Whats wrong with the track condition? Thats a BNSF or CP mainline…don’t they keep their ROW in tip top shape?
Whats wrong with the track condition? Thats a BNSF or CP mainline…don’t they keep their ROW in tip top shape?
Whats wrong with the track condition? Thats a BNSF or CP mainline…don’t they keep their ROW in tip top shape?
Whats wrong with the track condition? Thats a BNSF or CP mainline…don’t they keep their ROW in tip top shape?
Whats wrong with the track condition? Thats a BNSF or CP mainline…don’t they keep their ROW in tip top shape?
Whats wrong with the track condition? Thats a BNSF or CP mainline…don’t they keep their ROW in tip top shape?
Whats wrong with the track condition? Thats a BNSF or CP mainline…don’t they keep their ROW in tip top shape?
Whats wrong with the track condition? Thats a BNSF or CP mainline…don’t they keep their ROW in tip top shape?
Whats wrong with the track condition? Thats a BNSF or CP mainline…don’t they keep their ROW in tip top shape?
What a disgraceful way to run a premier Amtrak train. Why should anyone want to pay a premium in a sleeper to take such a lack luster operation. Very sad indeed.
I took the Empire Builder last June. It was my first overnight Amtrak experience. It was a great trip from Chicago out to Seattle. Food was excellent and the service on board was truly of the highest possible standard. Catch was teh train left Chicago 4 hours later because of problems with two dining cars. Obviously, there are problems with maintaining teh Amtrak fleet. Bad weather just makes teh problem worse if not impossible. I would love to do the trip again or maybe another train. And yes I am a Canadain so I know about freeezzzing cold weather.
sorry fellow fans, but this is an agrument against long-distance passanger trains in the us under current conditions.
if you can’t supply the goods, get out of the business!
When a person submits the same comment 21 times it makes me wonder what the monitors of this site monitor.
Many years ago, Southern “justified” train-off petitions to the old ICC by running trains from nowhere to nowhere else with no riders. Running cross country with virtually no amenities could be argued to be an easy way to do the same–especially in the winter in the northwestern USA.
My Dad was a fireman then a Hoghead for the Great Northern and worked the Empire Builder many times. Back then the equipment was worse and the weather just as bad. His motto was: “If you get where you were going on the day you wanted, then you’re not late”.
For those who can’t get beyond page 1, you didn’t miss much. Just Michael Wellborn from So. Cakkelacky trying to figure out how to make a comment, very unsuccessfully.
Maybe if you download a newer version of Explorer you will be able to get past page 1.
And speaking of dementia, I think Mr. Selden from Minnesota suffers from it. The NEC is the only part of Amtrak that if it was shutdown, any appreciable portion of the population would miss. LD trains could be gone tomorrow and few people would care.
It sounds like Amtrak is not managing their resources very well. Maybe instead of ordering 40+ baggage cars and new diners they should be ordering new coaches. You can not increase ridership without coaches! New sleepers would also help. Passengers aren’t going to ride in baggage cars!