Zephyr from Sacramento to Lincoln NE in May - a most pleasant ride - and am planning on doing the reverse in August. I only had a coach seat - which was more than adequate for my needs, plus I enjoyed the socializing it engendered... but by the time I got to Lincoln, even...
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