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Re: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings)

 by bostontrainguy ¦  Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:51 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529530

Well that is pretty interesting.

Airos are going to have full cafes: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52564860912_41faeefc4c_b.jpg Cascades cafe car by Washington State Dept of Transportation , on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/wsdot/albums/72177720304469861/with/52565775500 Looks like 1/3 (?) of car is coach or business ...

So nothing is going out of there by rail right now, right?

Re: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing

 by bostontrainguy ¦  Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:08 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing ¦  Replies: 101 ¦  Views: 6717

When my kids were younger, we would always try to get seats facing each other with a table in between if we could (this was on the Acelas) or spent a lot of time in the cafe cars at a table, and my wife I still prefer to travel that way, so I'm looking forward to rear facing seats in the Airo train...

There is a wild rumor going around Billerica that with the Casco dredging CN is interested is redeveloping the old BM Baked Bean plant and the adjacent marina into a new container port. They would buy back and run the GT the whole way. I'm sure CSX would love that to happen right in their new back ...

Re: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing

 by bostontrainguy ¦  Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:06 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing ¦  Replies: 101 ¦  Views: 6717

We're talking about the Regional here. What's the average trip length on this route? 2 hours? Who cares? What diner? I hear you but which seat would you rather sit in for two hours: girl in seat.jpg seats.jpg Report from reddit: The new Venture car seats are TERRIBLE Trip Reports I took my first ri...

Re: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing

 by bostontrainguy ¦  Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:43 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing ¦  Replies: 101 ¦  Views: 6717

Really? You really think any appreciable number of people are going to stop taking the train because of this? It's kind of an accumulation thing. I can take Amtrak, drive or fly. I really like taking Amtrak. It's a nice experience. Sure the employees can be rather surly and it's kind of slow, but t...

Re: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing

 by bostontrainguy ¦  Thu Mar 07, 2024 1:28 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing ¦  Replies: 101 ¦  Views: 6717

It's not about the time in operation... it's about repair costs. Seats with fewer moving parts will cost less in terms of downtime and parts over the 10-15 years that will elapse between cabin overhaul. Sent from my SM-S911U using Tapatalk In all my years of following everything passenger rail, I h...

Re: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing

 by bostontrainguy ¦  Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:55 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing ¦  Replies: 101 ¦  Views: 6717

As built Amfleet and Horizon coaches had reversible seats but these are the OLD Cars. The new Airo fleet and others will have fixed seating - the NEW Cars. Seems like a majority of Amtrak passengers prefer facing in the direction of travel. Heaven forbid the OLD Cars would be preferable to the NEW ...

Re: Wisconsin Talgos Disposition - MI and now Pacific Surfliner

 by bostontrainguy ¦  Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:08 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Wisconsin Talgos Disposition - MI and now Pacific Surfliner ¦  Replies: 582 ¦  Views: 172898

Glad to see them survive and being used but they sure deserve a better fate than this.

Re: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing

 by bostontrainguy ¦  Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:13 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing ¦  Replies: 101 ¦  Views: 6717

Wow, I didn't realize one could fill 5 pages and counting dissecting the pros and cons of which way seats face on a train. Wait until you find out that even some planes have seats facing backwards! The blasphemy! Motion sickness is caused by visual disorientation affecting the inner ear. Not much v...

Re: Siemens to manufacture 83 Airo Intercity Trainsets for Amtrak: Design, Delivery, Acceptance

 by bostontrainguy ¦  Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:05 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing ¦  Replies: 101 ¦  Views: 6717

Per the NTSB report on the December 2017 crash at the Point Defiance Bypass failure of the rotating seat locks was the direct cause of some passenger's injuries and caused seats to block isles, preventing egress following the accident. That report lists a number of times when the failure of the sea...

Re: Siemens to manufacture 83 Airo Intercity Trainsets for Amtrak: Design, Delivery, Acceptance

 by bostontrainguy ¦  Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:02 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing ¦  Replies: 101 ¦  Views: 6717

All of these FRA dream trains will have backwards seating. Unless of course they go with my brilliant idea of just runnig a loop from Pocatello through Flint, Huntsville, Joplin, Merced, and back to Pocatello. :-) :-) :-) https://railfan.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/rfr-nationalnetwork-800.png I ...

Re: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing

 by bostontrainguy ¦  Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:56 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing ¦  Replies: 101 ¦  Views: 6717

Watch out Amtrak. Some people with severe motion sickness can be considered as having a disability. Lawsuits coming?

Re: Siemens to manufacture 83 Airo Intercity Trainsets for Amtrak: Design, Delivery, Acceptance

 by bostontrainguy ¦  Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:06 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing ¦  Replies: 101 ¦  Views: 6717

Rotating seats have been used around the world with no problem. I do remember something about people being fatally injured in a Sightseer Lounge due to unlockable loose swivel seats but this is rare and those seats are unique scenic perches. You can't provide 100% safety on a train. People are kille...

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