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That makes total sense but it's kinda nuts seeing as that they never did fit, and the museum held on to them for 10-ish years. I took the chief quite a lot from 2004 to 2009 and always wondered what the cars were doing there, along with a MILW combine and a Cadillac and Lake City diner. None of whi...

The "gong" bells are similar to what you'd find at any set of grade crossing gates - nothing too rare about them. A select few cars did retain the original split windows (including at least one in blue-and-silver) but they were almost completely fogged over due to age. Some "authentic...

Hopefully IRM got some mechanical and cosmetic parts. Nope, we sure didn't. I think most of the brown and orange cars still had a lot of the IC era exterior features which were changed with the silver paint scheme. There weren't any IC-era exterior features on the orange/brown cars which the blue/s...

Not exactly an answer to the asked question, but the museum in Mendota (who got a couple brown-and-orange ones when the first round of 1200s were delivered) has sold theirs to a scrapper, who is doing their thing with the cars in a nearby industrial lot. Plainly visible to anyone taking Amtrak throu...

General AGR question: Anyone have any luck/experience booking (and paying for a trip), then "converting" it to a free trip using AGR points? I've been accumulating points via the new BoA card since the old Chase variant ceased accumulating a month ago. I should have enough for a one-way tr...

Tadman wrote:... the random orange/maroon stripes (did we steal those from the South Shore?) ...

Found a photo of the mostly-under-a-tarp #97, taken several days ago: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4313410 Kind of interesting from what can be see; you can basically figure the rest of the paint scheme out. I'm slightly curious as to whether the engineers will like these eng...

Nope. I think Linden is, and any other station that's been re-done in recent years, but the trains running the Linen - Howard routing are limited to six cars.

Occasionally - particularly during the colder months - the CTA will partner with social services organizations to try and get the homeless into shelters during conditions where they'd otherwise be at risk of lethal exposure to the elements (sub-zero temperatures, etc).

Found a photo someone else took of #526 when it was in Blue Island earlier this week: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=4296715

Regardless of which paint scheme it gets put on, these locomotives are going to look pretty bizzaro on Metra with that front porch.

The other day a part-time train enthusiast buddy of mine was visiting his sister, who has a condo overlooking the BNSF where it connects with the St. Charles Air Line; he sent me a couple photos of a METX switcher wying the 526 in that area. Altoona apparently primed it (it's white) but it was still...

I've come across an unusual situation with a roomette reservation I'd made on the Cardinal in August (which I'd made through Amtrak Guest Rewards a few months ago - NYP to CHI). This morning an AGR manager left a message indicating I should call them back, which I did; the cause for contact is that ...

Close readers may also have noticed the quote from Mr. Ellis, to the effect of "gosh, we didn't know we had to have the right parts for our brakes!" Sure, Mr. Ellis, we can understand why you might have thought you could get away with the wrong parts ... Unfortunately, this is typical of ...

Highliners are now out at IRM. They should be out at on the pit track behind barn 4, if you're out there tomorrow (well ... today).

Hmm ... something to look for on the interchange track this weekend.