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I hope they do that. I would just couple the Borealis and the Hiawatha together south of Milwaukee, leave the current Hiawtha...

There is a big problem there and it is replicated across NYS state every single day. A booked Borealis may run at best half full north...

I am not from the midwest, but from NJ. I am no Gen-Z'r, but a mid-Baby Boomer. I don't know what "regional" food is there, and I don't...

Impact is exactly the same. A pair of trains were cancelled, and it took overnight to send each train back to where it came from...

Leave the trains where they are, then couple to the rear of the following day's train and proceed.

Given anything resembling the current Vermonter timetable, which would have it arriving St Albans from Montreal at 9am, and departing...

I never suggested that VIA's crewing has any impact on this. VIA has nothing to do with this.

I would have the Springfield crew run to White River Junction, and a Montreal based crew employed by Amtrak run down to WRJ. Many years...

In a word, No. VIA trains are crewed by their own people, and lack a position called "conductor". The engineer actually handles checked...

There are more issues with using Springfield, MA crews into Canada such as learning French, Canadian railroad regs, qualify for the...

The CV/NECR side of the insulated rail joints and longer cross ties has the grade crossing, yet the crossing sign says to call CN for...

The point made about the remote Quebec trains is they had been over-nighted to avoid high daytime temperatures on CN's other lousy...

The majority of it is welded rail. I once read somewhere there are no rail anchors at all on this route regardless. There are 10...

Of course. Wednesday's train never left Montreal due to mechanical, though passengers were bussed. Somehow they scrounged up equipment...

I don't know about great performance. Right now, 63 is an hour late by Harmon. There was no 68 yesterday out of Montreal: "Service...