Recent content by BlackDiamond

Great trip report, thanks for posting!

Not sure. I did requalify for 2024 at Seashore. Electric City in Scranton is only about an hour from where I now live, I'll have to check it out..

Hi, I was previously known as AmtrakMaineiac but since I have now relocated from Maine to the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania I felt I needed a new name. During my days at Lehigh University in the late 1960s my friends and I used to railfan the area and the now fallen flags in the area - the...

The VIA color scheme looks good on these trains.

There is also the factor that cruise lines generally provide an airport to cruise port transfer (for a price) whereas they rarely serve train stations, except maybe Penn Station NYC, do you are on your own if you arrive by train.

Could you post a link to your blog?

I wonder what happens to that vibrant inviting neighborhood when you plop a ballpark along with the acres of parking required nowadays into it.

Which means a good probability phase 2 never happens and freights continue to use the old tunnel

Thanks for researching and posting these numbers. I notice you have Wolverine in there twice, at 96% and at 88%.

Sounds like a fun trip. The Durango and Silverton is well worth the detour. How are you getting to Durango? If you rent a car, there is an Enterprise office 4 blocks from the station. The drive gets very scenic as you get closer to Durango. The mountain passes north of Silverton are not for the...

Probably motor generator sets. When I was in the Air Force Communications Service in the early 1970s we were still using a lot of ground to air radios from the Korean War era such as the GRC-27 that were vacuum tube and use MG sets usually Dynamotors with the motor and generator combined into...

Looking at the data on Juckins.net for arrivals of train 280 on Sunday for the last 4 months the average delay is 6 minutes. The worst for the last 4 months is 52 minutes. That and one of 27 min were the only significant delays.

One of only two that are currently flyable left. This would be cool to see. I will be in the Lehigh Valley that weekend but Unfortunately tied up with my move. B-29 Doc, a Superfortress bomber from WWII, set to land in the Lehigh Valley If I had $1200 burning a hole in my pocket I might...

Nice article with a good overview of current and future Brightline service.

I seem to recall that some of the later broadcasts of this episode on PBS had some sort of disclaimer to the effect of "Amtrak is much better now than what is shown on this video".