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Pre-COVID, my wife and I were planning a "bucket list" trip to the UK to see family, followed by a train trip to spend a few days in Rome then travel to Barcelona where we would board a transatlantic sea voyage back home. Of course this trip has all been postponed now. To get from Paris to...

This was a while ago, but once I took Amtrak to Worcester MA (back when the Inland Route was still running) and the car rental company (I think it was Avis) provided a taxi that took me to Worcester Airport where I picked up the rental car, and the rental company paid for the cab. At that time Worce...

A second for the New London - Norwich - Worcester service that was run by PC up to the Amtrak takeover. As I recall by the end PC had moved the Worcester stop out of Union Station to an inconveniently located freight house which would have made connecting with service to Boston difficult. Also the P...

Non refundable non changeable for the cheapest tickets is fairly normal in Europe from what I've seen looking at fares for a future trip through France and Italy (that is if Coronavirus dies down before we are due to go). Everybody says we should run our trains more like the Europeans I guess in thi...

Back in the 1960's a connection was added between the inbound Cambridge - Dorchester (now Red) Line and the then NH Old Colony main just South of Columbia Station (now JFK Umass) which was used to deliver the 01400 "Bluebirds". I'm not sure how long that connection was left in, probably re...

RE British headcodes, officially called train reporting numbers, actually do have a logic to them. From Wikipedia: A train reporting number in Great Britain identifies a particular train service. It consists of: A single-digit number, indicating the class (type) of train, followed by A letter, indic...

Why not just tell people who are exiting at those stops with short platforms to go to one of the first few cars of the train, which will be alongside the platform? That's basically what's being done now at most stops; there is a "mini-high" platform that accommodates one door, and passeng...

Probably an unfair comparison in that VIA has nothing like Amtrak's NEC to help cover the inevitable LD losses. VIA is basically a few LD trains and some short distance routes around Toronto, plus the subsidized routes to places like Churchill maintained due to the lack of any alternative ground tra...

Final destination is Davisville RI.

There was a comment up thread about the advantages of SEPTA running the PATCO line. Would that even be possible given that SEPTA is set up as a state of Pennsylvania organization? I know SEPTA dips its toe into New Jersey at West Trenton (and operates in Delaware as far as Newark) but to run a rapid...

Would Brookville have the ability to gear up for the production line necessary to re-equip a system the size of Philly's? It's one thing to fulfill boutique orders for cities like Milwaukee and Detroit. The Liberty is a nice car but can it be mass produced?

Beverly has stops on both the Rockport and Newburyport lines.

This is why I advocate that Richmond trains should be shuttles, meaning no motor change, no run-through. If one train is late, the corresponding train is not held (and inconvenience even more passengers), the late passengers from the first train have to catch the next train. I guess as long as the ...

Tadman wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2019 10:55 pm I believe there was a singular incident around 1970 where PC filed to discontinue a huge number of passenger trains and that spurred congress to action.