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The sale of CSX's line across the Florida panhandle to a short line has doomed any resumption of the Sunset or an extension of the CONO. New Orleans to Mobile will have to suffice.

The U.S. was once prepared to switch to the metric system, but the Reagan administration killed that effort --- and it's never been brought up since that time. Good luck with switching the U.S. to a 24-hour clock.

You could buy all your tickets at Millenium if time permits. Attitude of the ticket agent will vary.


55th-56th=57th Street would be a better place to wait between trains. It's much busier than 59th and is physically a nicer place. You shouldn't have any problems.

Except for your initial trip from Millenium Station, feel free to buy your Metra Electric tickets from the conductor. Everytime I ride ME from a non-downtown station, I just buy my ticket from the conductor with my senior card. Since you can't buy a senior ticket from the ticket machine, there's no ...

OK, so here's an idea. Any Detroit-Toronto service through the rail tunnel would require a new Windsor station for VIA, plus the total reconstruction of what is now an industrial track between the CP and the VIA routes. How about a dedicated bus from Detroit (either the current Amtrak station or a r...

I think a smart lawyer could get around the fine print on the back of the ticket.

Wouldn't it be simpler just to build a small new station? Why close a going business just to get ahold of an old building that probably has all kinds of problems?

It look like Gov. Holcomb has "taken over" the South Shore. Along with putting up money for the West Lake Corridor and the double track project, the composition of the NICTD board has been changed. Previously, the board consisted of 11 members appointed by the governor and the four countie...

In the age of Trump, Republicans don't seem to have problem with deficit spending, check out the tax reform bill.

I don't know about a 28-hour "day." but didn't CSX once schedule six days of trains over seven days. In other words, it took seven days to handle six days worth of work.

Since emerging-market countries (is that the politically correct term?) now have high-speed trains, and countries like the US have typically sold their old trains to emerging-market countries in the past, perhaps the Acelas could be sold to a railroad in an emerging-market country? Most of these &q...

Please, this is all about Trump punishing his "enemies," i.e those people who disagree with him and the states that didn't vote for him. DOT's action took place after California's new governor removed National Guard troops from "Wall" duty.

Rebuilding a bunch of old freight locomotives? I suppose it's better than having the current fleet break down, but it's only a stop gap measure. Time to get a transportation funding bill going in Illinois.

That’s what I do mean, Tad, not using “rare birds” but a standardized fleet such as NCDOT runs. Friends of the 261 once leased cars to NCDOT if I’m not mistaken, for instance, and Iowa Pacific ran their own cars in daily service so would (have been) a source of active passenger cars. Do any of thes...

I'm not sure why starting new corridor service has to equal a decrease or end to long distance trains. Any new corridor trains would require state support, so it's not like the funding is coming out of the same pot. And, of course, you'd have to get those southern and southwest states to sponsor the...